2016/05/29 Third Annual Gunma-Saitama MyShare Event

Gunma Chapter welcomed three presenters from Saitama, and one home-grown speaker, in this second-half of the Saitama-Gunma Dual My Share.

Logical Directives

by Jonathan DeNardis

This presentation introduced a novel replacement for the be-verb/auxiliaries that DeNardis calls Logical Directives. Logical Directives are a new way of teaching the hard-to-teach helping verbs. This tour de force took participants from the common difficulties Japanese have learning English, through circles, dots, lines, and supercomputers, and landed on a cute little character named Tenten.

Jonathan DeNardis can be reached at Jonathan@hardlyenglish.com

Building Friendly Classroom Communities

by Sandra Wigmore & Florence Ito Valderama

This presentation helped participants explore the role of creativity in the classroom, both in the sense of helping students to express their unique creative identity, and also by helping them to think about and use language creatively, through a series of specially designed classroom activities using manipulatives. The activities presented were suitable for a broad range of students, from lower to high levels, and can be used alongside a wide range of course materials.

Sandra Wigmore & Florence Ito Valderrama can be reached at sandra.wigmore@gmail.com and renz17vito@gmail.com respectively

Day to Day Critical Thinking

by Mark Deadman

This presentation showed one teacher's experience starting January 2016 of using Day to Day challenges on the social website medium of Facebook to gather new ideas for critical thinking, teaching and self-reflection. This easy to do self-improvement exercise is free, convenient, accessible and sharing on nature. Participants were shown how it can be tailored it to their own needs.

Mark Deadman can be reached at markdeadman0@gmail.com