ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Teaching Workshop Series 2007 (Sendai) - Teaching Children More Effectively
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Kevin Churchley, Yoko Muro, Miki Sakai, Oliver Bayley
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: Practical and interactive workshops from well-known presenters to help you teach children more effectively! Information Exchange Bulletin Board is available.

Character, Voice and Factual Foundations
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Speaker: Donna Jo Napoli
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Napoli will discuss elements that are fundamental to capturing the reader's attention including how to develop a character, how to create distinct voices, and how to use facts in building a fictional world that the reader can inhabit easily.

Studying Japanese, English, and German
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Reinhold Grinda
Organization: Yamagata Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture
Short description: Today, knowledge of more than one foreign language can be considered a must for everybody who wants to enter society. In Germany, like in most European countries, there are ample opportunities to efficiently study whichever language you want, get introduced to the country and its culture, and sooner or later, study abroad too.

Session 2 - Using Research in Writing Fiction
Time: 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Donna Jo Napoli
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Napoli will discuss how to use research in writing fiction?from historical fiction to natural history fiction. This will be followed by a workshop in which participants use facts to create stories and take part in a writers' circle.

Session 3 - One Writer's Path and the Nuts and Bolts of Publishing
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Speaker: Donna Jo Napoli
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Napoli will describe how she became a writer?almost against her will. She will outline the pitfalls of her career as well as the sources of encouragement over the fourteen years it took her to sell her first story.

My Share: First Day Icebreakers
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: All welcome!
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This My Share session focuses on preparing for our first classes with our students. What activities do you do with your students when you first meet them? Bring along your ideas and share them with others.