This document provides information about a teacher development workshop taking place on July 25th, 2015 at Sophia University in Tokyo. The workshop runs from 1:30pm to 4:45pm and has 50 available spaces. Those interested must register by email. The workshop consists of two sessions, the first focusing on developing students' critical thinking and evaluation skills, and the second on classroom techniques like essential questions and Socratic seminars to develop analysis and creation abilities. The workshop is hosted by Sophia University's Linguistic Institute for International Communication.

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Date: Saturday 25th July 2015 Time: 13:30­16:45 Places available: 50
Venue: Room L­821 (Central Library), Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
To register, please send your name and affiliation to linstic@sophia.ac.jp.
Session 1— Thinking s kills
Participants will experience teaching approaches that develop students' cognitive abilities,
integrating critical thinking into the classroom. Participants will also explore ways to equip
students to evaluat e the reliability and credibility of sources of knowledge as independent
learners outside the classroom.
Session 2— Productive questions
This session focuses on two classroom techniques that develop students' abilities to analyse,
evaluate and create: Essential Questions and Socratic Seminars. Participants will become
familiar with both techniques and will put them into practice in a context relevant to their own
teaching.
CONT ENT AND LANGU AGE INT EGR AT ED LE ARN ING
Stephanie Grayston & Helen Smith
Stephanie and Helen and their team have
recently developed a new teacher development
course at RMIT English Worldwide, which has a
combined focus on the needs of subject,
language and CLIL teachers. This course
refreshes teachers’ classroom skills and brings
a language focus into the subject classroom and
a subject focus into the language classroom.
上智大学国際言語情報研究所 (SOLIFIC)
Sophia Linguistic Institute for International Communication
Room L-514, 7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554
Tel & Fax 03-3238-3493 Email: i-lincom@sophia.ac.jp