Hamamatsu Chapter

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Hamamatsu Chapter Events in 2005

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Sunday, February 13th, 2005

My Share Activities: Successes and Failures

Speaker: Various Speakers
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., February 13th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (1st visit is free)
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: In this meeting, all teachers are asked to bring along descriptions of both their successful classroom learning activities as well as those which flopped. By examining both types we hope to learn more about how to be successful.

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

Teaching Forum on Japanese Perspectives

Speaker: Various
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., April 10th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (1st visit is free)
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: In this meeting, a panel of Japanese teachers from various levels of the education system will address some of those frequently pondered questions about their teaching situations in order to provide insights and answers. If you have questions you'd like the panel to address, please post them on the Hamamatsu JALT website.

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

New easy and fun activities

Speaker: Amy Jenkins
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., July 10th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: This workshop will give you fun ideas for speaking, listening, reading and writing activities. The presenter will demonstrate a number of activities that require minimal preparation time. These activities can be used for a number of ages, levels and classroom settings. In addition, the activities can be used as warm ups, time fillers, or part of a more structured class. A detailed handout of the activities will be provided for participants. It is hoped that participants will also be able to share their own ideas and versions too.

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

On 'communicative' in Communicative Language Teaching

Speaker: Jim Smiley
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., September 11th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: This presentation will focus on the ever-evolving term of 'communicative' and look at how this ambiguous term has recently taken on a new meaning in terms of language learning. This re-introduction will be followed by a chance for teachers to view the term in relation to what it means to them, how it affects their teaching methodology and subsequently apply the analysis to published texts. We hope it will give you an invaluable opportunity to reflect on this taken-for-granted but rarely discussed concept in language teaching.

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Development of classroom teaching skills

Speaker: David Barker
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., November 20th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: This presentation will focus on how teachers can make sure they don�ft fall into bad habits by increasing their awareness of what they actually do in the classroom. We will focus on specific elements of teaching practice such as lesson planning, use of materials, teacher behavior, and the setting up and monitoring of student activities. It is aimed at both experienced and new teachers who are concerned about a lack of opportunity for the development of classroom teaching skills in their current environment.

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

Orientation for College Studies outside the Classroom

Speaker: Steve Brown
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., December 18th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: In this presentation, Steve Brown describes and evaluates an orientation programme for incoming students in the English Department of a women�fs junior college. The programme was aimed at fostering students' awareness of their own learning styles, and also at alerting them to alternative approaches to learning English.

This won�ft be a one-way presentation. Steve will show some of the approaches used in the programme - active participation is encouraged! He also hopes to share ideas for ways in which this kind of programme might work in other contexts and institutions.

Jalt Open Mike

The presentation will be followed by an Open Mike session, when everyone can have chance to ask questions, suggest ideas and share their concerns, complaints and opinions. Enjoy a no-holds-barred session with JALT�fs current President, Steve Brown!

Brief Bio

Steve Brown is a Professor at Konan Women�fs University in Kobe and is currently JALT�fs President. He�fs been teaching in Japan for 20 years and before that in the UK and Kuwait. He�fs interested in autonomy in language learning and has been Coordinator of the Learner Development SIG, as well as serving as Site Chair and Programme Chair at recent national conferences.

After Steve's presentation on Sunday all members are invited to attend a lunch with Steve.

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