Primary Japanese Up-skilling Course - Level 1

Our Japanese up-skilling course is a fun and interactive way of increasing your knowledge of Japanese vocabulary and confidence in pronouncing words correctly whilst, at the same time, learning practical games and activities that can be used in the classroom the very next day.

On this CPD course you will consider how you can introduce cultural awareness into your teaching of Japanese and consider elements which would make up a successful Japanese cross-curricular day in a primary school.

The course focuses on:

  • confidence in simple conversational Japanese;
  • pronunciation;
  • speaking and listening skills;
  • writing Japanese characters;
  • cultural awareness;
  • cross-curricular themes;
  • teaching resources currently available.

No previous knowledge required.

This course is funded by the Japan Foundation and is free of charge to delegates.

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Presenter profile

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Crispin Chambers BA Hons, MA in Japanese was UK Pearson Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School 2013-14. has been Head of Japanese at Tavistock College in Devon since 2003 and full-time teacher of Japanese since 1996 teaching key stages 3, 4 and 5. He has extensive experience of teaching Japanese to large mixed ability GSCE, AS and A2 groups and was the first UK Japanese Advanced Skills Teacher in 2001 and now lead practitioner running professional development courses for KS 3,4 and 5 teachers. Crispin has long-term experience of running Japanese language and cultural taster days in primary schools and has led Japanese exchanges to numerous Japanese schools since 2001.

Feedback from teachers on Crispin's course

Amazing day; enjoyed it thoroughly! Great enthusiasm, excellent presentation and great overall projection. Really glad I attended.
Very enjoyable and interesting course – good mix of interactive/group/individual work: was a good day – thanks.
Arigatou! A really great course, and enjoyable too.
It was brilliant – I really enjoyed the day!
The amount of support and resources we were given was amazing. Thank you so very much.
Thank you very much for a really interesting, fun and useful day. Crispin’s teaching and range of activities were spot on. Arigatou gozaimasu!
Thank you very much for today – very much inspired to go on and keep learning Japanese.

Cost: Free of charge

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