Teaching young learners today is more challenging than ever.
Teachers and the teaching profession have undergone rapid changes over the past few years, bringing many benefits but also a variety of challenges. Now more than ever teachers need to create a flexible and inclusive learning environment and lessons to support learners in achieving their goals and potential.
At this year’s Oxford Teaching Workshop Series our expert speakers, together with teachers in attendance will explore ideas to empower your teaching and deliver practical tips to take straight into the classroom.
To top it off, we will also be launching a brand-new primary course at the event. Be among the first in Japan to get an exclusive look at our exciting new primary course which will debut at these workshops!
Join us to connect, learn, and have a little fun.
Date & Time
- Osaka
- Sunday, 12 February
10:00 – 16:00
- Nagoya
- Sunday, 19 February
10:00 – 16:00
- Tokyo
- Sunday, 5 March
10:00 – 16:00
Recommended for
Primary English teachers and those who are interested in primary English education
Admission
Free
Benefits
Craft sessions, purchase incentives, special offers, and extras for attendees
20% off all materials
Enjoy 20% off all books and materials purchased at the event.
Registration Gift
Pre-register to receive a Primary Classroom Poster Set when you attend the workshop.
Prize Draws
Prize draws after every presentation!
New Course Launch
Be the first in Japan to see our brand-new primary course!
Craft Sessions
Craft sessions to help you build up your bank of craft ideas!
ORT Wall Calendar
Free ORT Academic Year Wall Calendar with every purchase.
Covid-19 Measures
To keep you safe, measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 will be in operation and we strongly recommend wearing a mask on the day.
- Date & Time
- Sunday, 12 February
Doors open: 10:00
Workshops: 10:30 - 15:30
- Venue
- Shin-Osaka Brick Bldg, 3F
1-6-1 Miyahara, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka
MAP
Agenda
| 10:00 | Doors open | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Crafts & Activities to Make your Classes Shine | Rob Peacock |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Break | |
| 11:40 - 12:30 | Building Inclusive Lessons for All Students - feat. Karen Frazier (co-author of Let's Go) | Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Break & Craft Session | |
| 13:30 - 14:20 | Mastering Phonics: The Key to Reading Success | Kaj Schwermer |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Break & Craft Session | |
| 14:40 - 15:30 | How to boost students’ English and school enrollment with ORC | Chigusa Shigemori |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Book display & sales |
Presenters
- Rob PeacockEducational Services Consultant, Oxford University Press
- Rob works at Oxford University Press as an Educational Services Consultant and Course Coordinator of the Oxford Teachers' Academy. He has spent over 15 years in Japan teaching students of all ages as well as providing teacher support and workshops.
- PresentationCrafts, Critical Thinking Activities, and Communicative Storytelling to Make your Classes Shine
- Some children love to move, some love to create, and some love stories. How can we keep lessons interesting and engaging for all students, regardless of their learning style? In my workshop, we will look at a variety of fun and achievable activities which keep learners actively involved and maximize speaking time in the classroom. I will also share some tips for mixed-ability groups, ensuring all students have a chance to shine together!
- Barbara Hoskins SakamotoCo-author, Let's Go
- Barbara is co-author of the bestselling Let's Go series, and director of the International Teacher Development Institute (www.iTDi.pro). She is an English Language Specialist with the U.S. State Department, and has conducted teacher training workshops in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and online.
- PresentationBuilding Inclusive Lessons for All Students
- Teachers have many things to consider when planning lessons. How can we plan lessons to reach all of our students, even that one who can't sit still? How can we teach about global issues using language our students understand? What are other ways we can assess our students besides tests? In this workshop, we'll explore answers to these questions, and more.
- Kaj SchwermerCo-author, Oxford Phonics World
- Kaj is co-author of Oxford Phonics World and is renowned for his active and entertaining presentations. He has been teaching EFL learners in Japan for over 20 years and is currently the Chief English Teacher at the newly established Dalton Tokyo Gakuen Junior High School and High School in Tokyo.
- PresentationMastering Phonics: The Key to Reading Success
- Join me as I explore the links between phonics and reading and writing skills. In addition to phonics-based game and activity ideas, this workshop will address common challenges and pitfalls of incorporating ICT, STEAM and CLIL, including strategies for adapting activities for mixed-level classes. Whether you are a teacher in a kindergarten, public or private elementary school, private language school, or even junior high school, this workshop is sure to provide valuable insights and strategies for helping your students on the road to mastery as proficient and confident readers and writers of English as a foreign language.
