Event

Creative Teaching for 21st Century Learners

Saturday, October 17th, 2015, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Speaker: Barbara Sakamoto (author of the popular Let's Go! series for children)

There's a lot of talk these days about including 21st century skills in language classes. What are these skills, and do they have any place in a language class where teachers have limited contact time, and the priority is, still, to teach English? In this workshop, teachers will learn teaching techniques to help their learners become strong English users and also critical and creative thinkers. By making every moment of class time count, teachers can help students succeed, on exams and in future jobs. Teachers can build both the traditional four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) and the 21st century 4Cs (communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking) in every class.

The secret is building a strong English foundation, so that teachers can spend most of your class time using language to develop the more advanced (and more fun!) integrated skills in student-generated projects. We'll explore simple teaching techniques to do this and look at actual student projects. Teachers will have a chance to try out techniques and activities, so come prepared to participate.

Social Event
Everyone is invited to come to the after-event social:

• Place: Shokudokukan Yawaraku
• Address: 3-3-14 Tenjin, Chuo-ku (2F Hotel Ascent Fukuoka) (
• Type: Izakaya-fusion (all you can eat & drink)
• Price: 3,200 yen (incl. tax)
• Time: 19:15- (2 hours)
• RSVP: by 16:00 Friday, October 16

We hope you'll come!

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

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: free (sponsored by Oxford University Press)

Venue: Office Hummingbird, Room 602 in the Tenjin Nishimo building (in Tenjin on Showa Dori, between Oyafuku-dori and Futata; map)

Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Contact Fukuoka JALT

Trevor Holster