Outreach

Recent Teacher Training Workshops

Japanese Pedagogy Workshop
The Asian Studies Center, in cooperation with the Ohio State University, held their annual Japanese Pedagogy Workshop for area K-16 Japanese language teachers on Saturday, May 5 in Posvar Hall. Approximately 20 area teachers from Pitt, CMU, OSU and other colleges as well as area high schools attended the workshop . The following is the program:

May 5, 2007
Room 4165 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Program Title:
Ships, Scripts, and Selves: Schema-based Performance Pedagogy

Dr. Paul Warnick, Associate Professor at Brigham Young University, lead the workshop. The program ran from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. as follows:

Registration, Introductions, Group Discussion (light breakfast served)

9:30-10:30 a.m.-- The role of scripts and schemata in performance-based pedagogy: developing conversational skills

10:30-12:00 p.m.: noon Small group work-application

12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.-- Advocacy for Japanese language programs with round table discussion moderated by Paul Warnick with Brenda G. Jordan (Asian Studies Center, Japan Studies Coordinator).

1:00-2:00 p.m.-- A performance-based approach to reading and writing.

2:00-3:00 p.m.-- Small group work-application.

3:30 p.m.: Program summary. Dr. Warnick oversees the Japanese program at Brigham Young University. He directs BYU's study abroad and internship programs, is responsible for training teaching assistants in the Japanese language program, and is the director of a language fair hosted each spring by BYU for secondary school students in Utah studying Japanese. He has also taught at the intensive summer program at Middlebury College, had a staff role at Indiana University's intensive program (East Asian Summer Language Institute), and taught at OSU's SPEAC program several years. Dr. Warnick is currently a member of the ATJ board of directors. I am coauthor (with Matthew B. Christensen) of Performed Culture: An Approach to East Asian Pedagogy, published last year by the National East Asian Languages Resource Center at OSU. This program is sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, and the School of Education, University of Pittsburgh. Funding is made possible through the National Resource Center grant provided by the United States Department of Education, and the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi endowments, University of Pittsburgh.

For more information please contact Brenda Jordan.