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Study in Japan Fair Sunday 2 August

31/7/2015

Following is information on the Study in Japan Fair to be held at UTS Sunday 2 August from 12 till 5 pm.

For cultural experience, participants will be able to experience:

Japanese traditional toy 'Kendama', paper crafts, trying on Japanese traditional dress 'Yukata'.

Teachers from schools will be also welcome to visit our fair.

This is the list of schools coming to the fair.

①友ランゲージアカデミー/友国際文化学院
Yu Language Academy/Yu International Cultural Academy

http://yula.jp/en/
http://yula.jp/yica/?lang=en

②国際語学学院
InterCulture Language Academy
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~ila/

③ミツミネキャリアアカデミー/メリック日本語学校
Mitsumine Career Academy Japanese Language Course/Meric Japanese Language School

http://www.mcaschool.jp/en/index.html

http://www.meric.co.jp/index2/top_eng.html

④京進ランゲージアカデミー
Kyoshin Language Academy

http://www.kla.ac/

⑤早稲田大学
WASEDA University

http://www.waseda.jp/top/en

⑥東京ギャラクシー日本語学校
Tokyo Galaxy Japanese Language School

http://www.tokyogalaxy.ac.jp/en/

⑦埼玉国際学園
Saitama International School
http://en.saisc.jp/

⑧日本国際語学アカデミー（資料のみ）
Japan International Language Academy(Only Brochure)
http://j-ila.com/en/

⑨JCLI日本語学校
JCLI Japanese Language School
http://en.jclischool.com/

⑩近畿大学（資料参加のみ）
KINKI Univerysity(Only Brochure)
http://www.kindai.ac.jp/english/

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Edo Giga comical woodblock prints from Japan exhibition

31/7/2015

Following is information on this exhibition to be held at the Japan Foundation in August and October.

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Linguafest 2015 - make a short film with your students

31/7/2015

Students in Year 5 and 6, Years 7 and 8, and Years 9 and 10 are invited to participate in the 2015 MLTA of NSW Inc. Linguafest Competition.

Instructions
Students need to create and submit a short film, formatted as a AVI or MP4, (no more than 2 minutes in length) using the target language they are studying. Films should be submitted online (see details below). The film should be based on the theme ‘An Excuse’. Following the format of the Tropfest competition, somewhere in the film, students need to have an icecream.

All of the details for entry requirements and instructions for submitting the films are located on our website.

Modern Languages Teachers' Association of NSW

Teacher accreditation enews from BOSTES

31/7/2015

http://info.bos.nsw.edu.au/rp/5087/process.clsp?EmailId=500174171&Token=273DA92E7F1EC6ECD2185274B9521B3C6

Participation request from school in Japan

31/7/2015

Good morning,

My name is Caleb Alger and I am an English teacher at Saitama Heisei
Jr/Sr high school. Why am I contacting you? These days students are
reluctant to greet teachers, other students, or anyone for that matter.
I talked to my students and we came up with an experiment. The name of
the experiment is "The Saitama Heisei (SAY HEY!)" experiment. In order
to get more students to understand the importance of greeting people, we
made a video. We are sending this message to schools around the world
to ask for there participation in the experiment / campaign to get
students to say hello. Participation can vary on choice, it can be just
writing your schools name, the location of the school, and a simple
comment regarding the video and or the experiment, or it can include a
video to contribute to the experiment or whatever the school might come
up with. Please be creative. Eventually when we decide to end the
experiment we want to put everything together to show the students.

Please, to participate go to the website I have created,

http://heiseisayheycampaign.weebly.com/

1. Register

2. After I approve your registration you will be able to view the
video.

3. After this you can choose to either write a comment or participate
further using our Google group feature.

4. I also ask each school to forward this message to other schools
around your area. We want to see how far it might travel.

Pre-service teacher online Edfest

29/7/2015

On Thursday July 30th AEF, AITSL, ESA and ACARA are presenting Pre Service Teacher EdFest a free national virtual conference.

#pstedfest will feature six half four presentations live streamed to support the needs of Australia’s next generation of teachers.

Sessions include:
- Applying for Graduate Teaching positions
- Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
- Australian Curriculum
- Digital technologies
- Global Collaboration

View the conference program at http://www.edfest.esa.edu.au/pst-edfest/pstedfest-event-program

Assessment of Languages Competence (ALC)

29/7/2015

Assessment of Languages Competence (ALC)

The Assessment of Languages Competence (ALC) is a valuable and unique set of tests to assess and promote Languages acquisition in schools. This year for the first time the ALC tests can be administered online. All that is needed is for students to access the internet through a computer, iPad or similar device.

The ALC offers tests in eight modern languages and across four levels, catering for upper primary and secondary students. The skills assessed are Listening and Reading. Vocabulary is also assessed in the primary tests.

Japanese is assessed at 4 levels: Primary, Certificate 1, Certificate 2 and Certificate 3.

