Steps to Success: Stage 4/5 2023 – CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION

This workshop aims to equip early career (up to 5 years experience) and pre-service teachers with some of the essential knowledge and skills required to create and maintain a successful Stage 4 and 5 program. Experienced teachers will lead sessions covering approaches to programming and behaviour management for Japanese language lessons, and how to teach for proficiency and engagement to help increase elective classes. 

Participants are to bring copies of any resources they are using for their stage 4/5 classes for reference throughout the day.

Agenda:

8:45 – 9.00 Registration / Welcome / Introduction

9.00 – 10.10 Session 1:    Programming for Engagement and Proficiency (Yuji Okawa and Naoko Abe – Redlands) 

The goals of this session are to learn (or revisit) the basic concepts of the Sociocultural Approach and to explore how this approach can be useful when we teach Stages 4 and 5. To achieve these goals, we will share three mini-projects – Years 8 and 9 Junior Campus Visit, Year 10 Peer Teaching and Learning, and Year 8 Oral Assignment. We will explain how we designed each mini-project and talk about how our students’ learning became more engaging, interactive, and relevant to their needs. We would also like to invite you to share your opinions on how we could use the Sociocultural Approach in our daily teaching practice.

10.10 – 10.30 Morning Tea

10.30 – 13.00  Session 2:    Programming for Engagement and Proficiency (Katherine Brownlee, Gosford High School, JTAN President)

How can we engage students with the study of Japanese and ensure that they make visible, quantifiable progress and learning in the short amount of time we have available each week/term/year? How do we convince them to stick with their language learning once it becomes elective? This session focuses on successful practice- and research-based techniques and strategies I use in the classroom and how data can be collected and used to develop and monitor program effectiveness, as well as for advocacy within the school community.   

Session 3 – Creating an Effective Scope & Sequence  (Katherine Brownlee, Gosford High School, JTAN President)

What makes a scope and sequence effective? How can we design units of work that connect with students’ prior learning and build proficiency? What are the building blocks that allow our students to not only succeed at the HSC examinations but also apply their skills in real life situations? This session provides hands-on opportunities to collaborate with other teachers and design and critique scope and sequence documents. 

13.00 ; 13:30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.15

Session 3 – Classroom Management (Katherine Brownlee, Gosford High School, JTAN President)

Managing student behaviour can be a challenge, particularly in Stage 4. This session introduces effective strategies and approaches to establishing clear routines and expectations in the classroom and what to do when things don’t go to plan. 

14.15 – 14.30 Session 4 – Q&A Session 

Teachers will be provided with a final session to ask questions related to Japanese teaching and collaborate on ideas to assist with teaching, planning and assessment for stages 4 and 5.

14.30 Evaluation and closing

Registrations close Monday, 3rd June COB.