ELT Calendar

Sunday, January 14th, 2018

(1) Foster Independent Academic Learning with Google Search; (2) Tech Tools for Formative Assessment
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: (1) Nate Gildart; (2) Alexander (Dean) Hester
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Let's get revved up for the new year with two great workshops in January. Our first workshop features Nate Gildart as he teaches us how to use Google more effectively.

TESOL Certificate Program: Planning and integrating language games
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: A hands-on workshop where groups of teachers will be assigned language targets, work together to design activities for introducing and practicing the targets, and then demonstrate them.

TESOL Certificate Program: Planning and integrating songs
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: How can we fully integrate songs into our lessons? This is a hands-on lessons where teachers will work in groups to modify and come up with songs that fit assigned language targets.

The Planning and Development of an Active English Curriculum for University First-Year English Majors
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Keith Barrs, Amir Feroze, Daniel Hougham, Hosam Elmetaher, Jim Ronald and Philip Head
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: The setting up of a major new department-wide university English-language curriculum for first year students presents valuable opportunities to consider afresh what should be covered, and how.