By implementing the ALC in your school, you can:

·         motivate your students to work towards a specific goal

·         gather data and information on the linguistic skills of your students for assessment and reporting purposes

·         obtain linguistic data in relation to your student cohort to share with staff and the school community to promote Languages education, and

·         provide students with the opportunity to engage in an externally assessed test to prepare them for future exams, including the Year 12 exams and the International Baccalaureate.

The tests are created by Languages educators from Australia and overseas, in line with the latest research in Languages education.

For more information and to register please visit the ALC website: http://www.acer.edu.au/alc.

Kind regards,

Viviana Golding
ALC Project Director

Jaclyn Bates
ALC Project Officer

t: +61 3 9277 5615
e: alc@acer.edu.au

PL opportunity for pre-service primary teachers of Japanese

29/7/2015

Intensive Seminar for Primary Teachers of Japanese

(Pre-service teachers welcome)

The Japan Foundation, Sydney (JF Sydney) would like to invite pre-service teachers with the intent of becoming primary teachers of Japanese to join the Intensive Seminar for Primary Teachers, to be conducted at our office in Sydney from 28 September to 1 October 2015. The aim of this invitation is to provide networking opportunities with teachers currently teaching primary level Japanese, as well as other pre-service teachers from around Australia and New Zealand.

What is the Intensive Seminar?

This seminar will enable teachers to develop language skills, gain confidence using Japanese, and to develop language teaching strategies and skills. Specific focuses include intercultural language learning (ILL) and ICT-based learning. Participants will be immersed in a Japanese language environment, and will have ample opportunity for networking. Language consultants from JF Sydney will conduct the 3.5 day seminar, together with other invited lecturers.

Why pre-service teachers?

For the first time, The Japan Foundation, Sydney is inviting a limited number of pre-service teachers to join practising teachers of Japanese at the seminar with the intent of providing a hands-on learning opportunity to the next generation of the Japanese teaching community. During the seminar, pre-service participants are required to actively learn from practising teachers as well as share their own knowledge.

Pre-service teachers are requested;

1) to be aware that the main targets of the seminar are primary teachers, and that pre-service teachers are invited to fill limited additional places set for them,

2) to understand that their language proficiency might be higher than currently practising teachers and thus the proficiency upgrading session might not be appropriate for their current level,

3) to respect the original target of this seminar (experienced teachers), and more importantly,

4) we expect they might find life-long friends and/or mentors!

Application procedure

We would like to ask your cooperation in helping us advertise and disseminate information about this professional development opportunity to pre-service teachers at your university/teachers’ association/jurisdiction. Applicants should submit their application forms directly to JF Sydney via email.

Please note that:

There will be no fee for successful applicants to participate in this seminar.
JF Sydney will offer shared accommodation for participants from outside Sydney at no charge.
Travel to and from JF Sydney should be covered by the participant. JF Sydney also has a travel grant program (applying is no guarantee of acceptance).
Places for pre-service teachers are limited (maximum 4).

All applications should be sent to coordinators@jpf.org.au by 14 August 2015. We will then contact the successful applicants directly to inform them of this outcome and finalise details of the seminar.

Please contact me if you have any enquiries.

As always, thank you for your support and cooperation.

Yours sincerely,

Ben Trumbull | Program Coordinator

Japanese Language Department

The Japan Foundation, Sydney

02 8239 0055 (Reception)

W: www.jpf.org.au | TW: @JPFSydney | FB: japanfoundationsydney

The Japan Foundation, Sydney is now in Central Park.

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How Japan Can Save the World

29/7/2015

"How Japan Can Save the World" with Roger Pulvers

Aug 13th 2015

http://www.ajsnsw.org.au/event-1929161

Roger Pulvers is a former academic, and an author, playwright, theater director, translator and journalist.

In a recently published memoir If There Were No Japan, he argues that Japan has everything it needs for an optimistic future.

Seeking school to host teaching assistant for 3 weeks

22/7/2015

This is Fumiko from MyStage and hope this email finds you well.

Thank you for all the time for considering about our students.

If you can accept one Japanese student as an assistant this year as well, that would be really appreciated.

Here is the detail of the student for this time:

-          Ayaka Kanagawa (Female)

-          Duration:18/08/2015 – 4/09/2015 (about 3 weeks)

-          Children check will be gone through after her arrival

-          Working hours: 9am – 5pm (please provide 30 minutes lunch break)

-          She will do homestay while being in Sydney.

She will go to RTA to apply for children check number on 17th Aug (Mon), and hope the number will be sent to us by 18th Aug. But, if it takes more time to issue, is it still acceptable to bring only the receipt instead of the number on her first date?

Also, on the first day of her work on 184h Aug, what time does she need to be at school? And is there any change from last time for her belongings, like written materials, her own introduction in Japanese and English, and lunch?

Once again, thank you very much for your support.

We look forward to working with you.

Warm Regards,

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Fumiko Suzuki

Marketing & Recruitment

Tel : +61 2 9261 8914 / Fax : +61 2 9261 8915 / Mob : +61 410 214 144 /

Skype: marketing.ms
Email : marketing@mystageedu.com / URL : www.mystageedu.com

Address: Suite 40/650 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia