Monday, March 11, 2013

Songs, Chants, Movements, Games and Phonics World

What is a teaching theme? The teaching theme or a unit approach provides the content and a framework for organizing learning activities and integrating different areas of the curriculum. Through a broad range of target language, a variety of experiences, and active involvement children are able to develop communicative skills. Teaching themes should be based on children's interests and should be appropriate to their background experiences and developmenta level.
Join this workshop and Marco will teach you how different methods and materials could be adapted for your teaching theme and how you can select the most meaningful activities for your class and write lesson plans for the "theme" or "unit".  Kaj Schwermer (co-author of Phonics World) will share with you effective phonics instruction and activities that you can use in the classroom right away.


When: Sunday, July 7, 2013
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue:  Tsukuba Science Information Center
              Azuma 1-10-1 
              Tsukuba City, Ibaraki-ken          
Fee:  1,000 yen



Seven (7) Great Strategies For Getting Children Use English In The Classroom

Seven (7) Great Strategies for Getting Children Use English in the Classroom, is a workshop of ideas and approaches for teaching children. Throughout the presentation, Marco will remind us of what it is to be a teacher for children -- and help us adapt different teaching styles to accomodate the needs and motivations of young learners. The workshop will offer practical, hands-on advice on useful techniques and approaches in the classroom. All the activities that will be suggested during the workshop can be adapted and used with any level of learners, by any teachers.

When: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Time:  1:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue:  Ashikaga Shimin Plaza
              Asakura-cho 264, Ashikaga-shi
              Tochigi-ken 326-0823
Fee: 2,000 yen

When: Sunday, July 21, 2013
Time: 1:30 am - 4:30 pm
Venue:  2F Heartful Square (East Wing Gifu JR Station)
              Hashimoto 1-10-23
              Gifu-shi, Gifu
Fee: 2,000 yen


When:  Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Time:  10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue:  5F Fukufuku Plaza, Room 502
              Fukuoka-shi
Fee:  2,000 yen

Creative Classroom and A Happy Valley Teaching Expo

Catherine Littlehale Oki, co-author of Happy Valley, will be introducing lots of music, games and other activities. She’ll spend part of the presentation sharing the main features of the three books in the Happy Valley series to illustrate how effective it is with young ones. She will incorporate loads of teaching tips you can put into action immediately. This workshop is a chance to see how singing, dancing and playing contribute to making our classrooms the right environment for children to thrive.

When:  Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Time:  10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue:  Tsukuba Science Information Center
               1-10-1 Azuma
              Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken
Fee:  1,000 yen