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ETJ-Aichi's next workshop...
Games: spelling, vocabulary, grammar
Bob Jones
Putting ourselves in another language
Vic Ssali
13 July (2008), 10AM-12:30PM
Chukyo University. Details here.
** Past workshops.
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| Four Skills for Effective EFL: How and Why | 11 May 2008 | Peter Warner on how reading and writing skills can be taught in an active children's EFL curriculum to provide a balanced and effective language learning experience. This presentation promotes lively class activities, Linguistic Phonics, and systematic alphabetic code instruction. Attendees will engage in active demonstrations, and there will be time for questions. | |
| Let's enjoy picture books in the classroom / A Tale of Two Kindergartens - A Journey of Intercultural Exchange | 23 Mar 2008 | Kazumi Takagi, on a read-aloud program regularly held at Gifu Prefectural Library, plus ways to help Japanese children enjoy foreign picture-books; Kim Horne and Aya Asano, on a homestay project involving 50 Japanese kindergarteners, and how the children made it into homes and hearts in the U.S.A. This was also the last workshop for our reception officer, Chris Williams. Thank you for all your help, Chris! |
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| Relating to very young children / Crosswords for fun | 27 Jan 2008 | Two presenters: Nicola Oshima, with pointers on how to relate to very small children - ages 0 - 5; and, Otto Lamb, on how crosswords can be a fun and efficient way to achieve your teaching aims in the classroom. | |
| ETJ Chubu ELT EXPO | 14 Oct 2007 | From the ETJ-Aichi officers, thank you to the
volunteers, attendees, presenters, publishers and to David Paul English House for their generous help and enthusiastic participation. Together, we all made this, our 5th Expo, yet another great success.
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| Interactive conversation: jr high to adult / Halloween events and games | 9 Sept 2007 | Two presenters: Bob Jones, with simple activities that help students develop a more interactive conversational style; and, Joe Alsheimer, on organising classroom- or school-sized Halloween parties (haunted house, trick or treating, and games). | |
| Using Music to Teach Rhythm, Vocabulary and Self-Confidence / Homework for Young Learners | 1 July 2007 | John Wilcutt, on using popular music in the classroom to teach vocabulary, rhythm, and confidence with the language; and, Peter Warner, on how to design, use, and correct children's EFL homework that is attractive, enjoyable and effective. | |
| Cooking & childrens EFL / Deactivating the Mute Button in JHS Classrooms | 27 May 2007 | Joe Hindman, exploring techniques for getting those taciturn junior high students to talk; and, Chris Williams, on how to use cooking in childrens EFL lessons -- including actually cooking from muffin and cake recipes during the presentation ! | |
| Enjoy learning grammar / Refresh your game & activity repertoire / Techniques to enliven storytelling in the classroom | 18 Mar 2007 | Three presentations: Yoko Takano showed how easy it is to teach past tense verbs through games and activities; Joshua Myerson discussed new ideas for games to help start off the school yea; and, Ben Backwell explained how to make storytelling and dialogue work more engaging and memorable for students in jr high and elsewhere. |
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| Teach them All By Reaching Them All | 14 Jan 2007 | Continuing with the exchange program between ETJ regions, ETJ-Kyoto member Chuck Kayser pays us a visit to discuss methods and activities for not only surviving but also enjoying the challenging classroom: suddenly enrolled new students, 'problem' students, classes of mixed abilities and ages... all will be covered and all will be answered! | |
| ETJ Chubu ELT EXPO | 26 Nov 2006 | Our fourth Chubu ELT EXPO !!! ETJ-Aichi would like to thank the volunteers, publishers, David Paul and especially Chukyo University for making this valuable event possible. | |
| Multi-Sensory Teaching/ Cooperative Learning | 10 Sept 2006 | Two presentations: Ben Blackwell and Patricia Gage on cooperative learning activities for junior high, followed by Kim Horne on learning English with multi-sensory activities. |
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| Six Secrets to Success with Songs and Chants | 2 July 2006 | As part of an exchange program between ETJ regions, ETJ-Osaka member and teacher Kaj Schwermer shared some ideas
on using songs and chants to help liven up classes, improve memory, and
overcome shyness.
