[LD-SIG Discussion List] Nakasendo 2010

[Peter MIZUKI]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your message, I`ve been busy with other things and haven`t had 
time to help out the SIG as I could before, anyway I read through your 
message and I would be very interested in taking part.  I just finished 
teaching an intensive academic English course focusing on the 4 skills and 
emphasizing presentation skills as well.  I had the students fill out short 
self-evaluation forms after finishing their presentations and after the 
other students had finished giving their presentations.  The students were 
able to do 2 presentations and by their comments it helped give them 
confidence and self-awareness of how to improve themselves.


The class consisted of originally 16 students with 12 students eventually 
finishing the course.  The class consisted of the same students and the 
course covered 15 sessions  over a period of 5 days with 3 sessions each day 
many  of the students were highly motivated having been informed they had 
received scholarships and would be studying at a foreign university for one 
year beginning from this Aug. or Sept.

I would be interested in just reporting what I found in teaching these two 
sessions (I taught 2 sessions of the same content) and how the self 
evaluations of their own presentations I felt helped improve awareness of 
their presentation performances.

Well Andy, what do you think?

I will be applying to present at the Nakasendo conf. along the same lines as 
above.

See you now,

Peter Mizuki
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andy Barfield
  To: Discussion list for JALT ld-sig members
  Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:48 AM
  Subject: [LD-SIG Discussion List] Nakasendo 2010


  Hi everyone,




  Learner Development SIG is hoping to do some kind of multi-session 
(different presentations, posters and discussions happening at the same time 
in one room) at the Nakasendo conference, Sunday 20th June

  in Tokyo, and we would like to hear from you if you are interested in 
taking part.



  Two areas of focus seems to offer some really interesting possibilities – 
(i) teachers bringing along examples of their learners' self-assessment in 
action (eg short video clips of students doing self-assessment, written 
examples of students’ self-assessment/reflection about learning) and using 
these as a springboard for discussion;



  (ii) teachers looking at the story/stories of how the /their learners have 
tried to develop self-assessment – the time perspective could be in the last 
while, over the last year, over the last few years; again the idea would be 
for those interested to bring along some kind of object to discuss - a 
poster, a flipchart, a video clip or a written reflection/story about 
developing self-assessment.




  If that catches your interest, please do contact me within the next week 
or so with some initial thoughts about what you would like to do. Many 
thanks ---



  Cheers,




  Andy




  PS You can find the (formal) Call for Papers for the LD SIG and FLP SIG 
here http://ld-sig.org/Nakasendo2010_CFP.html  Learner Development aims to 
focus on self-assessment issues in the classroom (and/or in self-access, 
virtual learning and other types of extra-mural learning), while Framework 
and Language Portfolio intends to look at learner training for 
self-assessment. Teacher Ed (website tinyurl.com/jalt-teachered) is also 
taking part and focusing on self-assessment of one's teaching, and the role 
of reflection in developing as a teacher-learners.







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