- Chigusa ShigemoriNextep English School
- Chigusa runs Nextep English school and has been teaching English for almost 20 years. She was previously commissioned by the Board of Education to teach English at 13 schools and was an Eiken supervisor at a junior high school. Currently, she teaches online to over 2,000 students, from kids to adults, as well as to children and teachers at elementary schools and preschools. She also runs a successful YouTube channel, which currently has 140,000 subscribers.
- PresentationHow to boost students’ English and school enrollment with Oxford Reading Club
- Extensive reading is popular with children and adults and is a simple but effective method which if you keep at shows results. I do all of my teaching online and nine months after I introduced Oxford Reading Club in my school, more and more children are speaking English at a higher level than what they are learning in their textbooks. Even in the COVID situation, extensive reading can be easily incorporated online, boosting your students’ English abilities and even support your school’s enrollment and revenue. In this presentation, I will explore, (1) How to create a system to motivate learners to keep reading. (2) How to incorporate extensive reading into the learning process. and (3) How to boost school enrollment.
- Date & Time
- Sunday, 19 February
Doors open: 10:00
Workshops: 10:30 - 15:30
- Venue
- Nagoya AT Bldg, 2F, Nagoya Sun Sky Room A
1-18-22 Nishiki, Naka ward, Nagoya, Aichi
MAP
Agenda
| 10:00 | Doors open | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Crafts & Activities to Make your Classes Shine | Rob Peacock |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Break | |
| 11:40 - 12:30 | A Teacher's Tool Kit to Power Up Lessons and Cut Prep Time | Naoko Ashikawa |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Break & Craft Session | |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Creating lessons that enhance thinking skills | Maiko Yokoyama |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Break | |
| 14:40 - 15:30 | How to boost students’ English and school enrollment with ORC | Chigusa Shigemori |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Book display & sales |
プレゼンター
- Rob PeacockEducational Services Consultant, Oxford University Press
- Rob works at Oxford University Press as an Educational Services Consultant and Course Coordinator of the Oxford Teachers' Academy. He has spent over 15 years in Japan teaching students of all ages as well as providing teacher support and workshops.
- PresentationCrafts, Critical Thinking Activities, and Communicative Storytelling to Make your Classes Shine
- Some children love to move, some love to create, and some love stories. How can we keep lessons interesting and engaging for all students, regardless of their learning style? In my workshop, we will look at a variety of fun and achievable activities which keep learners actively involved and maximize speaking time in the classroom. I will also share some tips for mixed-ability groups, ensuring all students have a chance to shine together!
- Naoko AshikawaOxford University Press
- Naoko works at Oxford University Press as a Content Marketing Executive and presenter. She has over ten years experience as a teacher and trainer and has a very engaging and natural style of teaching and presenting.
- PresentationA Teacher's Tool Kit to Power Up Lessons and Cut Prep Time
- Teachers can struggle with finding time to plan and prepare lessons. How can we reduce the preparation workload and make each lesson more engaging? In this workshop, I will introduce some tips and ideas for quick and easy activities as well a tool kit that allows teachers to incorporate different elements into lessons easily.
- Maiko Yokoyama St. Dominic Elementary School
- Maiko is in charge of English at St. Dominic's Elementary School. She has been teaching in elementary school for about 15 years, and before that also held teaching positions at public junior and senior high schools. She has been a big believer in the CLIL methodology since she started teaching at elementary school, and strives to create lessons that improve children’s English and thinking skills. She constantly tries new ideas, which has been a daily process of trial and error, but she always enjoys seeing the children's improvement and is eager to share her ideas with other teachers.
- PresentationCreating lessons that enhance thinking skills
- CLIL can be a very effective approach to enhance both language and thinking skills. Having a textbook with the CLIL methodology embedded, such as Everybody Up from Oxford University Press, makes it easy to include CLIL into your lessons and expose students to other subjects in English. In this presentation, I will discuss the advantages of using a textbook to better structure your curriculum and look at some practical examples for using a textbook to meet the achievement goals of lower, middle, and upper grades. I will also introduce a framework to help plan your lessons.
- Chigusa ShigemoriNextep English School
- Chigusa runs Nextep English school and has been teaching English for almost 20 years. She was previously commissioned by the Board of Education to teach English at 13 schools and was an Eiken supervisor at a junior high school. Currently, she teaches online to over 2,000 students, from kids to adults, as well as to children and teachers at elementary schools and preschools. She also runs a successful YouTube channel, which currently has 140,000 subscribers.
- PresentationHow to boost students’ English and school enrollment with Oxford Reading Club
- Extensive reading is popular with children and adults and is a simple but effective method that if you keep at shows results. I do all of my teaching online and nine months after I introduced Oxford Reading Club in my school, more and more children are speaking English at a higher level than what they are learning in their textbooks. Even in the COVID situation, extensive reading can be easily incorporated online, boosting your students’ English abilities and even support your school’s enrollment and revenue. In this presentation, I will explore, (1) How to create a system to motivate learners to keep reading. (2) How to incorporate extensive reading into the learning process. and (3) How to boost school enrollment.
