Trainers

• Ana Nunes
• David Valente
• Helena Soares
• Nayr Ibrahim
• Sandie Mourão
• Sónia Ferreirinha

About this Course

Contents

- Intercultural Citizenship through sessions developed around the concepts of culture, intercultural communicative competence and citizenship education.

- Picturebooks as aesthetic objects through sessions which focus on understanding what a picturebook is and how the pictures, words and design support the meaning-making process.

- Picturebook read-alouds and mediation through a session which highlights strategies and approaches for giving picturebook read-alouds that enable interaction and discussion, key to the mediation  process.

- Picturebook selection through a session which involves using the Picturebook Selection Guide for prompting refl ection around the potential certain picturebooks might have for intercultural citizenship.

- Creating resources through sessions which involve participants looking closely at a model ICEKit to support their understanding of how to develop a set of principled materials based on a selected picturebook for intercultural citizenship.

- Reflecting and reviewing through a session which contributes to participants’ understanding of the refl ecting and reviewing process to support intercultural citizenship in their classrooms.

- eTwinning through a session which introduces this online platform and demonstrates its potential to set up future communities of practice and intercultural citizenship projects.

Objectives

At the end of the ICEPro Course participants will be able to:

- Equip practitioners with the competences to promote a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning with picturebooks to develop Intercultural Citizenship Education through an early EFL curricula;

- Strength practitioners’ ability to use virtual learning platforms to communicate across borders after the course;

- Select picturebooks for Intercultural Citizenship Education for early English language learning;

- Share and mediate picturebooks in English;

- Plan, implement and evaluate Intercultural Citizenship Education-related activities around picturebooks in English;

- Interact online to engage in a future virtual community of practice;

- Age-appropriately assess the intercultural domain and citizenship values in early English language learning classes;

- Reflect on teaching and learning contexts.

Venue

Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

Target Audience

Teachers and school staff at pre-school and primary level (5-12 yrs old)