ELT Calendar

Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

10th Annual CamTESOL Conference on ELT
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: TBA; call for papers due September 14th, 2013
Organization: Cambodia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Location: Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
Short description: The 10th Annual CamTESOL Conference is going to be hosted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in February, 2014. For the first time in its decade of hosting, CamTESOL with the theme of English for Regional and International Integration will offer two major events: The Regional Research Symposium Friday 21 February 2014 The Regional Research Symposium, with a focus on promoting language research in the region, targets language-related researchers including those preparing doctoral theses.

SCBWI Japan Writer's Day: Jazz It Up! Writing Today for Children and Young Adults
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Suzanne Kamata, Wouter Laleman, Leza Lowitz, Mariko Nagai, Vice-President, Andrea Davis Pinckey (Executive Editor at Scholastic via video) Sean Michael Wilson
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: 9-9:15 Registration 9:15-10:45 Distance Critiques - Receive, React, Revise Participants who paid for Distance Critiques will receive their written critiques back, react to them in a structured and supportive environment, then determine steps for revision.

Mind and Body: Active Learning and Teaching Strategies
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Marco Brazil (IETC) Training Director
Organization: Mabuhay Classroom Kyushu
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: How can we teachers give our students the oppportunity to experience concepts in physical ways? When children use their bodies to demonstrate how high, low, wide, and narrow a shape is, they greatly enhance their understanding of these intellectual mathematical concepts.