EFL Japan – Tokyo

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Doors open 9:30. First presentation 10:00. Ends 17:30.

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Feb 26th, 2023 – Tokyo

Location

Tokyo, Taiikukan (Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium)

1-chōme-17-1 Sendagaya, Shibuya City, Tokyo 151-0051

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Event Schedule

The schedule is subject to change. There are eighteen presentations, currently 9 C, 7 NC and 2 TBC.

KEY: C = commercial, NC = n0n-commercial presentation; TBC = to be confirmed.  See below for more details on presenters and presentations, in alphabetical order by surname.

10:00 – 10:45

Session 1

Room 1

Ann Nishigaya

Language Learning and Brain Development (Or Tune In, Take Turns and Talk More!)

NC.

Room 3

Englishbooks.jp

Topic TBC. C.

Room 4

Julian Warden

Watch Sing Learn! Learn English With Amazing Songs! C.

11:15 – 12:00

Session 2

Room 1

Jeremy Lanig

Maximize Student Motivation with Battle Eggs Card Game. C.

Room 3

Guy Cihi

TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, GTEC – Scoring Secrets Revealed. NC.

Room 4

Pieter Van Leuven

How I enter the world of a kindergarten child with my original songs, and how they read my original stories by Elementary School 3rd Grade. NC.

12:30 – 13:15

Session 3

Room 1

Jeremy Lanig

How to Teach Effective Routine-based Lessons Without Preparation. C.

Room 3

Free space

Free space.

Room 4

Eric Kane

10 Things Teachers Forget.

Sponsored by englishbooks.jp

13:15 – 14:15

LUNCH

14:15 – 15:00

Session 4

Room 1

Ai Haori

Beyond the Classroom. NC.

Room 3

Guy Cihi

Free.WordsAndMonsters.com C.

Room 4

Simon Moran

Digital transformation with Happy Valley Digitial and bokoco. C.

15:30 – 16:15

Session 5

Room 1

Lorena Maré & Philip Maré

Break it Kids: Your Movement Break for Your Brain, Body & Senses. C.

Room 3

Peter Lackner

Get a (better) job now! C.

Room 4

Free space

Free space.

16:45 – 17:30

Session 6

Room 1

Forum

What is the best EFL approach for Japanese children?

Do we need native-speaking teachers? NC.

Room 3

Free space

Free space.

Room 4

Dean Rogers - School Owners' Forum

Dean leads the discussion. NC.

Ann Nishigaya

Co-founder and principal of Tokyo Children’s Garden, a bilingual preschool in Tokyo. Also a long-standing board member of the Tokyo Association of International Preschools.

Language Learning and Brain Development (Or Tune In, Take Turns and Talk More!)
Participants will learn about how to ‘Tune in, Take turns and Talk more’ with young children and the amazing brain-growing benefits of hearing more language at a young age.
Aimed at: Kindergarten and below.
Language of the Presentation: English
Non-Commercial Presentation.
Amy Braun
An educator teaching ESL to primarily young learners for ten years. She currently teaches at an English immersion preschool in Nagoya.
My Educational Experience in Finland
Join the presenter as she talks about her experience of learning about the Finnish education system. She spent time at a kindergarten, a primary and secondary school campus, a university, and a vocational school. The presenter will reflect on her experience and how to implement these ideas in her classroom.
Aimed at: All.
Language of the Presentation: English
Non-Commercial Presentation.
Guy Cihi
A designer and entrepreneur with degrees from Bridgeport and HBS, Guy has co-founded several EdTech companies and produced ELL programs including Disney’s World of English, WordEngine, and Words & Monsters. He also co-founded Endeavour College of Natural Health with over 10,000 undergrad students on 6 campuses across Australia.

TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, GTEC – Scoring Secrets Revealed.      Corpus analysis of TOEFL, TOEIC, GTEC, and IELTS tests reveals that 1/3 of the words occurring in all parts of these tests are not commonly used in authentic general English. Students who study with traditional materials are not likely to develop recognition and fluency for 1/3 of the words that commonly occur on these tests. For example words such as: aboard, absent, gallon, and garbage are lower-frequency words in authentic general English whereas they are high-frequency words on TOEFL. Come find out how you can help students quickly learn and retain comprehension of all of the most important vocabulary for TOEIC, TOEFL, GTEC, and IELTS.

Words and Monsters          Introducing Words & Monsters, a free mobile game that helps students ages 9 to 90 improve English ability and score higher on major tests. Players get personalized word tasks managed by a spaced repetition system to ensure long-term memory retention and teachers can assign goals and easily track study progress via the LMS.

Aimed at: English learners 9 to 90 and their teachers.
Language of the Presentation: English
Commercial Presentation.

Ai Haori
株式会社 英語自在代表
NPO法人早期英語教育研究会 理事長
言語教育学修
Beyond the Classroom

習った英語は、クラスルームの外に出た時にどれだけ使えるのでしょうか。英語教室で開催して来た課外活動アイデアなどをご紹介します。Enhancing Children’s English Language Learning Through Real-World Experiences.Aimed at: Kindergarten, Elementary teachers, school owners.
Language of the Presentation: Japanese.
Non-Commercial Presentation.

