参与者
GRACE BERTOLINI
Topic:
“Strong communities build strong schools: how to community build all year long!”
Merits:

I am an experienced EFL- ESL Teacher Educator, specialized in Learning Organizations, Multiple Intelligences,

Classroom Management, Cooperative Learning, Learning and the Brain, Social Emotional Learning, Conflict

Resolution and Positive Education at school.

My mother tongue is Spanish and I speak English, French, Italian and Portuguese and I have studies in Physical

Education. I have got a Neuro Learning Degree that has allowed me to incorporate tools for brain-compatible

learning in a positive, healthy and inclusive educational environment.
For more than 40 years I have taught all levels and ages at bilingual schools and Private Schools of English and I

have been the Head at several bilingual Institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I am a Bilingual Facilitator for Peace Education Foundation (USA) and a Certified Positive Discipline Classroom

Educator for Positive Discipline Association (USA).
As CREATIVE TEACHING & DEVELOPING TEACHERS Director, I design Courses for Kindergarten, Primary and

High school classes, I lecture on Social Emotional Learning, Conflict Resolution, Classroom Management and

Cooperative Learning and I deliver Professional Development Workshops nationwide and abroad on Teaching

EFL-ESL effectively.

Contribution:

PROPOSAL 1: “Strong communities build strong schools: how to community build all year long!”

Fostering positive learning communities through culturally responsive classroom management: ahigh quality education is characterized by ambitious instruction delivered in healthy and inclusive learning environments where students can develop and demonstrate the social and emotional competencies they need to be and remain successful in and out of school.We will share effectivepractices to deliver engaging academics, and to teach, model, and integrate Social Emotional Learning and the XXI Century skills at school. In this Presentation we willbuild community and boost learning: Excellence is the expectation.

 

PROPOSAL 2: “Reach before you teach: strengthening your students' engagement”As educators, we are always concerned about student engagement and motivation, looking for effective strategies to try in our lessons. When we want to reinforce our learners’ engagement in learning, it is valuable to have creative and innovative tools that help us effectively reach students intellectually, socially and emotionally. Create a positive and inclusive classroom climate in which real language learning can grow using strategies that develop security, identity, belonging, purpose and competence in your learners. Become more resourceful and enhance your teaching practice and your motivation balancing your classroom language routine with innovative techniques that will establish a productive and respectful learning atmosphere using XXI Century skills such as creativity, critical thinking, cooperative learning and social emotional learning in a brain-based class.

Expectations:

I would like to deliver two Presentations to reach as many colleagues from other parts of the world as possible.