ELT Calendar

Monday, September 15th, 2003

Today is Respect for the Aged Day (Keirou-no-hi)

Cooperative Structures and Language Learning
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Spencer Kagan
Organization: Nagoya and Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Aichi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Cooperative learning is a natural catalyst for language learning. Cooperative learning structures can be incorporated easily as part of any lesson, with a powerful mpact on comprehensible input and frequency of language output opportunities.

Tokyo Halloween Workshop
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: October is the Halloween month. It's also a good chance to teach your young students a little Western culture.

Ways of Focussing on Language (Day 5 of 5 Mondays)
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: British Council Teacher Trainers
Organization: The British Council Tokyo Centre
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: These British Council courses are designed to assist teachers in their day to day teaching and provide practical ideas for adopting communicative methodology to the Japanese Junior and Senior high school classrooms.