Innovating and Digitalising English Classes keeping learners at the core (Ideas, ICT tools and practices to enhance creativity and cooperation)

INSEGNARE E APPRENDERE LE LINGUE STRANIERE

Nell’ambito delle attività promosse da IPRASE per lo sviluppo professionale continuo del docente, il progetto “Insegnare e Apprendere le Lingue Straniere” propone azioni di formazione e ricerca per l'aggiornamento e lo sviluppo delle competenze linguistiche e metodologico - didattiche dei docenti di lingua straniera e CLIL di ogni ordine e grado con l’ obiettivo di promuovere l’innovazione dei processi di insegnamento/apprendimento delle lingue. Il progetto realizza: iniziative dedicate ai docenti di lingua inglese, tedesca, francese e spagnola; iniziative di carattere trasversale per l'insegnamento delle lingue straniere; iniziative per i docenti interessati all' insegnamento/apprendimento integrato di lingua straniera (inglese o tedesco) e contenuto accademico (CLIL).

Innovating and Digitalising English Classes keeping learners at the core (Ideas, ICT tools and practices to enhance creativity and cooperation)- Primary School Edition

Innovating and Digitalising English Classes keeping learners at the core (Ideas, ICT tools and practices to enhance creativity and cooperation)- Upper and Lower Secondary School Edition

This hands-on course is meant to give English teachers the opportunity to plan, create and delivery lessons where ICT tools help them achieve the learning intentions they have set (i.e., launching and monitoring projects, carry out assessment for learning..) while enhancing cooperation and creativity amongst learners.

Self-assessment of their own IT competence will underpin the grouping of participants (“explorers/ integrators” or “pioneers”) both during “live” sessions and in the breakouts rooms, in order to enable them to work together within the most appropriate learning area.

The workshop-style approach of the course will also promote collaborations amongst the participants, not only in terms of selecting the most appropriate tools but also by means of creating templates, materials and setting projects suitable for their own context . As a result they will gain expertise with ICT-enhanced activities, innovating pedagogies and collaborative tasks.

The selected tools used by the teachers during the course will all be GDPR compliant, so to be used by both teachers and learner, free of charge and both inclusive and easy to use.

By the end of this course, the participants will have enhanced their planning skills in selecting the most suitable ICT tool(s) to create or adapt activities and resources, actively engaging students in their learning process.

Moreover, they will have increased their own bank of templates and resources.

The course will help the participants to:

• Identify the main steps to set a project, monitor it and carry out in-between assessment for learning;

• Explore digital tools to brainstorm and collect ideas, create materials (slides, screencasts, infographics…), launch/monitor projects;

• Digitally enhancing cooperation and creativity amongst learners ( digital storytelling-related ideas);

• Design a project/a set of lessons by working in groups and using selected ICT tools.

Workshop schedule

1. Launching and monitoring a project

     a. implement brainstorming on and design of digitally-enhanced projects

     b. plan a project working both collaboratively and creatively (i.e., topic selection and groupmaking)

     c. implement peer-to-peer feedback

2. Presentation and authoring tools

   a. design engaging and inclusive presentations while working collaboratively

   b. compare presentation tools to select the most goal appropriate

3. The collaborative power of digitally-enhanced storytelling

   a. design digitally-enhanced creative storytelling based on cooperation

   b. formulate ideas and possible use of creative writing in your classroom

4. Making videos and creating digital books

   a. create videos quickly via easy-to-use tools

   b. select and compare tools to create booklets and deliverables

5. Wrapping up and wise use of AI

   a. use AI to speed up material creation for teachers

   b. collect and share ideas and resources

See course details embedded into the INFOGRAPHIC and the INTERACTIVE PICTURE

ANNA RANERI 

Teacher training and development specialist, current post graduate research student and former English and English Literature teacher

• Qualified teacher of English as a Foreign Language and English Literature after 2-year postgraduate course (entitled to teach both in Italy and in the UK)

• Specializes in teaching English to Adult Learners after Cambridge CELTA course and MicroMaster in Learning Design at the University of Maryland Global Campus

• Specializes in the use of ICT tools for content creation and lesson delivery also a Google-certified educator (level 2)

• Has taught for more than 16 years both in Italy and in the UK to teenage and adult learners also being in charge of teacher training innovation a d assessment (Liceo Giordano Bruno, Turin, Italy)

• has been training international teacher on Erasmus mobility, newly hired and in service primary, upper and lower secondary school (integrating Assessment of and for Learning, technology-enhanced teaching and learning, assessment, CLIL, and content creation, sustainability and Agenda 2030)

• Has been working with a primary school team of teachers to customise assessment and observation rubrics while planning multi-subject learnig units on selected Global Goals

• (Has created asynchronous courses on Agenda 2030 and Digital Backpack for Teachers for IPRASE)

• is currently a post graduate research student at CRELLA ( Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment )University of Bedfordshire (UK) to investigate on integrated feeback and its impact on English essay writing (IELTS Academic)

• is currently involved in a project as a Research and Teacher Development Specialist with an NGO supporting two emergency schools (West Syria and DCR) and one international school (Kenya)