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ELT Calendar for Kyoto City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Kyoto City.

January 27th (Sunday) 2019

TESOL (Young Learners): Lesson planning
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: Teachers will look at effective lesson planning, create lesson plans, and demonstrate how the lessons would be carried out in practice.

TESOL (Young Learners): Being an effective teacher
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: Teachers will look at the role of the teacher in class, and at how to manage difficult classes. This will include the way we interact with students, the example we set, our role in activities etc.

February 24th (Sunday) 2019

TESOL (Young Learners): Getting your students to speak out
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Lori Ligon
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: As an English teacher, one thing that we all struggle with is getting our students to speak. Teachers will look at some techniques to get students start talking.

TESOL (Young Learners): Storytelling for young learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Lori Ligon
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: Using storytelling as a powerful tool to develop language learning skill by increasing verbal proficiency, enhancing listening skills and incorporating target language.

March 24th (Sunday) 2019

TESOL (Young Learners): Planning and integrating language games and activities
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: A hands-on workshop where groups of teachers will be assigned language targets, work together to design activities for introducing and practicing the targets, and then demonstrate them.

TESOL (Young Learners): Planning and integrating songs
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: How can we fully integrate songs into our lessons? This is a hands-on lessons where teachers will work in groups to modify and come up with songs that fit assigned language targets.

Groups Active In Kyoto City

Listed in decreasing order by the number of events on ELT Calendar by each group in Kyoto City. (The ELT Calendar database goes back to 2001.)

• Kyoto JALT (90 events)
• ETJ Kyoto (35 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (24 events)
• National JACET (6 events)
• Peace as a Global Language Conference (6 events)
• Oxford University Press (5 events)
• Pearson Japan (5 events)
• Evolution of Language (4 events)
• Task-Based Learning SIG of JALT (4 events)
• CALL SIG of JALT (3 events)
• Extensive Reading Foundation (3 events)
• Kansai LET (3 events)
• Kansai JACET (3 events)
• Kyoto Notre Dame University English Language and Literature Association (3 events)
• Research Group for Teaching Conversation in Japan (3 events)
• Bilingualism SIG of JALT (2 events)
• Cambridge English Language Assessment - JP004 (Luna International) (2 events)
• CUE SIG of JALT (2 events)
• PanSIG Conference (2 events)
• Testing and Evaluation SIG of JALT (2 events)
• The Japan Second Language Association (2 events)
• GALE SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science (LEIS) at Ritsumeikan University (1 event)
• Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (1 event)
• Japan Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (1 event)
• JSL SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (1 event)
• Kyoto Institute of Technology (1 event)
• Kyoto University (1 event)
• Learner Development SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Literature in Language Teaching SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Macmillian LanguageHouse (1 event)
• Maruzen Bookshops (1 event)
• OUP Kids' Club (1 event)
• Society of Writers, Editors and Translators (1 event)
• Teacher Development SIG of JALT (1 event)