JALT West Tokyo Chapter
Officers
President: Peter Ross
Facilities Chair: Jason La Greca 
Mailing List Officer: Andy Boon
Membership Chair: Yoko Mochizuki
Publicity Chair: Jason La Greca
Program Chair: Andy Boon
Treasurer: Alan Stoke
Contact:
<westtokyojalt-owner@yahoogroups.com>
<wtokyo@jalt.org>
Upcoming Events
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JALT West Tokyo Chapter is pleased to present Micro-Conference #7:
Teacher Development: Perceptions and Reflections
Date -
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Time -
10:00am - 5:45pm
Speakers -
Dr. John Fanselow, Dean Charles, Clair Taylor, & Andy Boon
Fee -
JALT members and TKU faculty: free
One-day members (i.e. non-members): 2,000 yen
Venue -
Tokyo Keizai University, Daiichi Kenkyuu Center, Room 1310
Access from Kokubunji Station -
To open an access map, click here or here. (On these maps, "GS" = "gas station".)
To open a campus map, click here.
Contact -
<westtokyojalt-owner@yahoogroups.com>,
or 070-5572-2882 on the day
The West Tokyo Chapter and Tokyo Chapter announce the seventh in a series of micro-conferences, each featuring several presenters exploring a particular topic for a whole day. The theme of this conference is teacher development through neuro-linguistic processing, action research, reflective practice and transcript analysis.
JALT(全国語学教育学会)西東京支部と東京支部が共同で開催する
第7回マイクロ・コンファレンスのお知らせです。今回も複数の発表者が、
一つのトピックを探求します。4月のテーマは、脳の言語機能を解明する
神経言語学的処理のＮＬＰなどを通じた教師の成長を紹介します。
10:00-10:15
Doors open
10:15-12:15
NLP and Teacher Perception
Dean Charles - British Council
Neuro-linguistic programming is an attitude of mind that can be used to maximise and consistently apply best practice, as human beings in general and as teachers in particular. In this workshop we will look at the teaching experience through the stages of lesson planning/preparation, being in the learning environment and post-lesson reflection. Applying NLP, we will examine how to develop the teaching skills that we have in these areas and attain the teaching skills that we don't yet have. The workshop will be practical and will supply participants with an NLP 'starter kit' for further research into their own teaching practice.
12:15-13:15
Lunch
13:15-14:00
Your Baseline Teaching State
Clair Taylor - Toyo Gakuen University
In humanistic approaches to teaching ‘state’ is central. Your 'state' includes the way you are thinking, feeling, holding your body and breathing at any time. This state can affect your students and their participation and output in your classes. In this presentation, I will summarize the results of an action research project showing how teacher state change led to improved conversational flow in an English Lounge setting. I will invite participants to explore their own baseline teaching state and experiment with a state change activity.
14:15-15:00
On Becoming Reflective
Andy Boon - Toyo Gakuen University
In the act of teaching, we have little time to reflect on the successes, failures or puzzles that occur within our classes, and valuable opportunities for gaining insights into our pedagogic practice can be lost. There is a need, therefore, for practical ways to help us think back, to explore these experiences more deeply, and to discover what is actually happening in our classrooms. This presentation discusses the process of becoming reflective and examines a number of strategies that can be used by teachers to facilitate critical reflection on their teaching and discover new possibilities there.
15:15-17:15
Take 1, Take 2, Take 3
Dr. John Fanselow - Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Teachers College, U.S.A.
Authors of articles about classroom interaction tend to present only one interpretation of the transcripts they analyze. However, when I asked a range of ESOL/EFL teachers to interpret 3 transcripts from articles on classroom interaction, no one interpreted them in the same way the authors did. We should not be surprised that we all see data differently. When different people experience dialog in plays and movies, they tend to interpret the interactions in a range of ways. Why should it be any different for the conversations in our classrooms? In this workshop, I will present the 3 transcripts, as well as a 3-stage process for moving beyond one-dimensional interpretations. I will also invite participants to apply the process to a dialog between a teacher and a supervisor so that each person can better understand the 3-stage process, and to show how analyzing transcripts of teacher/supervisor interaction can facilitate professional development.
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