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.es, cescorcia@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 |
Los colegiados que deseen beneficiarse del precio especial deben llamar al teléfono 915224597 para formalizar la inscripción