ELT Calendar

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Owning Your Own English School
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Successful School Owners
Organization: ETJ Kobe (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Kobe ETJ is hosting a school owner 's 'Think Tank '. Short presentations from successful school owners, plus work-stations on working with parents, payment systems, demo lessons, curriculum and more.

Fun in the Sun! - Picnic Party
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Speaker: Anyone with fun ideas!
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: JALT Hokkaido members and their families are invited to come and relax in the park near the Governor's Mansion and share fun ideas for teaching English to kids.

Laugh and Learn / All Together Now!
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Linda Witting / Chris Hunt
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Enjoying English Kitakyushu JALT will present an afternoon of workshops designed primarily for teachers of children, to help them make the learning of English a joyful experience for their students.

Creating and Utilizing Online Courses and Coursework
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: John Spiri (Akita International University)
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: This PowerPoint demonstration will start with the presenter explaining some of the applications of moodle, the free, open source course management system for online learning.

A New Approach to Teaching Children for Skilled Teachers
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Naoko Ogikubo
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: In this presentation, the way to utilize materials such as Finding Out as wrap-up material for your classes will be introduced. Finding Out covers not only phonics but sentence structures from an early stage.