Professional Development SIG

ATJ Professional Development SIG Meeting and Seminar at AAS

The ATJ Professional Development SIG Meeting will be held from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. on Friday, March 28th at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in New York. The meeting does not require AAS registration and is open to all SIG members and those who are interested in professional development. Non-SIG members are encouraged to become SIG members. To join the Professional Development SIG, please send e-mail to Y.-H. Tohsaku at ytohsaku@ucsd.edu with your name, affiliation, e-mail address, and membership (ATJ, NCJLT, or both).

Place:
Murray Hill Room B, in New York Hilton

Schedule:
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Business Meeting
8:30 - 8:45 p.m. Break
8:45 - 10:15 p.m. Seminar
10:15 - 11:00 p.m. Wrap-up and free discussion

Business Meeting Agenda:
1. Remarks by SIG chair
2. Current issues (NBPTS, NCATE, INTASC, etc.)
3. Reports from members
4. SIG membership and administrative structure
5. Future SIG activities
6. Future SIG meetings
7. Other business

SIG Seminar:
1. "Benkyookai": Professional Development Opportunity Online
Keiko Schneider (Albuquerque TVI Community College, New Mexico)
2. On Teaching Prosody: from a Pilot Study on Japanese Teachers' and Non-teachers' Perception of Learners' Pronunciation
Mieko Kawai (University of Arizona)
3. Nihongo Kyoiku ni okeru IT riterashii no koojoo - Zenbei no IT no genjoo to kyooin yoosei no tenboo
Yasuhiro Omoto (University of California, Berkeley)
Keiko Schneider (Albuquerque TVI Community College, New Mexico)
Miyuki Fukai (Indiana Uiversity, Bloomington)

The abstracts are available at the SIG web site (http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/SIG/prodev/papers/)

If you have any question, please feel free to write to ytohsaku@ucsd.edu.

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