ELT Calendar

Friday, September 28th, 2001

LATEM Annual Seminar
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Helene Uchida
Organization: NPO Teaching English Methods Institute
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: LATEM is an annual, nation-wide Intensive Seminar series run by Little America Schools, based in Fukuoka. The school was founded by Helene Jarmol Uchida, a veteran English teacher from New York.

Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: English instruction is about to become an option for the new "Period for Integrated Studies" in the Japanese public schools. Monbusho has published the "Handbook for Elementary School English Teaching Activities," to provide support to teachers.