ELT Calendar

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

Okinawa ELT Expo
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: several well-known speakers
Organization: ETJ (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture
Short description: The ETJ Expos are for all teachers, with presentations and materials for teaching kindergarten up through college students. The ETJ Expos will tour 10 major Japanese cities.

Osaka Study Group January Meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: The monthly IIEEC Osaka Study Group meeting welcomes all teachers who are interested in improving their teaching techniques and getting students to ask questions as well as answering them.

IIEEC Nagoya January Study Group Meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: The monthly IIEEC Nagoya Study Group meeting welcomes all teachers who are interested in improving their teaching techniques and getting students to ask questions as well as answering them.

ETJ Hiroshima January Meeting
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Seth Bareiss and Ikumi Kondo
Organization: ETJ Hiroshima (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Seth Bareiss will discuss how to encouraging lateral thinking in children. Ikumi Kondo will discuss teaching English using nursery rhymes.

ETJ-Toyama First Meeting - Two Presentations
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Terry R. Stone, Mari Nakamura
Organization: ETJ Toyama (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture
Short description: You're invited! This is the first ETJ workshop in Toyama. Everyone with an interest in teaching young learners of English is welcome.

IIEEC Music, Rhythm & Movement Workshop in Nagoya
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Music is part of culture. Culture is part of language education.

Teaching Reading: For All Ages
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: TBA
Organization: ETJ Kagoshima (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: The January ETJ-Kagoshima meeting will last from 2:00-4:00 instead of 2:00-5:00 due to darkness and the fact that many people have needed to leave early recently.

ETJ-Fukuoka January Meeting
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Craig McDonald, Riktam de Voil
Organization: ETJ Fukuoka (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: In the first part of today's event, Craig McDonald gives ideas on how you can liven up your lessons with dynamic warm-ups, songs and grammer based games.

Reading - how to turn students of any age into bookworms
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Oliver Bayley from Oxford University Press
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: Oliver Bayley of Oxford University Press will give a presentation on the use of the Oxford University Press graded readers. There is definitely a reading "boom" in Japan at the moment, with more interest in reading (and particularly extensive reading) than ever before.