ELT Calendar

Saturday, November 10th, 2012

The Active Classroom: Methods and Materials that Work
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Charles Browne (Meiji Gakuin University), Marcos Benevides (J.F. Oberlin University) and many others
Organization: Tokai University Foreign Language Center (FLC)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The main purpose of the symposium is to bring together teachers/researchers from Tokai and other universities in a practical forum where they can share their knowledge of teaching methods and materials and the assessment of their effectiveness, in terms of how those methods and materials work with students in a university classroom setting to support effective classroom practice.

TESOL Certificate (Young Learners): Using songs and chants
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Setsuko Toyama
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Songs and chants as teaching materials should present the rhythm, stress and intonation of natural English. Teachers will learn various songs and chants, and will make their own.

TESOL Certificate (Young Learners): Teaching in elementary schools
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Setsuko Toyama
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Teachers will learn various classroom-tested activities that compliment Hi, friends!, a MEXT-provided teaching material. Tips on team-teaching with homeroom teachers will be discussed.

PechaKucha Night
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Various
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Kitakyushu JALT will be hosting our second PechaKucha night involving a variety of presentations to do with classroom learning and teaching. There will be 6 - 8 presenters who will each take turns presenting their chosen topic using only 20 slides for 20 seconds each.