Sunday, February 2, 2014

February begins with professional development workshops for Japanese teachers!

February begins with professional development workshops organized by GTS and the consulate general of Japan at Chicago.

The guest facilitator was Yo Azama who won the foreign language Teacher of the Year of 2012.

Over 50 teachers from IL, IA, IN, WI, MN gathered and learned and discussed common issues on Japanese language teaching.

2/7 Friday will be the first day of the GTS/JCC dinner of the year 2014 which will celebrate the birthday of GTS!

Spring trip has 8 participants traveling together to Japan with GTS and so far summer study abroad  has 7 official registrants already and will grow over a dozen members soon.

Very chilly cold but the great winter so far!

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