Category: Conference

  • MEES 2017 Information is up

    Please check out our tab for MEES 2017 for a permanent place for all MEES 2017 information. I’ve placed it here as well.

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    2017 Michinoku English Education Summit

    Co-sponsored by the Iwate Chapter of JALT and Hachinohe Gakuin University

    Sunday, June 18, 2017

    at Hachinohe Gakuin University

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    Conference theme:

    “Transformations: Possibilities in Teaching and Learning”

    This year’s conference will explore the themes of change and evolution in language teaching and learning. Topics will address changes related to language pedagogy, perceptions of language education, and/or other relevant topics.

    Plenary speaker:
    Marc Helgesen (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University)

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    PRESENTER LINEUP AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
    (updated)

    Hello everyone !
    Just under a month to go until the 2017 MEES conference ! We want to thank everyone who submitted presentation proposals this year. We are proud to announce our full day’s lineup of six presentations for Sunday, June 18th!

    Please check out the full conference schedule below. The lineup and full presentation descriptions are also attached to this post as 4 separate image files.

    Please also check out details on the pre-conference dinner party (evening of Sat. 17th), shuttle busses to and from the venue, and bento reservations posted here on the Facebook event page.

    Conference Schedule:

    09:00 – 10:00 Registration

    10:00 – 10:10 Opening Comments

    10:10 – 11:10 Plenary Session – Marc Helgesen (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University) ‘DIY NeuroELT – Make Your Text More Brain-friendly’

    11:20 – 11:50 Session 1 – James Hobbs (Iwate Medical University) ‘Neuropsychology and the Nervous Presenter’

    12:00 – 12:30 Session 2 – Robert Walsh (University of Maryland University College-Asia) ‘Service Learning for Higher Education in East Asia’

    12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break (bento available on site)

    13:30 – 14:00 Session 3 – Robert Walsh and Norie Chida (University of Maryland University College-Asia) ‘A Bridge Across Cultures: An Intercultural Interview Project at University of Maryland University College’

    14:10 -14:40 Session 4 – Mike Morris (Hachinohe National Institute of Technology) ‘So You Got Stuck with the English Writing Class’

    14:50 – 15:20 Session 5 – Yukako Kimura (St. Ursula Eiichi Elementary and Middle School) ‘Creating Workshops with Young Learners’

    15:20 – 15:30 Closing Comments

  • Upcoming – Feb 26 – Joël Laurier – Cooperative Learning: a teaching strategy and a learner’s tool

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    Date and Time: Sunday, 26 February 2017– 1:30pm – 4:30pm
    Speaker: Joël Laurier
    Location: AIINA Rm 602 (map https://goo.gl/maps/kEQo5UV2jPr)
    Fee for JALT members: Free
    Fee for one-day members: 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)

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    2370963Administrators want improved student performance; parents want improved social skills instilled in their children; teachers want better performing students that are more autonomous; and students want to show everyone what they can do. But in this world of budgets over educational outcomes, standardized tests, and constant academic competition, teachers are faced with numerous constraints that make most of the above desires unattainable. But are they really?

    As more and more research is being conducted on multiple intelligences and effective group work, Cooperative Learning (CL) has proven itself as an effective teaching approach that involves students using social skills in interdependent groupings, and achieving better results.  The classroom then becomes an interactive stage for students to learn and use social skills while demonstrating more meaningful learning.

    This hands-on workshop is aimed at teachers of all academic levels, and will benefit who have varying levels of students in their class. It will show attendees how they can use CL to increase active participation between students while instilling a positive learning environment that leads to better achievement results. Attendees will be shown effective CL structures that make learning the student’s responsibility, and leave the teacher ’s concern.

    Joël Laurier teaches in the Leaning English for Academic Purposes (LEAP) program at Toyo University. He is a two time Kagan Academy Cooperative Learning Scholarship winner. His research interests include cooperative learning, language policy and bilingualism.

  • Upcoming – Nov 20 – 21 Fall Events with Sarah Mercer

    While Iwate JALT itself has no events in Morioka this month, there are a couple of events in the Tohoku region, we are work with. Please check them out if you are in the area.

     

    The first is in Sendai

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    The second is in Aomori with Iwate JALT as a sponsor.

     

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