Teaching Through Music & Visual Art
COURSE DATES AND FEES
| COD. | Arrive |
Depart |
Fees |
| TMV 30 | 20/07/08 |
02/08 |
Euro 1140 |
Who is this course for?
• Experienced native and non-native teachers who teach young adults and adults.
• You need an intermediate level of English or above to participate in this course.
• Please note that this course is not specifically designed for teachers of young learners. (Pre teens)
Course Summary
This course has been designed for experienced teachers (with 3 years' + teaching experience). The course aims to give teachers an insight into how they can integrate music and art into their teaching so as to stimulate learners desire to learn and to open often unexpected channels into mind, body, and spirit connections.
It is designed for teachers who are looking for new dimensions in their teaching.
As this is a methodology course, the approaches to teaching and learning will also be of interest not only to teachers of English but teachers of other languages. Occasionally, the course attracts native-speaking teachers from the U.K..
What are the key course contents?
Topics include:
• Using art as a stimulus for task based learning and integrated skills teaching
• Putting life into course book exercises and filling in the gaps often missing in the course book content.
• Using music in as an aid to classroom management and for working with different levels of energy throughout the day.
• Ways of using the arts to enable more effective learning with “difficult” or unmotivated students.
• Using music to enhance areas of learning such as pronunciation, vocabulary, and fluency practice.
• Using art and music as a basis for storytelling, drama and movement
• Introductions to one or more of the following approaches to teaching and learning: Multiple Intelligence, Psychodrama Linguistic, Task Based Learning Suggestopedia.
Is this the right course for me?
• Yes, if you are an experienced teacher who wants to participate on a course which will both widen your range of teaching options and promote your own creative abilities.
• Yes, if you want to participate in a course committed to humanistic principles and approaches.
If this is not the right course for you, please consider one of the following:
• Teaching English Through Multiple Intelligences - a course which investigates both the theory of Multiple Intelligences and provides you with approaches to teaching different learner styles more effectively.
• Secondary Teaching or Methodology and Language for Primary Teachers if you want a course more specifically guided towards a specific age group.
Recommended reading: Please note it is not necessary to buy or bring these books to the course.
•Creative Resources” J. Feher and B. Tsai (IAL) 2004
•Music and Song” T. Murphy (OUP) 1992
•The Mind’s Eye” A. Maley, A. Duff, F. Grellet (CUP) 1980
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact our agent in Italy :
Addestramento linguistico professionale
Via Baertsch, 4
24124 Bergamo
Tel. 035 363325
Fax 035 3694 091
Email info@corsidiinglese.it
http://www.corsidiinglese.it
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact our agent in Italy :
Addestramento linguistico professionale
Via Baertsch, 4
24124 Bergamo
Tel. 035 363325
Fax 035 3694 091
Email info@corsidiinglese.it
http://www.corsidiinglese.it
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