Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Oct. 12-15 2012, Act City, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
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Helping our students to develop as self-regulated learners able to successfully engage with learning tasks involves helping them to acquire certain skills, strategies and approaches that they can apply both in and out of the classroom. This is important both for contributing to positive academic outcomes, and for building and sustaining motivation. One way to achieve this is to introduce resources that make explicit to students what they are expected to learn in a course, and the processes they can use to facilitate and assess their progress. Based on their experiences, the presenters will lead participants through the steps involved in developing one such resource. The model to be considered, a study progress guide, incorporates can-do statements to help students and teachers clearly understand curriculum goals and requirements, along with goal-setting and self-reflective processes aimed at building awareness, and encouraging implementation, of (meta-)cognitive knowledge and strategies seen as necessary for self-regulated learning.
After a brief conceptual overview and introduction to the study progress guide, we will work with a text to identify key components that can be transformed into can-do statements, an activity replicable with any classroom material. Consideration will also be given to how other materials and activities can be incorporated into the guide to deal with differing learning situations and learner needs.
Paul Collett has been teaching at the university-level in Japan for a number of years. His current research interests relate to the psychology of the language learner and social factors influencing self-regulation.
Kristen Sullivan is a lecturer at Shimonoseki City University and co-writer of Impact Conversation 1 & 2. She is interested in the teaching, learning and assessment of speaking, as well as interactions between language learner identity and language use.
Not many of us are teacher trainers in technology, but many of us have introduced new technology to our colleagues or students. How do we help teachers and students to become more independent users of technology? How to we introduce technology to the wary or uninterested so that the technology is adopted rather than neglected or even rejected? In this event, we hope to shed light on these questions.
In the first half of today's event, we will participate in the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG's webinar entitled Implementing Information and Communications Technology in an Institution. In the second half of today's event, the panel will each give a short talk relating the webinar content to their own experiences in this area, followed by questions, comments and general discussion. After our event, all participants are invited out to a nearby kebab shop for a social beer.
All participants will be able to follow along with the webinar on a large screen and overhead projector. Participants who have laptops or mobile devices can also log on while sitting in the audience, which means that they can individually take part in the text chat window at the same time.
CHANGE OF VENUE We've had a last-minute change of venue. We'll be in the Seinan Community Center, which is where we usually have our events, but we'll be on the 1st floor, in the auditorium.
For more information on the IATEFL webinar, see here.
This joint JALT / Apple Store Workshop will introduce iCloud. The presenter will demonstrate how iCloud stores, syncs, and shares music, pictures, documents, calendars, apps, contacts and mails across multiple devices.
Spaces are limited to 14 attendees, so please contact Kate early to reserve your spot.
This presentation will cover the current state of the e-book industry, the pluses and minuses of publishing electronically, as well as the nuts and bolts of publishing and promoting your works.
Aonghas Crowe is a writer, blogger, translator, and teacher. He has been working for Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University Junior College since 2011.
In this presentation, Anne-Marie Tanahashi will talk about the Moodle site she uses and why she likes it. The audience will have a chance to see:
Also, the presenter will talk about a Narrow Listening project she set up with some motivated students. It all started with voice-recorders and the burning of CDs, but now has moved to the Moodle site making it accessible to all students at the university.
In this session, Barbara Sakamoto will demonstrate the small ways that she has incorporated technology tools in her classes with young learners. Since she only sees her students for one hour each week, and technology tools can be time eaters (especially when neither the teacher nor the learners are tech savvy), she tends to bring in tools only when she thinks they'll improve on what they're already doing in class. She will explore actual projects that her students have created using Voicethread, Glogster, Xtranormal and blogs, including an overview of the lesson leading up to the project, and how each project enhanced her students' learning experience.
Barb Hoskins Sakamoto is co-author of Let's Go (OUP), one of the world's best-selling English courses for children. An EFL teacher and teacher trainer since 1985, she has conducted workshops throughout Asia, the U.S. and Latin America. Her motto is "Always try new things," so these days, when she's not teaching, writing, or giving workshops, you'll often find her online exploring the potential of social media for professional development. If you'd like to explore with her, you can usually find her on her blog, Teaching Village, her wiki, on Twitter or Facebook, or in Second Life.
Change of date and venue:We've moved the event back one week to October 28th, and we've moved the venue to Seinan Gakuin University in Nishijin.
Over 30 presentations on the theory and practice of teaching and learning languages. Topics include Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Linguistics; Classroom Management; and more.
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