ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 13th, 2021

Community Spotlight; a model UN in a new age of social distancing
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Edward Escobar ( Kyoto Gaidai Nishi High School) Angus McGregor (Kyoto Gaidai　Nishi High School)
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)
Short description: "A Model United Nations event is a simulation of a challenging authentic environment that can provide meaningful learning contexts that go beyond the logistic and metaphysical constraints of the classroom" (Adamson, 2013).

IB FILM: Teaching and Designing a Western Curriculum in a Japanese Secondary School Context
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Cassidy Marra
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)
Short description: In the spring of 2019, I was hired to be a Film Studies teacher in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program at Fukuoka Daiichi High School. There was no textbook, no curriculum, and the students were all Japanese sixteen year-olds with Eiken Pre-2nd and zero knowledge of film.