Message and invitation from OATJ: OATJ is having its Spring Workshop! It will be free and online again.We hope you will join us! 2021 Spring Workshop Saturday, April 10, 2021 11:00 am – 3:00 pm EST (Eastern Standard Time) (10:00 am – 2:00 pm (CDT); 9:00 am – 1:00 pm (MDT); 8:00 am – 12:00 pm (PDT)) … More Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese Spring Workshop

CLTA’s annual conference (this year held digitally) will be held this weekend! Here’s a list of workshop offerings. The session descriptions can be found here. In addition, there will be inspirational keynote addresses by the teachers of the year. Registration and other info can be found here.  Azama sensei and three other teachers will be facilitating a workshop on Equitable Grading … More 2021 CLTA Virtual Conference (2/27 – 2/28)

下のアンケートにご協力お願いいたします。 JFLA and AATJ need your input to better understand how the pandemic continues to affect Japanese language teaching in the US and to determine how best to provide support. Your  responses will be critical to designing that support, so please take a few minutes to complete the survey: K-12: https://forms.gle/2hbGehN6uc5zmQZj6 College/University: https://forms.gle/kX5EFchALVy5MVG16 The deadline is Monday, … More AATJ and JFLA survey

We all understand feedback plays an important role in learning. However, providing effective feedback in a timely manner is challenging for busy teachers. When, how, and what types of feedback yield in students’ uptake? Three consecutive weekends are designed to explore effective ways to provide various types of feedback to our learners and ways for … More Teaching with Clarity: Feedback to Move Students Forward – Workshop with Azama-sensei

Happy New Year of the Ox! With the start of the new year, is also the start of a new CAJLT membership cycle. There are 2 ways to renew: 1) Sign up for a 2020-2021 AATJ membership and add CAJLT as your local affiliate. 2) Sign up only for a 2020-2021 CAJLT membership. As a CAJLT … More Renewing your CAJLT Membership

New teacher’s support study session (pilot project) Objectives: To provide on-going support using Google Classroom and discussion session with experienced teachers. Participants: Japanese teachers who have less than 5 years of experience. Dates: December 16th, 2019, and  January 13th, 2020    Format: Zoom online collaboration platform and Google Classroom. Led by 2012 ACTFL Teacher of the … More New teacher’s support study session (Pilot Project) 2019-2020

Back by popular demand, we are excited to announce another series of Zoom In Salinas! The topic for this year’s discussion is “How to increase students’ interpretive skills in reading.” Our discussions will be based on the book Visible Learning for Literacy by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie (purchase of the book is … More Zoom in Salinas 2019-2020

Please click on the following link to view the most updated by-laws for CAJLT. CAJLT By-Laws (Amended February 2019)

We will have our annual meeting on 3/2 from 5:30 at Santa Clara room.  Please join us!  This is a great opportunity to meet our fellow teachers and get to know each other!!