Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Oct. 12-15 2012, Act City, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
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Use your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad to engage your students?
Got a killer app which makes your classroom rock?
Used an iOS device with a really cool outcome for learner?
Integrated students’ devices into a connected lesson plan?
If your answer is “Yes” to any of the above, we want to hear about it – and while you are doing it you could win a cool prize from Cambridge University Press
The Chapter's AGM is the opportunity for all members (and anyone who is interested) to hear what your officers have been doing in the last year. It is an opportunity to ask questions, make suggestions and to advocate change.
This is a predominantly Japanese language presentation (questions can be taken in English) by two surgeons who specialise in the brain, in particular mapping its responses to neural inputs (language & related stimuli), and the consequences of delayed stimulation e.g. deafness; alternative stimulation e.g. sign language; multiple stimulation e.g. bi-lingualism.
Venue (Camp site) to be arranged, southern Nagano prefecture.
Overnight event + BBQ, music & swimming.
Family event, all welcome.
Please bring your own tent/camping gear; BBQs will be available to share.
Looking for a way to make your class more interactive with the addition of online components?
Or a comprehensive solution for placing your students with an online placement test?
Whether it be an online workbook, or a full online course, Cambridge University Press has material available now for you.
This is a walk not only for your health but also for your brain! We will walk halfway around Lake Suwa (approx. 8 km) while learning about the local environment from Shinshu University researchers. After lunch at Kamaguchi Suimon in Okaya, a forum starts at 12:00 which includes a short talk and quiz game about the lake’s environment as well as some “fun time”.
How are my students getting it right for themselves?
Atsuko Katanaga presented her opinions on “The Cultural Differences in teaching” based on her experiences teaching π.
Mari Nakamura defines her Eikaiwa (English Square, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref) as ‘not a juku’.
Summarised her questionnaire results (of parents of children attending her school) to the question regarding “Attitudes to learning” as ‘quite negative as a whole through high Scholl and Center Examinations, and that students don’t know what to do with the English they have learned’.
Are we language teachers producing the right kind of pegs, for the holes that they are supposed to go into i.e. academia & industry?
We all have a personal view of how well we are doing wrt our own students, but are we actually seeing the bigger picture? All the theory and flash teaching in the world might sound good, look good, and even be good...
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