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Nagoya Chapter Events in 2003

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Sunday, January 26th, 2003

Maps for Transformation

Speaker: David Pomatti
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., January 26th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: We know Bloom's taxonomy of thinking skills, Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Hofstede's dimensions of cultural variability as ways of focusing our teaching for Japanese students. Drawing on educational and transpersonal psychology, this talk will present additional, developmental ways to conceive the educational experience: Tadahiko Abiko's Shifting Interest Center, Ken Wilber's Four Quadrants, Robert Kegan's Orders of Consciousness, Jenny Wade's Changes of Mind, Spiral Dynamic's value-memes, and Tobin Hart's Education for the Evolution of Consciousness. These should help teachers in their course designing, educational research, and personal development.

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

Using the Web with Your ESL Students

Speaker: Charles Kelly
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 16th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya Institute of Technology
Description: Kelly introduces selected websites and explains how to use them with your students. Teachers will be shown how to find additional websites appropriate for their own students. At the end of the presentation, teachers will be shown how they can write data for quizzes that can be put online at a4esl.org (Activities for ESL Students), which is a project of The Internet TESL Journal featuring contributions by many teachers.

Sunday, March 16th, 2003

Blank Syllabus and Flashcards Games

Speaker: Linda Donan
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., March 16th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: An ever popular speaker, Linda Donan, will present two programs. From 1:30-2:30 she will address university and high school teachers on how to design a syllabus for that first day of class in April. From 2:30-4:30 she will demonstrate more than a dozen games teachers of children can play with their students to learn the fun way.

Sunday, April 20th, 2003

Visual Aids: Tools for Classroom Activities

Speaker: Sharon Abe
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., April 20th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: While most activities in the classroom can be done without them, visual aids can make activities more interesting for students and can help in reinforcing what the students are learning. Making, instead of buying, your own will allow you to customize visual aids to fit the needs of your students, and you can save money, too.

Sunday, May 18th, 2003

26 Basic Things any EFL Teacher of Children Should Know

Speaker: Setsuko Toyama
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., May 18th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: Setsuko Toyama will demonstrate 26 basic ideas and activities that have been successful in her classes: Ways to teach the Alphabet, fun Board games, activities to teach Colors, Do's and Don'ts in lesson planning, pros and cons on giving students English names, and more. These will be discussed in relation to appropriate age groups. This is a highly participatory workshop.

Sunday, June 22nd, 2003

About the TOEIC Test

Speaker: George Van Horn
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 22nd, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: George Van Horn will describe this popular English proficiency test: its history, current use in business and academia, and comparison with other tests. He will give an overview of the test structure, example questions, and testing techniques. Finally he will lead a discussion on test "wise-ness".

Sunday, July 13th, 2003

Motivation Research

Speaker: Terry Wacholz
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., July 13th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: The presenter will share the results of his study of freshman students using role-play, looking at both the English proficiency and reported motivation of the experimental group and the control group who did textbook exercises.

Saturday, July 26th, 2003

NLP: Keys To Success & The Users Manual For The Brain (day 1 of 2)

Speaker: Richard Bolstad, NLP Trainer
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Sat., July 26th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): 20,000 yen (but 10,000 yen for full time students)
Fee (One-Day members): 20,000 yen (but 10,000 yen for full time students)
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nanzan University 18, Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken; 15 minutes on foot from Irinaka Station
Description: This two-day training seminar is cosponsored by Nanzan University and Nagoya JALT. Richard Bolstad is a world famous NLP trainer. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. For further details, see www.transformations.net.nz/training-in-japan.html or contact (Japanese) Momoko Adachi, koms@sannet.ne.jp, (English) Linda Donan, ldonan@yahoo.com.

Sunday, July 27th, 2003

NLP: Keys To Success & The Users Manual For The Brain (day 2 of 2)

Speaker: Richard Bolstad, NLP Trainer
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Sun., July 27th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): 20,000 yen (but 10,000 yen for full time students)
Fee (One-Day members): 20,000 yen (but 10,000 yen for full time students)
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nanzan University 18, Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken; 15 minutes on foot from Irinaka Station
Description: This two-day training seminar is cosponsored by Nanzan University and Nagoya JALT. Richard Bolstad is a world famous NLP trainer. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. For further details, see www.transformations.net.nz/training-in-japan.html or contact (Japanese) Momoko Adachi, koms@sannet.ne.jp, (English) Linda Donan, ldonan@yahoo.com.

Monday, September 15th, 2003

Cooperative Structures and Language Learning

Speaker: Spencer Kagan
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Mon., September 15th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Aichi
Venue: Aichi Chusho Kigyo Center
Description: Cooperative learning is a natural catalyst for language learning. Cooperative learning structures can be incorporated easily as part of any lesson, with a powerful mpact on comprehensible input and frequency of language output opportunities. Perhaps most importantly, the cooperative structures reduce the affective filter and provide a positive, natural context for language learning. Come learn a range of simple cooperative learning structures that can be included in any lesson to promote language learning, including Draw-A-Gambit, Three Pair Share and Same Different.
This event is co-sponsored by Nagoya, Gifu, and Toyohashi JALT chapters, Teacher Education, Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) and Teaching Children SIGs, JAPANetwork, and Trident Preschool. It is part of the Dr. Spencer Kagan's Japan tour.

Sunday, October 26th, 2003

The General Union, Teacher's Rights, & the Labor Standard Law

Speaker: Representatives of the General Union
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., October 26th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya City Kyouiku-kan
Description: The presenters will discuss what unions do to protect and improve conditions for foreign workers in Japan, and any worker in temporary or insecure employment positions. The Labor Standards Law concerning contracts, wages, working hours, overtime, paid holidays, women's rights and workers accident compensation will be of concern. Also how to protect your rights will be discussed.

Sunday, November 16th, 2003

Language Awareness Activities for the Classroom

Speaker: Deryn P. Verity
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., November 16th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: Learners develop a new perspective on the language they are learning, and, with them, teachers can delve more deeply into how language actually works, when language awareness is regularly included in the EFL curriculum. This participatory workshop will introduce several interesting and thought-provoking activities that can be used with all students from young adult up.

Sunday, December 14th, 2003

My Share: Share Your Ideas

Speaker: "open mike"
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., December 14th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: Come to an "open microphone" end of the year JALT where anyone in the audience can share their favorite lesson ideas, a TESL research topic, or a report of their favorite presentation from JALT 2003 in Shizuoka. Afterwards we will gather at a local restaurant for a bonenkai. Please check this chapter's website for more details.

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