ELT Calendar

Sunday, November 20th, 2016

Kids are like goldfish!
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Robert Pensak
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: The average attention spans of children have fallen below that of a goldfish! Take a humorous look at lesson planning, activities, and songs with Bob Pensak to keep them little goldfish interested!.

Positive Psychology in Language Teaching: A mini-conference on happiness in our classrooms
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Sarah Mercer (University of Gratz, Austria), Marc Helgesen (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University), Joseph Falout (Nihon University), Tim Murphey (Kanda University of International Studies)
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: What does Positive Psychology - "the scientific study of how human beings prosper and thrive" - imply about how we learn language? Sendai will play host to a mini-conference including leaders in the field.

SCBWI Japan Illustration Day: Perfect Partners: Text and Art and the Visual Narrative of Picture Books
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Illustrator Barbara McClintock
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Join Barbara McClintock for a four-hour workshop with hands-on activities focused on what makes a successful picture book narrative. We'll explore how text and illustrations work together to create storytelling that is compelling to a very young child who is just beginning to make the connection between written words and their meanings, as well as older children and even adults who love stories told with pictures and text.