APLISC and Macmillan Seminar October 20th

Auditório Henrique Fontes / CCE-B – UFSC – Fpolis

The PCNs and their implications in our day-to-day teaching

Abstract: The PCNs are now almost 10 years old and are still an object of curiosity and discussion amongst teachers in Brazil. It is important to remind teachers that the PCNs are not the law that regulates Brazilian Education itself. The law is the LDB of 1996. The PCNs are the parameters for the implementations of a minimal curricular basis. They aim at setting standards which Brazilian Education must abide by and therefore provide its citizens with somewhat equal conditions of schooling. The parameters were published as a letter of intentions, a statement of aims to be reached through years of hard work and this is what they still remain as today. Our aim is to look at some aspects of the parameters and see what has been happening in English language teaching in Brazil, independent of the controversies and disagreements surrounding the document throughout its existence.

Program

8:30-9:00 – Welcoming participants

9:00-10:30 - Workshop with Marcelo Baccarin

10:30-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00-12:00 - Workshop with Marcelo Baccarin

12:00-13:00 – Lunch

13:00-14:00 – Poster Session

14:00-15:30 – Macmillan Presentation and Book Raffle

Marcelo Baccarin is currently an academic consultant with Macmillan and holds a degree in Education and an RSA/Cambridge Diploma-TEFLA. He has been involved in ELT since 1983 having taught and coordinated in language institutes and regular schools in Brazil and England. At present he is also a member of the Braz-TESOL Advisory Council. Marcelo is the author of Globetrotter and the newly published Globetrekker and a co-author of the series Tech Teens both published by Macmillan.