Learning through language: the changing role of teachers

Learning through language: the changing role of teachers

 

St. Peter’s School, Barcelona, 3rd and 4th March 2017
www.stpeters.es/LTL17

Invitation
General theme and subthemes
Programme
• Website programme
•  Conference Structure, Language And Recognition Of Credits
Organising Institutions
Contact us
Registrations

Invitation

St. Peter’s School believes international collaboration among institutions, schools and universities to be of the utmost importance nowadays to promote and improve professional development and build bridges between interested parties. After having worked and collaborated with national and international universities and schools for many years, we have decided it is time to create a forum in which to share our experiences.

The event is supported by the Col·legi de Doctors i Llicenciats en Filosofia i Lletres and the Asociación de Colegios Privados e Independientes (CICAE). It will be the first edition of the conference Learning Language: the changing role of teachers.

Within a complex global society, traditional views on language teaching are under review at all levels of the educational establishment. This conference aims to create a forum in which to share different approaches and aspects of classroom practice. The intention is that educators can draw upon examples of successful learning experiences, in order to reflect upon and find meaningful responses for their own particular contexts.

This meeting will be an excellent opportunity to exchange different points of view with colleagues and discover new international experiences.

The conference has the support of the Spanish Ministry of Education, as well as the presence of many universities and schools with whom St. Peter’s School has been working.

We encourage you to attend the conference and participate in this first edition of LtL: the changing role of teachers and contribute to the improvement and innovation in teaching through language.

During the conference we will be focusing on the following areas:

How do we deal with linguistic diversity? Can a challenge become a resource? How can we create relevant educational experiences for an increasingly multi-modal environment? To what extent are different modes of communication, including visual, gestural, digital and programming incorporated into traditional alphabetical/oral texts? How can mathematical or musical language enhance communicative experiences? Which approaches to teaching optimize use of both academic and social language acquisition? What are the effects on the role of the teacher? Who is the teacher? How can we best serve the teaching profession through initial training and continuing professional development?

General theme and subthemes

The general theme of the Conference is Learning through Language: the changing role of teachers. Within a complex global society, traditional views on language teaching are under review at all levels of the educational establishment. This conference aims to create a forum in which to share different approaches and aspects of classroom practice. The intention is that educators can draw upon examples of successful learning experiences, in order to reflect upon and find meaningful responses for their own particular contexts.

However, during the conference we will be focusing on the following subthemes:

  • How do we deal with linguistic diversity?  Can a challenge become a resource?
  • How can we create relevant educational experiences for an increasingly multi-modal environment? To what extent are different modes of communication, including visual, gestural, digital incorporated into traditional alphabetical/oral texts? How can mathematical or musical language enhance communicative experiences?
  • Which approaches to teaching optimize use of both academic and social language acquisition? What can cross-curricular project-based learning contribute?

Programme

Friday 3rd March

15:00: Registration

15:30: Welcoming session

Carme Escorcia, University Programme, St. Peter’s School

Richard Rooze, Director, British Council Barcelona

16:00:  Opening Lecture

Olga Esteve Ruescas,  Pompeu Fabra, Department of Translation and Language Sciences

Maria González Davies, FPCEE Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull

17:00: Coffee break

17:15-18:30: Parallel workshops

Project Based Learning, Sinead Mc Loughin, St. Peter’s School

Maths challenge, Catherine Delaney, St. Peter’s School

Teach less, learn more, Scott Santos, St. Peter’s School

Outdoor journeys, Katerina Pata, St. Peter’s School

Differentiating for children, Lucy Armstrong, St. Peter’s School

Multilingualism: challenges in the classroom, Susanna Franco

18:45-19:30: Lecture. Language awareness in the classroom

Jane  Mitchell-Smith,  Foundation Stage Director, St. Peter’s School

Saturday, 4th March

9:00h: Parallel workshops

Synthetic phonics, St. Peter’s School

Research on Multilingualism & Language Acquisition, M. Joan Birulés, UB

Digital literacy, Ms. Carme Escorcia, St. Peter’s School

Music and Language, Ms. Jenny Shaw, St. Peter’s School

CLIL, Jo Gore, British Council Barcelona

Drama, Ms. Róisin Barbeito and Sam Kane, St. Peter’s School

Empowering students with short video, Pearson

10:45: Sharing learning experiences 

Colegio San Patricio, Colegio Mirabal, Colegio La Miranda Global School, Colegio Luis Vives, Colegio San José de Calasanz

12:15: Break

12:30: Panel discussion: LTL, the changing role of teachers

Cristina Escobar,  Language and Literature Didactics Department, UAB

Ferran Pons, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology

Robert Izquierdo and Dr. Florià Belinchon, Language and Literature Didactics Department, University of Lleida

Núria Hernández, English language and CLIL teacher, Escola Pia Caldes

Jo Gore, British Council

14:00: Lunch

15:30: Lecture: Language Acquisition & Mulitilingualism

Ferran Pons, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona

16:30: Networking and closure

Conference structure, language and recognition of credits

The conference structure will be as follows:

  •  Three plenary sessions on the conference theme
  • Two rounds of six parallel workshops
  • One sharing experiences session
  • One panel discussion session.

Language

The conference language will be English.

Recognition of credits

This activity is officially recognised by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Recognised credits: 10. All the participants will be given an attendance certificate.

Organising institutions

The event is organised by St. Peter’s School Barcelona (www.stpeters.es)

With the support of:

Ministry of Education of Spain

Associations

  • Col·legi de Doctors i Llicenciats en Filosofia i Lletres i en Ciències de Catalunya
  • CICAE, Asociación de Colegios Privados e Independientes

With the participation of the following universities, schools and other educational institutions

Universities

  • Faculty of Psychology, Sciences of Education and Sport, Blanquerna, University Ramon Llull
  • Faculty of Sciences of Education, Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona.
  • Faculty of Education, Psychology and Social Work, University of Lleida

Schools

  • Colegio San Patricio
  • Colegio Mirabal
  • Colegio La Miranda Global School
  • Colegio Luis Vives
  • Colegio San José de Calasanz

Other educational institutions

British Council
Pearson

Contact us

For further information about the conference, please go to www.stpeters.es/LTL17 or contact Carme Escorcia or Joan Rovira Sanz at ltlcongress@stpeters.escescorcia@stpeters.es or jrovirasanz@stpeters.es

Should you need further information on registrations and payement, please send an email to matricula@cdl.cat

Registrations

Individual registrations

Group Registration: please send us an email to matricula@cdl.cat

   Fees After 31/01/2017
Attendant 120€
CICAE or CDL members 100€
Degree or master student 60€
St. Peter’s Former Pupil send us an email to ltlcongress@stpeters.es 50€
Prices include meals and refreshements
Registration Form

Los colegiados que deseen beneficiarse del precio especial deben llamar al teléfono 915224597 para formalizar la inscripción

Más info: http://www.consejogeneralcdl.es/learning-through-language-the-changing-role-of-teachers/

 

 
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