ELT Calendar

Sunday, March 25th, 2018

TESOL Certificate Program: Lesson planning
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: Teachers will look at effective lesson planning, create lesson plans, and demonstrate how the lessons would be carried out in practice. .

TESOL Certificate Program: Being an effective teacher
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: Teachers will look at the role of the teacher in class, and at how to manage difficult classes. This will include the way we interact with students, the example we set, our role in activities etc.

Okinawa Spring Language Teaching Symposium
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Hinako Takahashi
Organization: Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Onna, Okinawa Prefecture
Short description: The purpose of this language teaching symposium is to provide a platform for language teachers to share their contexts with members of the Okinawa chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT).

My Share
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: JALT Sendai Members - submit a proposal!
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: Our March meeting will be a My Share event, featuring short presentations from JALT Sendai members. If you have an engaging and successful activity you'd like to share, send an email to our Program Officer Alison Nemoto by March 20.

Applying Research When Making a University-Wide Vocabulary Program: Doing What Works, Not What Is Easy
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Stuart McLean (Osaka Jogakuin)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: This presentation will briefly introduce empirical research findings which all too often fail to influence university vocabulary program design. The presentation will then describe the challenges the presenter found when planning, implementing and then further developing a university-wide research based bilingual vocabulary program.