ELT Calendar

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

Professional Development: Teachers of children - Speaking test examiners
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Jim George
Organization: Cambridge English Language Assessment - JP004 (Luna International)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Professional development day-long session to train experienced and qualified teachers of young learners, to be become Oral Examiners ("OEs"). This workshop will cover the speaking tests for the three levels of YLE - Starters, Movers and Flyers.

One-Day Certificate Course in Teaching Children (Osaka)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: About the course: A general introduction to child-centered learning. All sessions are interactive.

(1) Putting Truman on Trial: An Academic Speaking Workshop; (2) Teaching Content-Based English Classes
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: (1) Jason White; (2) John Helwig
Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: Putting Truman on Trial: An Academic Speaking WorkshopJason White This workshop provides teachers with the opportunity to get a firsthand look at how an eight-week long academic speaking project got a group of 21 students to step beyond their normal ideas of English speaking and challenge themselves to produce a collaborative final presentation that exceeded everyone's expectations.

Call for Papers Due April 10th (Sunday)

Osaka JALT Back to School 2011
Call for papers due: April 10th (Sunday)
Event Date: April 24th (Sunday), 2011
Overview: Extended deadline. Osaka JALT Chapter, in collaboration with the Framework and Language Portfolio SIG and Task Based Learning SIG, invite submissions for this year's Back to School event, to be held Sunday, April 24 at Osaka Gakuin University.