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Niigata Chapter Events in 2001

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Sunday, February 4th, 2001

Mini Book Fair

Speaker: Several presenters
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 4th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata Terusa, Niigata City
Description: Presentations and displays by Oxford, Cambridge, and Longman.

Sunday, March 11th, 2001

Looking in Classrooms

Speaker: Bill Brooks
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., March 11th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata International Friendship Centre, Niigata City
Description: Ever wonder what other English teachers of children do in their classrooms? Our March Niigata JALT meeting is your chance to find out. Bill will talk about and show videos of his 3 to 6 year old children's English classes. After the presentation there will be a chance to ask Bill how he has turned his school into such a success that there is a list of students waiting to join!

Sunday, April 8th, 2001

Creating Collaborative Learning Communities

Speaker: Tim Murphey, Nanzan University
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., April 8th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen, students 500 yen
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata International Friendship Center
Description: Teachers can help construct an environment in which "what minds are modeling is made manifest to all." We will explore different ways that teachers can encourage students to make manifest to each other and the teacher what their minds are modeling and what activities are being constructed. Concretely, processes of shadowing and summarizing, action logging and newsletters, and community building techniques will be highlighted.

Sunday, May 13th, 2001

Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook

Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., May 13th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen, students 500 yen
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata International Friendship Center
Description: English instruction is about to become an option for the new "Period for Integrated Studies" in the Japanese public schools. Monbusho has published the "Handbook for Elementary School English Teaching Activities," to provide support to teachers. Merner, a member of the authoring committee, will introduce the handbook, share views about the direction public elementary school English seems to be heading, and introduce results of a survey about the current situation in schools which have already implemented English.

Sunday, June 10th, 2001

Drama Works

Speaker: Carl Nommensen
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Sun., June 10th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata International Friendship Center, Niigata City
Description: Using fun, physical activities, games, and drama to teach vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, body language, grammatical structures, and a bank of high-frequency English expressions, the participants will become students for a couple of Star Taxi scenes. Each scene involves warm-ups and language activities/games before learning and performing a scene - dialog, gestures, and all. Participants will realize that no props or drama experience are necessary, that it's fun, and that their students would love this kind of class too.

Sunday, September 9th, 2001

My Share Brunch

Speaker: Various speakers
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., September 9th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata International Friendship Center, 3F
Description: This brunch is a chance to get together and share teaching ideas. Bring one prepared dish for a pot luck brunch while we socialize.

Sunday, October 14th, 2001

Holiday Fun for Everyone

Speaker: Meg Ishida
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM (Sun., October 14th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata International Friendship Center, 3F
Description: This Christmas workshop with a side of Halloween will give you games, songs, stories and decoration ideas you can use with classes of varying ages. Join the fun and learn how you can make a quick and easy Christmas cake with your students.

Sunday, November 18th, 2001

Stimulus Based Teaching

Speaker: Tessa Woodward
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., November 18th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (students 500 yen)
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in Niigata
Description: Stimulus based teaching is a generative framework which can be applied to any learning/teaching stimulus be it a verb list, a potato, a coursebook or a photo and which saves planning time and gets the most out of any material. In this workshop, Woodward will explain and show the five categories of moves contained in the approach and we will have a chance to try out the framework and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.
This event is part of the Four Corners Tours 2001, which are opportunities for JALT National Conference speakers to visit local JALT chapters throughout the country. (Find more talks by Tessa Woodward.)

Sunday, December 9th, 2001

Niigata Book Fair

Speaker: Various Speakers
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., December 9th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata Bandai Shimin Kaikan, 2nd Fl
Description: Displays and presentations by the top publishers. See the newest course materials and learn how to use them effectively. Get ideas to bring into your own classes.

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