ELT Calendar

Sunday, January 20th, 2019

An introduction to Cooperative Learning
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Lem Mauricio
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Cooperative learning helps to achieve a wide variety of educational goals and is used in classrooms around the world. Our next Sunday workshop will feature Lem Mauricio in both sessions as he explains this alternative to traditional teaching methods.

Inspire, Explore, Motivate: A young learners event (Kanazawa, Ishikawa)
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Mari Nakamura (English Square), Justin Kaley and David White (National Geographic Learning)
Organization: National Geographic Learning (Cengage Learning)
Location: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture
Short description: With workshops from leading names in young learner education and experienced consultants, you will acquire practical teaching ideas you can use in your classroom today! Let's inspire, motivate and explore together as English teachers who play a vital role in shaping the future of our young learners.

School Owners Mini-Conference
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Matthew Reynolds, Janina Tubby, Lesley Ito, Ryan Hagglund, Jeremy Lanig, Simon Moran
Organization: School Owners Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Join the JALT School Owners SIG for a full day of presentations and discussions related to business and language school ownership in Japan. English teaching, while a vital part of what we do, will not be the focus of this event, but rather topics related to hiring/firing, marketing, advertising, taxes, and other topics that we, as business owners, deal with every day.

TESOL (Young Learners): Context-based teaching for very young learners
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Teachers will look at how to set up context based situations so that children use language more naturally. This will include how to incorporate High Frequency Sight Words and CVC words into fun speaking activities that get young learners very familiar with these very useful words.

TESOL (Young Learners): Story-based teaching for very young learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Teachers will look at how to choose a story and how to re-work a story so that it matches a target language. This will include how to choose a good story for the type of target language being focused on and how to build speaking activities around that.

Running an English Language School
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Sanae Kawamoto and Shaun Leyland
Organization: ETJ Saitama (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: What is involved in running an English language school? Can we improve anything? Need answers to your present situation? Come and join as we discuss things relevant to schools in 2019!.