Reflective Practice workshop with Thomas Farrell

The JALT Teacher Development SIG are excited to announce that we will be hosting a Reflective Practice workshop with Thomas Farrell. The event is free for JALT and/or Toyo University employees, or 500 yen for non-JALT members.

The event will take place at Toyo University’s Hakusan Campus, in room 1603 (Building 1, 6th floor). Entry is from 18:30.

To help with event organisation, registration is encouraged but not required. Registration is open until Sunday, 7th October. Please use the following link or the QR code to register.

Teacher Journeys 2018

Teacher Journeys 2018 and Call for Co-Sponsors Next Year

On Sunday June 3, TD held its biggest annual event, Teacher Journeys, at Rikkyo University with co-sponsors Tokyo JALT. The conference was attended by about 50 people, and featured plenary talks by Dr. Christina Gkonou of the University of Essex, and Dr. Tomohisa Machida of Akita International University, along with sixteen presentations in four sessions throughout the day. Look forward to proceedings of the conference to be published in ETD in the coming months.

Currently we are looking for chapters to partner up with for Teacher Journeys 2019. Please get in touch with program chair Mike Ellis (maikeru.desu@gmail.com) if you’d like to bring the conference to your area next year.

TD SIG Support for Reflective Practice Meetings

Do you have a teacher reflective practice or development group that meets regularly? Would you like to start one? The TD SIG would like to help!

We offer funding (up to 5,000 yen) for coffee/snacks at such meetings as a way to support teachers getting together to talk about their work and to help build teacher communities around Japan.

You would need to submit receipts for whatever you purchase. And we would also ask you to submit a brief account of the gathering (who attended? what was discussed? are there plans for more meetings?) for the TD SIG newsletter. Photos would also be appreciated.

Please contact Mike Ellis at maikerudesu@gmail.com for more details.