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PIE SIG Spring Conference
2nd Annual FREE-PIE-on-Zoom Conference: Recipes for PIE 2 2024
Site: Zoom (link to be provided later)
Theme: Recipes for PIE 2
Date: June 15, 2024
June (TBA): Practice for presenters on Zoom
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DESCRIPTION
This conference will build on the first Recipes for PIE held on March 16, 2024 as part of the 2023 academic year. Most presentations will be 25-minute descriptions of PIE activities with a few workshops and performances.
PIE SIG Summer Conference
2nd Annual PIE-on-Lake-Nojiri Conference
Site: Elan Hotel, Shinano-machi, Nagano (5-minute walk from Nojiri Lake Resort) Multi-Purpose Room
Theme: Training Our Future: Teaching Younger Learners (1-18 Years Old)
Dates: August 23-25, 2024
August 23, 2024 (Friday): Officers Planning Meeting, Cultural Event (“Kurohime Dowa-kan” Kurohime Museum of Fairytales, includes folktales of the region, Networking Event
August 24, 2024 (Saturday): 9:00 Registration, 10:00-17:00 Presentations, 6:30-8:30 Networking Dinner: St. Cousair Winery Restaurant
August 25, 2024 (Sunday): 9:00-12:00 Presentations, 12:00-12:30 Clean-up, 12:30-13:30 Lunch, 13:30-17:30 Officers Evaluation and Planning Meeting
Invited Speakers: Kenn Gale, TYL Representative; Darren Kinsman; Kevin Bergman
DESCRIPTION
JALT PIE SIG, in collaboration and cooperation with various JALT groups, are proud to sponsor this conference. The theme of the conference is “Training Our Future: Teaching Younger Learners (0-18 Years Old).” The primary focus of this conference will be on the teaching of performance activities to children from nursery school to high school. Performances are welcome. Of course, presentations on general PIE activities, research, and performances also are welcome!
Come to lovely Lake Nojiri in northern Nagano to enjoy beautiful nature and the fruits of the field and vineyard!
Welcome from the Conference Chair
Whitney Houston sang:
I believe that children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride and make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
As the proud father of a wonderful daughter, I sincerely believe these words. I also believe the teachers of children are the foundation of our profession in general and the Performance in Education SIG in particular. If we introduce performance activities to students when they are young, “give them a sense of pride,” then teaching PIE activities to our university students will be much easier. They will see their intrinsic value.
What has given me a sense of awe and inspiration is to listen to Kevin Bergman in his quiet, calm voice tell of how he does full-length Shakespeare plays like King Lear and King Henry IV—both in the same year—with high school students—and they liked it! AND he writes the scripts (adapted from the original plays) and directs the productions. And he has done this for many years! Respect.
If he can do this, then so can we. Or, at least we can try. Or, we can do other PIE activities like roleplays, readers theater, oral interpretation, speech, debate, “etc., etc., and so forth.” And who knows? Perhaps some day in the future, some of our students will become teachers and will share with THEIR students the treasure trove of PIE activities, and maybe even add to the mountain of treasure themselves.
David Kluge
President
Performance in Education SIG
PIE SIG Autumn Conference
2nd Annual PIE-in-Nagoya Conference
Site: Moriyama Life-long Learning Center
Theme: PIE for Every Occasion
Dates: November 1-3, 2024
November 1, 2024 (Friday): Officers Planning Meeting, Cultural Event (xx), Networking Event
November 2, 2024 (Saturday): 9:00 Registration, 10:00-17:00 Presentations, 6:30-8:30 Networking Dinner: St. Marc Bakery and Restaurant (Owariasahi)
2nd Party: Ryusenji no Yu Supersento
November 3, 2024 (Sunday): 9:00-12:00 Presentations, 12:00-12:30 Clean-up, 12:30-13:30 Lunch, 13:30-17:30 Officers Evaluation and Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION
Performance in Education activities can be special presents for our students to help them celebrate any occasion, be it a holiday or the end of a unit. Help us prepare to belatedly commemorate Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s . . . or even the end of a unit or semester! Come share your celebratory activities and performances.