The school year is coming to an end. Over the past year, you have surely been engaged in a variety of teaching practices and have felt and thought about many things.

You have probably exchanged information about your own teaching practices, concerns, worries and issues with your colleagues, or in communities related to Japanese language education. However, there may be many people who find it difficult to find someone to talk to about these issues, or who have no one to talk to, so their own problems still feel vague to them.

In either case, it may be difficult to have time to talk to each other due to the busy nature of daily life. And sometimes you may want inspiration from someone new.

So this time, The Japan Foundation, London, has decided to create an online space for everyone to look back on the past year's teaching practices and bring together things that have been on teachers’ minds recently to share them with each other.

Let's inspire each other and use this inspiration as energy to work in 2023-24!

The Day’s Procedure:

• This event will be held in the style of an “Open Space Conference (Unconference)”, where the organisers do not set the theme.
• Suggest and share a topic to discuss with all participants, and talk about it in breakout rooms.
• Each breakout room sessions will be about 30-40 minutes, and held 2-3 times.

Date/Time: 25th June 2023 (Sunday), 10:00 am – 12:30 pm (BST)

Venue: Zoom meeting

Facilitator: OFUNE Chisato (Chief Japanese language Advisor, The Japan Foundation, London)

Spoken language: Japanese and English

Target Audience: Japanese language educators in the U.K.

*Applications from those in other regions will also be accepted.

Maximum Number of Participants: 50

Flyer: Available soon

Contact: events.japanese@jpf.go.jp (English and Japanese) 

To apply, please click here to fill out an application form

Application deadline: 19th June 2023 (Monday), 15:00