2010 Japanese Teachers Training Courses

日本語教師養成講座

Tuition:
$390* for Japan Society members
$430 for nonmembers.
(additional $20 may apply for textbooks and materials)
*For tuition discount, please contact our Membership Office (212-715-1270).

Course Descriptions (PDF)
Registration Form (PDF)

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April 27 – May 27, 2010
Tuesdays & Thursdays
10 am – 1 pm or 2 – 5 pm

The Japan Society will offer a 30-hour intensive teacher training session for native or fluent speakers of Japanese.  The program is designed to be a practical course for those who wish to learn essential classroom teaching skills in order to teach Japanese in classroom or individual settings, and who have had little or no formal training in the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language.  This program is an introductory course in Japanese-language teaching, so no prior teaching experience is required.  Participants who complete this program may have an opportunity in the future to become teaching assistants at the Toyota Language Center.

The program will focus on practical techniques such as planning lessons, the use of drills, audio and visual aids, classroom activities and the teaching of kana and kanji.  Due to student demand, there will be two different class times this spring. Sessions will be held twice weekly, either from 10 am - 1 pm or from 2 - 5 pm, from April 27 through May 27, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The textbooks used in this course are Japanese for Busy People, Volume I (Revised 3rd Edition, Romanized), edited by AJALT (Association of Japanese Language Teachers) and Teacher’s Manual (for the Revised 3rd Edition) of Japanese for Busy People, Volume I.

The Japanese-language instructors teaching this course are:

Ms. Yuko Aizawa has taught at the Sendagaya Japanese Institute in Tokyo, Japan and at the Royal Hawaiian Academy in the United States.  She has been teaching at the Japan Society since 1994. She will supervise student practice sessions.

Ms. Mami Miyashita earned a Japanese Teaching License in Japan, a certificate of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language from Ohio State University and a Master’s Degree from West Chester University. She has been involved with foreign language education for more than nineteen years, most recently at the University of Delaware from 1999 to 2005.   
         
The following instructors will also join as lecturers:

Ms. Reiko Akai has a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics, and has worked in the private sector in Japan. She has taught Japanese in Japan, and has been a private tutor of Japanese in the United States for five years. Ms. Akai is also a graduate of this Japanese-Language Teacher Training Program in 2003.

Ms. Keiko Hama has taught Japanese in Germany and the US for over ten years.  She received her MA in Japanese Sociology and Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg. Since then, she has been an interpreter, translator and Japanese teacher in the private and public sector.

For more details, please call (212) 715-1256 or (212) 715-1293
（日本語の説明は次のページをごらんください）

ジャパン・ソサエティーでは４月２7日から集中「日本語教師養成講座」を開きます。参加資格は日本語を母国語とする方、又はそれと同等の日本語を話せる方で、日本語教師としての経験の無い方、又は多少の経験のみをお持ちの方を対象とします。講座修了後は
ジャパン・ソサエティーの日本語クラスに先生の助手として参加することが出来ます。

ジャパン・ソサエティー　トヨタ語学センターは米国最大の日本語教育機関として、多くのレベルに分類された様々な日本語クラスを１年を通して行っております。「日本語教師養成
講座」は初級クラスをどのように教えるかに焦点を当てて授業計画の立て方、教室での授業法、練習問題や宿題、副教材の作り方、オーディオ教材や教科書の使い方、仮名や漢字の教え方等、初級日本語を教える際に役立つ様々な事項をわかり易く説明し、模擬教室での実技訓練に力を入れます。全３０時間の講座は相沢裕子先生と宮下まみ先生の講座と実技指導を中心に行い、受講生の実技のクラスにハマー敬子先生と赤井麗子先生の参加も予定しております。先生方の紹介は英文の一面をご参照下さい。

期間：４月２７日から５月２７日まで、毎週火曜・木曜

時間：午前１０時から午後１時、または午後２時から５時。全３０時間

授業料：ジャパン・ソサエティー会員および法人会員：＄３９０、一般：＄４３０

授業料のほかに教科書２冊：    Japanese for Busy People, Volume I (Revised 3rd Edition Romanized)

及び同教科書のTeacher’s Manual (for the Revised 3rd Edition)
の費用として＄２０が加算されます。この２冊の教科書を既に
お持ちの方はご購入の必要はありません。

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