Eric Kane
A teacher, school owner, publisher and educational YouTuber who has been in the classroom for over 25 years.
10 Things Teachers Forget
A practical presentation sharing some teaching essentials the presenter has learned, forgotten and remembered again.
Aimed at: All teachers.
Language of the Presentation: English
Commercial Presentation.
Peter Lackner
Peter Lackner is the Managing Partner at JobsinJapan.com and has had management-level positions at major job boards in Japan including: CareerCross.com, GaijinPot, CareerEngine and currently at JobsinJapan.com. Running a job board gives Peter the opportunity to speak with employers and job seekers every day and find out why some are successful and others are not. Speaking to both employers and job seekers has given Peter the ability to be able to see both sides of the hiring process. 
Get a (better) job now!
Whether you are actively looking for a job or ready to jump ship, don’t miss this seminar.  Learn what you should and should not be doing to get a better job.
Aimed at: All job seekers and recruiters.
Language of the Presentation: English
Commercial Presentation.
Jeremy Lanig
Jeremy Lanig is the founder of BINGOBONGO Learning. When he’s not busy making effective resources, he’s usually trying to defend his world record for most udon eaten in 3 minutes!
Maximize Student Motivation with Battle Eggs Card Game
Battle Eggs is a collectible card game (CCG) with incredible potential for teaching young learners foundational vocabulary, including colors, shapes, numbers, emotions, months, food, and more. In this presentation, Jeremy will explain the game’s fundamentals and show how it can be used to energize your lesson plans.
How to Teach Effective Routine-based Lessons Without Preparation
Join Jeremy from Step by Step Eikaiwa as he explains how after 10 years of trial and error combined with teaching through 1 pandemic, he has finally found his recipe for effective lesson routines that require little or no prep time.
Aimed at: Kindergarten, elementary, JHS school age Teachers.
Language of the Presentations: English
Commercial Presentations.
Pieter Van Leuven

61 year old veteran early childhood teacher. Creator of songs for kindergartners and original reading programs, Grow & Glow 1-6 / Fun Bridge 1-6.

Grow & Glow. Singing and Reading From Kindergarten to Elementary School
From a song to reading text. Let me show you how I enter the world of a kindergarten child with my original songs and read my original text/stories by the time they’re Elementary School 3rd Grade.
Aimed at: Kindergarten, elementary school age Teachers.
Language of the Presentation: English
Non-Commercial Presentation.
Lorena Maré & Philip Maré

Lorena is a trained Occupational Therapist with over 8 years of international working experience with children with special needs, fine/gross motor delays, attention difficulties and sensory processing difficulties. Philip is a personal trainer with 15 years of experience with a multitude of different types of training, including a detailed focus on Martial Arts and sport with kids.

Break it Kids: Your Movement Break for Your Brain, Body & Senses 
Break it Kids is a scientifically-based, structured movement break for kids aged 3-12. The presenters are passionate about children’s wellness and want to ensure to empower them with the tools to regulate themselves. Come join in to see the power of well-timed breaks to de-stress and energize kids to focus.
Aimed at: Kindergarten, elementary teachers, school owners.
Language of the presentation: English.
Commercial Presentation.
Simon Moran

CEO of ME Learning, products and brands include: Modern English, Happy Valley, Live Schedule, bokoco, Fraice and The Double Deckers. Simon arrived in Japan from Newcastle in 1995 with £200 in his pocket. Since then he’s built a school chain and international publishing business from scratch, and had lots of help along the way.

Digital transformation with Happy Valley Digitial and bokoco. 
In this presentation, we look at Happy Valley Digital and bokoco. These encompass digital books, videos, audio, games for lessons, and self-study, with AI-supported self-play games. The presenter will run through the platforms and show how to create a lesson and how to implement for the benefit of students, parents, teachers and schools.
Aimed at: Kindergarten, elementary teachers, school owners, digital creators.
Language of the presentation: English.
Commercial Presentation.
Dean Rogers
Dean R. Rogers, a Japan-based entrepreneur, is CEO of Dean Morgan K.K. which owns the Rosetta Stone Learning Center and Hummingbird pronunciation school brands. He started started his own language school chain and in 2015, after a business alliance, rebranded as Rosetta Stone Learning Centers. In 2017 the company was successfully sold to Link and Motivation Group (TSE: 2170) a Tier 1 publicly traded company and is now a fully owned subsidiary of LMG. The company has expanded from its original school to over 90 direct and partner locations across Japan.
School Owners Forum
Dean leads the business discussion on topics such as systems, building and selling. General marketing will not be discussed.
Aimed at: School owners.
Language of the Forum: English
Non-Commercial Forum.
Julian Warden
Julian Warden has worked in publishing for 20 years and is the General Manager of mangoSTEEMS.
Watch Sing Learn! Learn English With Amazing Songs!
We know kids can watch YOUTUBE for HOURS on end but lose concentration after five MINUTES in class. Suitable for small and large classes, Planet Pop provides amazing BLOCKBUSTER CONTENT to GRAB ATTENTION, boosting MOTIVATION and LEARNING. Join our presentation to consider how to generate spectacular results in your classroom!
Aimed at: Kindergarten, elementary school age Teachers.
Language of the Presentation: English
Commercial Presentation.

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