ELT Calendar

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Whole Brain Teaching aka "Power Teaching"
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Kim Horne
Organization: Community of Friendly Filipino English Teachers
Location: Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: CoFFET and Sky Highes English Studion will co-host Whole Brain Teaching. WBT is a method that integrates an effective classroom management system with learning approaches that tap the way your brain learns best.

Peace as a Global Language 2011 (day 2 of 2)
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Peace as a Global Language Conference
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Peace as a Global Language will be held on October 22nd - 23rd at Konan CUBE in Nishinomiya (Kansai), Japan. PGL 2011, Peace without Boundaries, appeals to all those wishing to come together and work towards peace.

Approaches to Communication
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: James Matchett, Anthony Robins, Martha Robertson
Organization: Toyohashi Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: This meeting will feature three presentations on various approaches to facilitating and encouraging communication. Issues affecting communication such as environment, medium, and strategies for bridging cultural differences will all be examined in what promises to be a highly informative meeting.

University Accreditation in Japan: Problems and Possibilities for EFL Reform
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Bern Mulvey
Organization: Iwate-Aomori Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Short description: As of 2004, all universities in Japan must submit to an external accreditation evaluation, to be repeated every seven years. The universities are to receive detailed written assessments in multiple categories from one of the four official accrediting agencies.

How Change Happens: Critical Thinking 2.0
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Chuck Sandy
Organization: Shizuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: If critical thinking activities don't lead to changes in behavior & real world action, are they of true value? Maybe not. As Anne Radcliffe says "one act of real usefulness is worth all the abstract sentiment (thinking) in the world.

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Culture
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Rene Sawazaki
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: The presenter will introduce her unique model for teaching cultural understanding, the Culture Tree, and demonstrate how this model can serve as a guide for student deduction of cultural traits when analyzing stories.

ETJ Ishikawa Workshop: How to Use Visual Aids in Children's Classes - Seeing is Believing!
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Yuriko Mizubuchi (Teddy Bear English School), Yasuhiro Shimizu (Esteem School of English)
Organization: ETJ Ishikawa (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture
Short description: Come and join our 24th workshop focusing on the use of visual aids in kids classes! This workshop is designed so that all the participants can communicate with one another in a relaxed atmosphere.

Nara JALT: Ourshare and AGM
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Nara Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nara City, Nara Prefecture
Short description: Our popular Ourshare event will be held on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 from 15:00 to 17:00 at our regular venue: Yumekaze, near Todaiji. This hands-on, practical event is a fantastic opportunity for our members to share some of their most effective and successful classroom activities, teaching techniques and methodologies with the EFL teaching community at large.

National Conference Sneak Preview
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: To be decided
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: If you cannot make it to November's JALT National Conference in Tokyo, here is your chance to see several presentations which will be featured there.