In August 2003, a Teacher's Institute will be held at Showa for Japanese Teachers of English. The two-week session will be taught jointly by faculty from Showa Boston and the School for International Training of Brattleboro, Vermont. Participants will receive intensive instruction in communicative methods of language teaching, with separate sessions devoted to the teaching of speaking and pronunciation, of listening, of reading, or writing, of culture, testing, and the use of drama and music. The program includes class observation, and field trips to historic sites in Boston and New York.

SCHEDULE
DATE	ACTIVITY
August 4	Students arrive
August 5	• Opening Ceremony/Orientation • Class: Discussion of Seminar Goals • Class: Language Learning Theory • Field Trip: Boston City Tour
August 6	• Class: Task based Teaching and Learning • Class: Methods and Theories • Class: Speaking and Pronunciation
August 7	• Class: Task based Teaching and Learning • Class: Speaking and Pronunciation • Class: Teaching Listening
August 8	• Class: Task based Teaching and Learning • Class: Teaching Listening • Class: Teaching Writing • Class: Teaching Writing
August 9	All day trip
August 10	Free Time
August 11	• Class: Teaching Vocabulary • Class: ESL observations • Class: Teaching Techniques
August 12	• Class: Teaching Reading • Class: Teaching Culture • Field Trip: Harvard or Freedom Trail
August 13	• Class: Using Drama and Music • Class: Teaching Techniques • Evaluations • Closing Ceremony
August 14	Departure