Event

The Annual Tenri University - Nara JALT Joint Seminar 2012: Reconsidering the Standards of Teaching

Sunday, January 29th, 2012, 12:40 PM - 5:50 PM

Speaker: Various speakers

Schedule:

12:40-13:00 Opening Addresses

13:00-13:30 Presentation 1:
Kazuya Nakakono (Unebi Junior High School)
Looking Back at My First Year as a Junior High Teacher

13:40-14:20 Presentation 2:
Yasuhiro Sakata (Takada High School)
Pronunciation Practice for the High School Students Who Want to Be Elementary School Teachers

14:30-15:10 Presentation 3:
Takashi Yamamoto, Misa Naruse, and Motoyasu Saito (Tenri High School)
Towards Establishing the a Unified Syllabus for the Whole School

15:20-16:00 Workshop/Presentation 4:
Matthew Apple (Nara National College of Technology)
To Use Tech or Not to Use Tech: Is This Even the Right Question?
This part-lecture, part-workshop will first offer a set of criteria for assessing the use of technology in the language classroom, after which participants will be invited to examine a list of potential language learning activities and discuss what technology could be used to help the learning process.

16:10-17:40 Presentation 5:
Jyuichi Suzuki (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Improving Teaching Procedures through Self-evaluation
Jyuichi Suzuki, vice-president of the Kansai English Language Education Society (KELES), has been advocating the use of self-evaluation on the part of English teachers in order to improve the procedures of everyday teaching in language classes. He is going to give us some advice, which helps us reconsider the "standard" procedures of our teaching.

17:50-18:50 Snack party and informal discussion session

For further details or to register, please contact Hidetami Nakai of Tenri University at: h-nakai@sta.tenri-u.ac.jp (To register, please just write your name and "I will attend").

Directions:
For directions to the event, please refer to the Tenri Uni's official homepage (map). If you drive, first go to the Tenri City Hall, which is on the route 169 (Nara to Tenri to Sakurai). Turn left if you are coming from Nara and go along the Gingo avenue for about a kilometer, then you'll get to the Tenrikyo Headquaters. Tenri University is across the street. Or, if you get off at Tenri Higashi Intersection of Meihan highway, and drive along for about 2 miles, then you'll hit Isonokami Shrine. You can see Tenri Uni from there. You'll see the two tall chimneys. Just turn right at the first traffic signal in front of the Shrine. From there you'll find the event posters.

Note: Tenri Univ has two campuses: 1) the PE Department right behind Tenri Station and 2) the Somanouchi campus in front of the Tenrikyo Headquarters (kyokai-honbu). The venue is the Somanouchi campus near Isonokami Shrine. If you come by train, walk up the main arcade up to the Headquarters. It takes about 25 minutes on foot, or 5-10 minutes by taxi.

Organization: Nara Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Nara JALT)

Cost: free

Venue: Tenri University, Somanouchi Campus, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture (map)

Location: Tenri City, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Contact Nara JALT

General Nara Chapter email