Kitakyushu JALT:

Can Internet Technology Solve Age-Old Teaching Problems?

Date: Saturday, March 11th, 2006 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Speaker: Mark Cowan

Description:
How are teachers evaluated for their classroom performance? Does lesson preparation really matter? Can't I just wing it? How are students' abilities evaluated? Do 1-to-5 or Poor-to-Excellent scale systems have any meaning? Do teachers really evaluate students against a standard benchmark, or are they really comparing students against other students in class?

The presenter will demonstrate two information systems that can provide answers to these questions, but raise many more.

E-LessonPlanner is an online lesson planning system that emails a teacher's lesson plan to his students before their lesson. After the lesson it sends the lesson record and students' attendance to the school's administrator.

E-valuator is a system for evaluating students' language ability. The teacher makes a written evaluation in English and a Japanese copy in emailed to the student. The evaluations cover 7 different learning areas at three different levels.

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

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1,000 yen

Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center, room 31; a 5-minute walk from the Kokura train station (shinkansen, JR train)

Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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