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| Lesson planning for higher elementary / Reading: understanding phonics and whole word methods | 14 May 2006 | Mayumi Kako demonstrated her successful higher elementary class through lesson plans and practical tips, while Peter Warner discussed the reading process by looking at phonics,
whole word and mixed methods. |
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| Round-table discussions & sales bazaar | 12 March 2006 | Two parts: a session of round
table discussions for sharing teaching ideas on different topics, such as
phonics, reading, and parent education, as well as a sales bazaar for attendees
to sell their extra ESL related materials. |
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| Encouraging Kids'Originality: English Through Art | 22 Jan 2006 | Three presenters led hands-on
discussions: Yoshimi Midori, on how to use original art in an English lesson
to help children express themselves; Peter Warner, on understanding Romaji
and its correct use; and, Doug Evans, with practical classroom management
strategies for various classroom scenarios. |
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| ETJ Chubu ELT EXPO | 20 Nov 2005 | Part of ETJ's third annual series Language Teachers' Expos throughout 7 cities in Japan. |
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| The Future of Team Teaching in Elementary School | 11 Sept 2005 | The speaker, Biagio Christiano,
talked about his experiences as a team teacher at a pilot English program
in an elementary school. He explained the trio team teacher system and lesson
planning. Workshop participants also had the chance to simulate the lesson
planning and teaching scenarios as experienced by the program's homeroom
teacher, English-speaking Japanese volunteer and native English speaking
teacher. |
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| Practice Makes Confident | 10 July 2005 | Ritsuko Mori, a teacher at Inazawa
Higashi Senior High School, explored ideas on encouraging students to speak
out through activities which improve their ability in both listening and
reading comprehension. |
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| Make Your Own Reading Textbooks / Classroom Management - the basis of all good teaching | 8 May 2005 | Three presenters: Yoko Takano,
shared with us her fun activities and the ways of making them student centered;
Chris Williams, talked about some techniques that help teachers organize
their time, their teaching and their discipline in the classroom; and Linda
Donan, presented how to convert children's picture and story books into
simple stories for reading aloud in EFL class. |
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| Round table & Spring Bazaar | 20 March 2005 | Two parts. First, to encourage
ETJ-Aichi members to exchange ideas with each other, there were five round
table discussion groups -- preschool, lower, upper elementary, adult students,
and owners -- each with a moderator to initiate and sustain exchanges. Afterwards,
a Spring Cleaning ELT Bazaar, open to any members wishing to donate/sell
surplus teaching material. |
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| Teaching Pre-School / TELL : Express yourself |
23 Jan 2005 | Our first presenter, Mayumi Kako,
introduced "TELL: Express Yourself", a way for getting children
to express themselves through activities, while our second presenter, Nicola
Oshima, discussed successful language teaching methods for the 2-3/4-5/5-6
year old groups. |
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| ETJ-Aichi 2004 Year-end party!! |
26 Dec 2004 | ETJ-Aichi's annual year-end party.
This year, we enjoyed casual billiards, darts, and friendly conversation
over food and drinks at Player's. |
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| Intermediate phonics | 14 Nov 2004 | Do EFL students need phonics?
What is the importance and role of phonics in studying English as a foreign
language? How can we teach phonics beyond the basic consonants and vowel
sounds? The presenter, Peter Warner, adderssed these questions, and demonstrated
methods and materials to lift EFL students beyond basic phonics skills into
reading and writing double letter consonants and vowels. There was also
time made for questions from the 30+ participants. |
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ETJ Chubu ELT Expo 2004
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17 Oct 2004 |
We at ETJ-Aichi would like to thank the publishers, presenters, volunteers, ETJ staff, and 200-plus teachers and educators who attended for their support and teamwork in making the Chubu area's participation in this national ELT event such a success. We look forward to seeing you all again at the 2005 ETJ Chubu ELT Expo! |
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| Turn your students into chatterboxes | 5 Sept 2004 | Our students are fabulous if
we have the right range of fun activities to keep them motivated. This presentation,
by John Moore, looked at ways to inspire students to communicate and channel
their vibrant energy into English through student centered activities that
are sure to get them speaking. The presenter offered highly practical tips
and advice on what to do and what not to do during speaking activities.
These activities were all demonstrated and participants joined in and became "chatterboxes"! |
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| A New Challenge to English Learning in Japan | 11 July 2004 | What kind of English education
is needed in Japan, and what kind of teacher is needed for Japanese students?
Rieko Takagi spoke from her years of experience working with Japanese young
learners as a teacher and Kumon teacher trainer. Naoyuki Takeda briefly
explained the theory of the Kumon teaching materials. |
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| Developing projects for younger learners | 16 May 2004 | Chuck Sandy presented how to
chain activities and bring English classes alive. He is a well-known ELT
author, essayist, and poet; Professor of Humanities at Chubu University;
and, co-author with Jack Richards on Passages, Connect, and various pieces
of the Interchange Series. |
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| Lesson Planning: As Easy As PIE | 7 Mar 2004 | Lesley Ito, co-owner of 'Sunrise
English School' in Nagoya and a frequent writer on the ETJ discussion board,
presented a simple and easy-to-use "Pie Chart" system for consistenly creating
high quality, balanced lesson plans and for keeping a manageable record
of what has been taught throughout the year. The "Pie Chart" system is structured,
but within that structure the teacher has freedom to teach how they choose.
This system is also ideal for school owners who want to maintain quality
control. |
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| Entering a New Era with Reflex Training | 25 Jan 2004 | Felix Puschkarski and Jonathan
Lipschitz shared their research results and ideas on how to jump-start language
acquisition through the implementation of their 'Theory of Language Reflexes'.
