Fall 2012 Workshop

Fall 2012 Workshop co-sponsored by Japanese Program, Irvine Valley College   

Theme: Thematic Unit and Global WorldDate & Time: November 4th, Sunday

Location: Irvine Valley College

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eiko Ushida, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego

Dr. Eiko Ushida

Eiko Ushida is a lecturer of Japanese at Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She teaches intermediate to advanced Japanese courses as well as professional courses including business and politics.She served as a TJSC president in 2008-2010. She has participated in the AP Japanese Reading as a content scoring leader in 2007, and written a number of reviews for Teacher’s Resources in the AP Central and an article on curriculum module for the AP Japanese workshop material. She has been a senior member for the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) online professional development courses called “JOINT” and taught “Content-Based Instruction for Advanced Japanese” and “Basic Concepts of Japanese Language Teaching.” She was also an assistant faculty member for AATJ’s Summer Institute in Urawa, Japan on “Incorporating Culture in the Japanese Language Classroom” in 2010. She will join the AATJ Board as a Professional Development Director starting 2013.

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-9:45 Greetings and Announcement

9:45-11:15 Morning Session: Keynote Lecture 

                “グローバル時代のThematic Unit”     Dr. Eiko Ushida, UC San Diego

                        (1) グローバル時代の日本語教育

                        (2) Thematic Unitとは

                        (3) Thematic Unitの作り方

                        (4) UCSD 大学院生用に作ったThematic Unitの紹介

11:15-11:25 Break

11:25-11:55 APレベルのThematic Unit 実例

            “Energy Conservation”「省エネ」の紹介    Ms. Kyoko Shoji, Notre Dame High School

Ms. Kyoko Shoji

Kyoko Shoji, who has a M.A. in Japanese Pedagogy from Columbia University, is currently a full-time teacher at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. She served as a content scoring leader for the last two years at the AP Japanese Reading, which she has been participating in since 2008. She is a former board member of TJSC and CAJLT. She also served as a course evaluation and annotator on the AP Best Practices World Language Course Study. She is one of the contributors of the curriculum module for the AP Japanese 

11:55-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:30 Afternoon Session: Hands-on Activity

2:30-2:40 Break

2:40-3:00 Peer Evaluation & Comments

3:00-3:20 Reflection

3:20-3:30 Comments, Q&A

3:30-4:00 Evaluation and Closing Remarks