EASC/OATJ Virtual Spring Workshop 2022

April 9, 2022

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Virtual (via online Zoom meeting room)

2022-04-09 10:00:00 2022-04-09 12:00:00 EASC/OATJ Virtual Spring Workshop 2022 Presented by the Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ): Supporting Our Students: Building Connections for Communication Elena Kamenetzky Eastern High School, Louisville, KY 2021 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year TIME: 10:00am-12:00 pm (EST - Ohio) Registration/Zoom meeting details: Registration Link OATJ Website: Link   Free, but current AATJ/OATJ membership is required. Please renew your 2022 membership at http://www.aatj.org/membership, if you have not done so yet. These past few years have brought unprecedented uncertainty into students’ lives. But the world language classroom can support students in unique and unexpected ways! In this workshop we will explore how language learning can develop communication skills and self-confidence to build learners’ resilience and support their mental health.  Participants will acquire strategies to help learners lower their affective barriers and develop healthy relationships. Presenter: Elena Kamenetzky Elena Kamenetzky-sensei is a Japanese teacher at Eastern High School in Louisville, KY. She is a recipient of the 2021 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year and the 2020 SCOLT (Southern Conference of Language Teaching) Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. This event is sponsored in part by the East Asian Studies Center and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to the East Asian Studies Center at OSU.       Virtual (via online Zoom meeting room) America/New_York public

Presented by the Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ):

Supporting Our Students: Building Connections for Communication

Elena Kamenetzky
Eastern High School, Louisville, KY
2021 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year

TIME: 10:00am-12:00 pm (EST - Ohio)
Registration/Zoom meeting details: Registration Link

OATJ Website: Link

Free, but current AATJ/OATJ membership is required. Please renew your 2022 membership at http://www.aatj.org/membership, if you have not done so yet.

These past few years have brought unprecedented uncertainty into students’ lives. But the world language classroom can support students in unique and unexpected ways! In this workshop we will explore how language learning can develop communication skills and self-confidence to build learners’ resilience and support their mental health. Participants will acquire strategies to help learners lower their affective barriers and develop healthy relationships.

Presenter: Elena Kamenetzky
Elena Kamenetzky-sensei is a Japanese teacher at Eastern High School in Louisville, KY. She is a recipient of the 2021 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year and the 2020 SCOLT (Southern Conference of Language Teaching) Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.

This event is sponsored in part by the East Asian Studies Center and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to the East Asian Studies Center at OSU.