Registration is now closed as we have reached maximum capacity.
- Date & Time
- Sunday, 5 March
Doors open: 10:00
Workshops: 10:30 - 15:30
- Venue
- Mita NN Hall
4-1-23 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo
MAP
Agenda
| 10:00 | Doors open | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Crafts & Activities to Make your Classes Shine | Rob Peacock |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Break | |
| 11:40 - 12:30 | Building Inclusive Lessons for All Students | Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Break & Craft Session | |
| 13:30 - 14:20 | Mastering Phonics: The Key to Reading Success | Kaj Schwermer |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Break | |
| 14:40 - 15:30 | How to boost students’ English and school enrollment with ORC | Chigusa Shigemori |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Book display & sales |
Presenters
- Rob PeacockEducational Services Consultant, Oxford University Press
- Rob works at Oxford University Press as an Educational Services Consultant and Course Coordinator of the Oxford Teachers' Academy. He has spent over 15 years in Japan teaching students of all ages as well as providing teacher support and workshops.
- PresentationCrafts, Critical Thinking Activities, and Communicative Storytelling to Make your Classes Shine
- Some children love to move, some love to create, and some love stories. How can we keep lessons interesting and engaging for all students, regardless of their learning style? In my workshop, we will look at a variety of fun and achievable activities which keep learners actively involved and maximize speaking time in the classroom. I will also share some tips for mixed-ability groups, ensuring all students have a chance to shine together!
- Barbara Hoskins SakamotoCo-author, Let's Go
- Barbara is co-author of the bestselling Let's Go series, and director of the International Teacher Development Institute (www.iTDi.pro). She is an English Language Specialist with the U.S. State Department, and has conducted teacher training workshops in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and online.
- PresentationBuilding Inclusive Lessons for All Students
- Teachers have many things to consider when planning lessons. How can we plan lessons to reach all of our students, even that one who can't sit still? How can we teach about global issues using language our students understand? What are other ways we can assess our students besides tests? In this workshop, we'll explore answers to these questions, and more.
- Kaj SchwermerCo-author, Oxford Phonics World
- Kaj is co-author of Oxford Phonics World and is renowned for his active and entertaining presentations. He has been teaching EFL learners in Japan for over 20 years and is currently the Chief English Teacher at the newly established Dalton Tokyo Gakuen Junior High School and High School in Tokyo.
- PresentationMastering Phonics: The Key to Reading Success
- Join me as I explore the links between phonics and reading and writing skills. In addition to phonics-based game and activity ideas, this workshop will address common challenges and pitfalls of incorporating ICT, STEAM and CLIL, including strategies for adapting activities for mixed-level classes. Whether you are a teacher in a kindergarten, public or private elementary school, private language school, or even junior high school, this workshop is sure to provide valuable insights and strategies for helping your students on the road to mastery as proficient and confident readers and writers of English as a foreign language.
- Chigusa ShigemoriNextep English School
- Chigusa runs Nextep English school and has been teaching English for almost 20 years. She was previously commissioned by the Board of Education to teach English at 13 schools and was an Eiken supervisor at a junior high school. Currently, she teaches online to over 2,000 students, from kids to adults, as well as to children and teachers at elementary schools and preschools. She also runs a successful YouTube channel, which currently has 140,000 subscribers.
- PresentationHow to boost students’ English and school enrollment with Oxford Reading Club
- Extensive reading is popular with children and adults and is a simple but effective method which if you keep at shows results. I do all of my teaching online and nine months after I introduced Oxford Reading Club in my school, more and more children are speaking English at a higher level than what they are learning in their textbooks. Even in the COVID situation, extensive reading can be easily incorporated online, boosting your students’ English abilities and even support your school’s enrollment and revenue. In this presentation, I will explore, (1) How to create a system to motivate learners to keep reading. (2) How to incorporate extensive reading into the learning process. and (3) How to boost school enrollment.
Date & Time
- Osaka
- Sunday, 12 February
10:00 – 16:00
- Nagoya
- Sunday, 19 February
10:00 – 16:00
- Tokyo
- Sunday, 5 March
10:00 – 16:00
Recommended for
Primary English teachers and those who are interested in primary English education
Admission
Free
Attendee Benefits
Pre-register to receive a Primary Classroom Poster Set when you attend your chosen workshop.
Enjoy 20% off all books and materials purchased at the event.
Prize draws after every presentation.
Schedule and content are subject to change without prior notice.
Updated: 21 February 2023