Their innovative approach has been tested in their own school, the 'Reflex
Language Workshop' in Okazaki for three years with impressive results, and
opens new doors by systematically training language in highly effective
ways in order to greatly accelerate language learning. |
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| ETJ-Aichi year-end party | 28 Dec 2003 | Only a few pictures unfortunately
since the hard-drive on the party's main photographer's Mac decided to misbehave
after New Year's :-( If anyone has more pics, please email
them in. |
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Speech contests & Language-game
essentials
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16 Nov 2003 | David Rawn and Chris Williams,
ALTs at Reitaku Mizunami
Jr/Sr High (website includes past speeches) in Gifu, talked and illustrated
with videos and tapes some of the ways they have successfully prepared their
students for speech competitions. As well Joshua Myerson, an EFL teacher
for children and adults in Japan since 1994, led a discussion about which
features are essential for successful language games. |
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| Chubu ELT Expo | 19 Oct 2003 | Thank you to all the participants,
presenters, publishers, volunteers and ETJ-Aichi officers for making the
event a smooth-running success. |
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| Integrating the four skills | 7 Sept 2003 | Hamish Buchan, from the British
Council, led a demonstration basic-Hungarian lesson to give participants
a first-hand understanding of the why's and how's of putting together young-learner
lesson plans which integrate reading, writing, speaking and listening. |
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| English proficiency tests for young learners | 13 July 2003 | Lesley Ito discussed the merits
and demerits of two young-learner English proficiency tests, JAPEC
and Jr Eiken, both used at
her school . Then John Raby (Saxoncourt
ELT) introduced his company's STYLE
proficiency test, also aimed for young learners. |
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| Kids' favorite learning activities | 25 May 2003 | ETJ-Aichi officers Hiromi Yano,
Mayumi Kako, and Peter
Warner shared successful teaching activities for children's classes. |
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| Tax Workshop for English School Owners and Teachers | 9 Mar 2003 | Miki Aoki discussed, in English,
various forms and documents necessary for reporting taxes in Japan. |
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| Graded readers & young-learners | 26 Jan 2003 | Teaching reading to young EFL
learners, particularly through the Oxford Reading Tree graded-reades series.
Mayuka Habbick's focus
was on elementary-school and younger students, while Nicolas
Cueto covered the junior high level. |
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| Holiday Lesson Plans | 17 Nov 2002 | Linda
Donan presented several activities for Teaching For Christmas, including
why we should teach our students about Christmas, and then we had the chance
to try out some of her Christmas crafts ourselves! In addition, some other
members of ETJ-Aichi brought in their own ideas to explain and share (including
a Pin-the-tail variation and
online Bingo maker),
and we had the opportunity to find out more about these ideas. |
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| Multi-workshop | 8 Sept 2002 | This was our first multi-mini-presentation
workshop with three speakers --Joe Alsheimer, Peter Warner, Sharon Abe --
covering topics such as using mnemonics, enlivening
bingo, and tools
for classroom activities. Plenty of variety and learning for everyone! |
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| Phonics for young learners | 14 July 2002 | Kimiko
Hiramatsu, from Education Network,
talked about phonics for young learners, an integral part of teaching English.
The workshop covered the following: 1. What is phonics? What is the result of learning phonics in our classes? 2. What do students need to learn before starting phonics? 3. How to introduce phonics to our students? 4. How to demonstrate phonics rules? 5. The well-balanced curriculum |
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| Ideas for Teaching Pronunciation to Children & Learning Styles and Teaching Children | 19 May 2002 | Elin
Melchior discussed how to help children master
pronunciation, and demonstrated various useful pronunciation activities
useful for young EFL learners. Michael
Hunter reviewed briefly the variety of childrens' learning styles, and
demonstrated learning activities which incorporate each of these various
learning styles. |
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Learning Through Play & The Meat and Potatoes of Teaching Children |
17 Mar 2002 |
Tania MacDonell and Joshua Myerson focused on two aspects of teaching: activities useable with very young learners, and activities that can get students speaking more in each class. |
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Games for little children & Roundtable discussion |
20 Jan 2002 |
Shizuka Mori , a teacher of young children in the Nagoya area, presented games for little children, and had us join in and try out some activities. Afterwards, there was a round-table discussion on any teaching points of interest to participants. |
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Phonics for kids & Planning Class Activities |
18 Nov 2001 |
Sharon Abe discussed ideas about planning extracurricular activities, and Stephen Brivati spoke on teaching phonics to elementary school-aged children. |
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Activities, Songs, & Chants for Children |
30 Sept 2001 |
Robert Habbick (Oxford University Press) demonstrated hands-on some activities, songs & chants for children's classes, plus provided a book display of Oxford University materials. Contact Robert at 052-839-0253 |
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| Applying the three R's to teaching: Recycling, Reusing and Reducing | 8 July 2001 | Mathew
White showed ways of making/gathering materials inexpensively, plus
creative ways to use these with our young learners. |
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| Vocabulary: what words do we teach and how? | 22 April 2001 | Peter
Warner showed how he makes and uses his homemade picture word-cards
to get students of all ages talking with gusto, while Nicolas
Cueto introduced his Extensive Reading and Vocabulary Thru Video secondary-school
courses to highlight do's and dont's when deciding which words to teach. |
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| One Japanese perspective on employing & teaching | 25 Feb 2001 | Yoshimi Nagano talked about the
what's and why's of her expectations of non-native teachers and the language
learning classroom. |
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