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The purpose of this conference is to bring ALTs and JTEs together to share experiences gained while working on the JET program ; discuss team-teaching and other related matters in order to find ways to enhance foreign language education, and to further develop the JET program in Niigata Prefecture.
Below are the workshops held between 2017 and 2019 Skill development conference.
| Workshop title | Presenters | PowerPoint Download |
| Paper’n’Things: Arts and Crafts | Jessica Ing | |
| Negative Feedback | Jerome Fernando | |
| How Can We Communicate? | Samantha Wolfe & Chieri Satou | |
| In it to Win it: Your Guide to Speech Contest | Sarah Wada & Daniel Taylor-Protopapa | |
| Talking the Talk: Studying Japanese | William Norton & Melissa Perez | |
| After-School English: Ideas and Activities for English Club and Eikaiwa | Jonathan Morrisey & Tyler Chilton | |
| Engage, Study, Activate: A Crash Course in TEFL | Nicholas Filipkowski 1 | |
| Simple Phonics & Building Word Recognition for ES (Gr. 3 – 6) | Alice Katindig & Taylor Campbell | |
| Life After JET | Daniel Taylor-Protopapa | |
| Planning an English Camp from Scratch | Ariana Marson | |
| Traveling on a Budget | Grant Friedheim | |
| How to Stay Sane and Be Productive on JET | Jessica Mancoo | |
| First Aid (CPR and AED workshop) | Starsha Wright | |
| Warmers & Fillers in the Class: the Effectiveness of Simplicity and Adaptability | Eli Pappas & Tyler Chilton | |
| Challenging Your English Ability | Daniel TaylorProtopapa | No file |
| Movement in a Classroom Setting | Grace Lui | |
| Earworm: Using Music in the Classroom | Melissa Perez | |
| An ALT’s Survival Guide for Last Minute | Valerie Cripe | |
| Into the Garden: The Gardener’s Assemble |
Disante Johnson | |
| Modern Media and the Classroom: From Anime to Christmas to Zombies | Angela Moor | |
| Can We? Yes We can! working around the kinks of the new EMS textbooks | Penelope Woznicki | |
| Worksheet Magic for Muggles | Jenny Stein |
| Workshop Title | Presenters | Powerpoint Download |
| Traveling Efficiently & Effectively | Nicki Gentile & Nick Benson | |
| Making English Real: An ESL Techniques Toolkit | Sean Callahan | |
| Debate for all Students | Matt Klein | None |
| Motivating Ourselves to motivate students | Anne Marie Hart | |
| Phonics 101 | Chris Linder | |
| No Book, No Directions, too much freedom | Courtenay Nimmo | |
| Working with your JTE: ALT and JTE relationships | Miranda Ferguson & Kellie Crook | |
| Before the textbook: EMS 1st & 4th grade | Richard Thornton | None |
| Challenging your English Ability | Janice Laureano & Rachel Stivers-Bender | |
| Being the center of Attention | Nick Benson | |
| Basic Collaborative Lesson Planning | Bazyl Nettles & Muromoto Hayato | |
| Disaster Preparedness | Brandon Howard & Sean Callahan | PDF ANKI DECK |
| Connecting, Immersing, Volunteering | Tathia MomPremier | |
| New Year, New You! | Jess Mancoo | |
| Japanese Cooking Survival Guide | Sam Wolfe | |
| Life After JET | Janice Laureano & Brandon Howard | |
| Useful Methods for Improving your Japanese | Nick Filipkowski & Tiffany Sheen | |
| CLAIR Lecture | Jonathan Allred |
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