Language Across Curriculuma five-day course for teacher educators

continuing education program6th to 10th November, 2017

Language plays a central role in the learning experience of the child as it enables her to form concepts, explore symbols, analyze a given problem, organize information and interact with her environment. The conceptual understanding of the various school subjects depends on the learner’s language ability as the listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities in the school language are a prerequisite for her engagement with and proficiency in all the subjects included in the curriculum. As all school subjects are learnt through language, teachers as well as teacher trainers need to develop a critical understanding of the nature and role of language in the context of the child, the curriculum and the subject knowledge and this assumption has prompted us to design this course named and styled as Language across Curriculum.

The syllabus consists of three specific topic areas:

Unit 1: Language: its nature and scope, the relationship between language and cognition, language and meaning and language and learning

Unit 2: Language and the child, how children acquire language, how the language ability contributes to the cognitive development of the children and their learning needs.

Unit 3: Learning through Language, how language learning at schools takes place across all the school subjects.

Why this course? Syllabus overview:

This course is specifically designed for the teacher educators of State Councils of Educational Research and Training, Colleges of Teacher Education, District Institutes of Education and Training and other non-Government organizations involved in teacher education.

The course aims at • introducing the participants to the theory and practice of a language

across curriculum perspective in the teaching of various subjects at the school level.

• guiding the participants to explore language in subject-specific contexts by relating it to the overall objectives of the curriculum.

• providing the participants with a hands on experience of classroom practices which can be replicated in their specific contexts.

The participants will be awarded a certificate of participation on completion of the entire duration of five days.

Who should attend?

Course objectives:

Certification of Participation

Cost: Rs.5000, inclusive of taxes Fee waivers available for Govt.employees Date: November 6th to 10th, 2017

Parthasarathi Misra, Faculty, Azim Premji University, teaches Curricular Material Development in Language and English Language Proficiency courses at the Postgraduate level and is involved in designing courses for the professional development of teacher educators.

For more information, email language.pm@apu.edu.in

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Course DetailsCourse Faculty

Nivedita Bedadur, Faculty, Azim Premji University, is engaged in designing and facilitating courses on Language, Early Literacy and English Language Teaching for Teacher Educators across the country.

Ms Nisha Butoliya, Guest Faculty, Azim Premji University, has a rich experience as a teacher, teacher educator, resource person and an academic co-ordinator for several years.

Anupama S. M, Faculty, Azim Premji University, has been working towards teacher development and teacher support, by conducting need based courses for the teachers and teacher educators of Mathematics.

Venue: Activity Room, 1st Floor, Pixel Park, B Block, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bengaluru Medium of instruction: English and Hindi