The Fourth Online Get-Together

Calling all secondary school teachers of Japanese! We will be holding a fourth Online Get-Together. This is a great opportunity to talk with your colleagues about your work in a relaxed, casual setting. We hope you can use this as a chance to talk about any issues you are facing in the classroom, exchange information on exams, and more.

As well as group discussion sessions, Ms Anne Rajakumar will be giving a talk on the theme of: “How to make your lesson effective – Integrating the use of online resources into your teaching (Flipped Learning) -“.

About the speaker

Anne Rajakumar has been teaching Japanese for over thirty years, in both Australia and the UK. She is the author of the successful Australian primary-level workbooks, Yonde Kaite, and has a website and Youtube channel which hosts a wealth of material to support the GCSE and International Baccalaureate Japanese programmes. Until giving up classroom teaching last year, Anne was the Head of Japanese at Hockerill Anglo-European College and since then she has focussed on teaching online. For the past seven years making online resources to support ‘Flipped Learning’ in the classroom has been a major focus of her work, and she has integrated the use of online resources into her teaching (Flipped Learning) to great effect. 

Date:

–          5th February 2022 (Saturday), 10:00-11:30 (BST) (main event), 11:30-12:00 (optional post-event discussion session)  

Schedule:

–          First half: Presentation by Ms Anne Rajakumar

–          Second half: Group discussion

To apply, please click here:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/QQ70RN/

Participation fee: Free (Registration in advance is required.)

Registration Deadline: 25^th January 2022

Languages used: English will be used in the main presentation, but some parts of the event will be in Japanese.

You can read some comments from participants of the previous Online Get-Togethers below:

·           It was really good to join in with fellow Japanese colleagues from around the country (and world!) and listen and see in Japanese how these colleagues created and use these resources.

·           I spent a hugely worthwhile time getting to talk with other teachers that I do not often get a chance to meet and exchange new information.

·           I have gotten a lot of ideas and tips from the speaker’s presentation. Thanks to the presentation I think I can improve my teaching skills to encourage my pupils to learn more!