Saturday 6th 2008 Eng-ins Meeting

On Saturday 6th 2008, the Eng-ins group is meeting.  This meeting is open to any and all teachers of English, but this is a group primarily for and ran by Native English Teachers.  The meeting begins at 6pm and ends at 8pm.  The location is the same as last time, we are once again holding the meeting at the Choukominkan.  If you have difficulties finding the location or have further questions please leave a comment and I will answer any questions there.  

Below is a Map and a photo to guide your way.  You can see the building once you cross the tracks.  The building is less than 2 minutes from the station. 

Hope to see some new faces.  Please spread the word.
We are meeting once again at 春日部市中央公民館 (Kasukabe city Chuoukominkan). The station on the map is 八木崎 （Yagisaki station). 

Meeting Update

 

The next Eng-ins meeting is fast approaching. Our next meeting is on the 6^th of December. We are having the meeting in the same place and at the same time. So far, the next meeting is without a theme or a presentation. So it would be nice to hear some of your ideas for the next meeting. If we don’t have anyone presenting that would be fine, because I have a decent back up plan for the meeting. We can create and edit the first Eng-ins podcast. We could make one or two depending on the time.

 

If you have any ideas for the podcast please feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me. I will work up some of the basic formatting for the podcasts and post it latter today or latter this week. I would like to gear the podcast for Jr. High school 2^nd and 3^rd graders, but we can make one for English Teachers in Japan too. Either sounds good to me. And, hopefully this will attract more people to the meetings as well.

 

Well, please brainstorm and let me know what you think. I also welcome the international community at large to provide us with some input. What kinds of things would you like to see or know about English education in Japan? Please leave some comments and provide us with some ideas for the upcoming podcasts.

The Second Eng-ins Meeting Report

The second meeting went extremely well.  At the second meeting five people attended.  So far Eng-ins consists of four "ALT's" and several supporting Japanese English Teachers.  Our primary support is Mr. Okuzumi, without Mr. Okuzumi I think Eng-ins would not be possible or run so smoothly.  We are indebted to Mr. Okuzumi for his support and wealth of experience - or in the very least I am greatly indebted to him. 

At the second meeting we discussed reading and writing exercises.  Mr. Okuzumi and I demonstrated and presented Cosmos.  Most of the time was spent discussing reading and writing exercises and other related discussions.  Unfortunately, there was not enough time to create a podcast.  Perhaps next time we will have extra time.  To conclude the night we ended up at Yakitori pub. 

The next meeting will be held at the same place on the 6th of December.  I hope that more ALT's will show up in the future.  I believe that groups like this can benefit both those who involve themselves and also those whom they teach.  So, please pass the word on.    

Eng-ins Meeting: November 8th at 6pm

This Saturday's meeting will be held at the same place and at the same time.  If you know of anyone that wants to come along bring them or direct them to this Blog.  Here is the general menu for the up coming meeting. 

 

• Round table.  General discussion and current events in everyone's lives. 
• Kei and I will present Cosmos.
• Possible Podcast if we have time.  Please have some ideas ready or simply think about and purpose them at the meeting.  We can do two if we have time, but I would like to do one geared for Jr. High students and one maybe for English Teachers in Japan. 

 

The number of people that show up will determine where we will go after the meeting. 

Please feel free to leave comments below and or contact me for further information.

 

For those who couldn't make it to the last meeting here is the map to the building. We are meeting once again at 春日部市中央公民館 （Kasukabe city Chuouminkan. The station on the map is 八木崎 （Yagisaki station).

 

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