Workshop: Using Literature To Help Children Develop Resilience

Workshop: Using Literature To Help Children Develop Resilience

As our children enter another online school year, it is important for homeroom teachers, english language teachers and parents to engage children in mindful literature which teaches them resilience, empathy and inspires them to take action to address any distress they might face during these unforeseen times. Shalini Pattabhiraman will share suitable book titles, authors and publications for our children to read. She will give strategies and activities which teachers and parents can use along with these books.

Facilitator: Shalini Pattabiraman

I currently teach English at a secondary school in Scotland. In the past, I have facilitated workshops and training for adults(parents & teachers) in the use of drama in education, choosing and using literature, working with poetry and storytelling; developed curriculum for teaching and supporting drama in education and worked with a wide range of children in India and Singapore. In what seems like a past life now, I was involved with marketing and at some point, wrote for A&M an advertising and marketing journal.  I love many things that begin with /p/ such as paintings, pottery, pebbles, picture books, poetry, process-drama, people, perspectives and then some that begin with /ph/such as photography, philosophy, physics. But most important of all, I love to play, play with sounds, words, ideas, questions, choices, and decisions.