ELT Calendar

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

From Crib to Classroom: A 1-Day Certificate Course in Teaching Very Young Learners
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Marco Brazil IETC Training Director
Organization: Institute of English Teaching to Children
Location: Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Short description: Discover how you can teach very young learners the fun and easy way with mothers or fathers in your class. In this course you will learn how to make your oyako class serious fun so that both mother and child are having a great time learning English.

CANCELLED: 2012 ETJ Chugoku Expo
Time: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker:
Organization: ETJ Hiroshima (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: This event has been cancelled. Please note that this event has been cancelled.

Developing Global Leaders: Education and Training for Language, Culture and Confidence
Time: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Plenary by Yasushi Akashi (UN Diplomat; Chairman I-House Japan)
Organization: Japan Intercultural Institute
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: We invite you to join us at JII's upcoming conference on November 11th, 2012. A wide range of internationalists -- educators, trainers and intercultural communication specialists -- will come together for a day of presentations, networking, a keynote address by diplomat and former UN envoy Yasushi Akashi, and a special workshop by Joseph Shaules.

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.

2012 Seminar for Teachers of English: Evolving Methods in English Teaching
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Speaker: Kensaku Yoshida, Pamela Hartmann, Brenda Bushell, Marcos Benevides
Organization: McGraw-Hill Education
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: McGraw-Hill Education will be holding a seminar for teachers of English on November 11, 2012 at AP Hamamatsucho. Doors open at 12:30.

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.

November Workshops
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Katrina Harata, Jesse Elam
Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: Two presentations. Please see their JALT page for details.

Learning communication strategies from films
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Speaker: Kimiko Ochi (Matsuyama University), Danielle Kurihara (Matsuyama University)
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Short description: Japanese university students are used to learning English at the word and sentence level. However, it is possible to motivate them to acquire communication strategies and meaning through films.