Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Oct. 12-15 2012, Act City, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
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This one-day mini-conference hosted by Shizuoka JALT and the JALT Teacher Education and Development(TED) Special Interest Group is intended to spark new conversations around the broad theme of EFL Teacher Journeys. Presentations will recount stories of teacher journeys, either the presenter’s own, those of students or classes, or other teachers.
We stand at the front of our classrooms looking at our students, hoping to understand what they are thinking about our thoughtfully chosen materials and our carefully created activities. Observing students in this way can help us build a picture of what they do, but it cannot really help us understand what they think or feel. As an alternative, occasional short questionnaires combined with short regular student reflections can provide a small but useful window into our students' minds and hearts. This workshop will illustrate how to create and use such questionnaires and student reflections in your classroom, to better understand your own teaching and your students' learning.
Marcos will outline his how his experience as an ESL learner influenced his approach to teaching, and in turn how both continue to inform his work as a writer of ELT materials. This presentation will be of interest to most teachers at any level, but especially to those who want to explore some of the complex connections between learners, teachers, and coursebooks.
Psychodrama is a therapeutic technique conceived and developed by Jacob L. Moreno, MD. Using experiential guided drama techniques, psychodrama provides a safe, supportive environment in which participants can practice new roles, language and behaviors, thus facilitating insight, personal growth, and integration.
The presenter will discuss the ways to facilitate students’ creative thinking and improve their English skills with the help of some video material (short clips from the Internet). It is always difficult to engage students in any language learning situation if they consider the activities too difficult, dull, or unrealistic.
Annual Year-end meeting where members gather and share an activity, idea, project, or anything else that is on their minds. This is followed by a social at another location T.B.A.
list of presentations:
- David Stephens – One Language Card Set, Several Game Variations
JALT2012 is NPO JALT's 38th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition. The conference is scheduled for 12 – 15 October 2012 at ACT City, Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture.
Positive, motivated students -- engaged in what they are studying and with each other -- learn more. How do we facilitate that positive attitude in the language classroom? This activity-based session looks at ways positive psychology (TIME magazine calls it "The Science of Happiness") can be combined with clear language learning goals for active, invested learning. This is more than "positive self-talk". It is sharing with our students the concrete behaviors that happy people engage in. A handout of 20 positive psychology ELT activities will be provided. :-)
Daniel Pink in his book DRIVE (2009) writes about how education and business have not kept up with research finding on motivation. Yes, we still sometimes are motivated by the old carrot and stick (positive reinforcement and threat of punishment) but more and more we are seeing people acting altruistically and irrationally refusing the carrots and not caring about the sticks. I will talk about ways to tap into these new ways of conceiving motivation and give examples in education.
If critical thinking activities don’t lead to changes in behavior & real world action, are they of true value? Maybe not.
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