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| Ellen_Atama | Social | 12 | Jun 5 2009, 2:47 AM EDT by KantoCanuck | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 27 2009, 12:40 AM EDT
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Do you plan to have a conference dinner? I think we need information about that and accommodation to go up on the participant website fairly swiftly!
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| mickstout | Japanese Teachers of English and Native English Speaking Teachers | 6 | Mar 3 2009, 11:41 PM EST by SteveWWilliams | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 12 2008, 6:09 PM EDT
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How can we encourage greater co-operation between Japanese Teachers of English and Native English Speaking Teachers?
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| mickstout | Conference and workshops as professional development | 15 | May 31 2008, 6:27 AM EDT by leanderhughes | ||||
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How can we encourage school administrators, Boards of Education, and the Ministry of Education to give teachers some kind of credit for attending conferences and professional development workshops?
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| mickstout | Using technology to connect | 5 | May 11 2008, 5:30 AM EDT by leanderhughes | ||||
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Web 2.0 technology, google docs, wikis, social networking for education websites, blogs and a host of other technologies make it easier for disconnected people to connect. However, some school servers block some of these applications, google docs for example. Using the internet to connect would be advantageous in many ways. In Japan, often colleagues sharing office space can't connect face-to-face. Most schools have internal networks but these networks are inaccessible to most foreign teachers. Long-term residents of Japan could safely be expected to overcome the difficulties they have using internal networks but short-term residents including JETs cannot. Is technology a viable way to connect?
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| mickstout | Support for teachers teaching in primary schools | 2 | Apr 14 2008, 10:02 AM EDT by mickstout | ||||
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English is being introduced into primary schools in Japan despite the fact that many Japanese primary school teachers are not proficient in English and have no training in ELT. Tim Murphey cowrote an article (Murphey, T., Asaoka, C., & Sekiguchi, M. (2004). Primary teachers co-learning English with their students. The Language Teacher, 28(2), 15-18.) that brings up a number of interesting questions and answers regarding this situation. How practical is it to expect primary teachers to willingly accept co-learning English with their students? What other ways can we as a community provide support for primary school teachers? What challenges do JETs face when teaching in primary schools?
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