A Collaborative Community for the Professional Development of Japanese Language Teachers

• KATO Yukari

  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 日本語教師の実践交流コミュニティによる専門的成長の支援
• ニホンゴ キョウシ ノ ジッセン コウリュウ コミュニティ ニ ヨル センモンテキ セイチョウ ノ シエン

Abstract

This project promotes teacher collaboration for the professional development of Japanese language teachers. Practical activities in an e-portfolio and Learning Management System for six months, following which a focus group interview and questionnaires revealed the following: (1) participants did not have sufficient opportunities to communicate with each other; (2) young teachers were hesitant to express their ideas and opinions to senior participants; (3) continuing discussion among participants was needed to build and sustain a community of practitioners; and (4) e-teaching portfolio was the effective tools for focusing on and analyzing their own practices. Based on this practice, in the second period (Nov. 2012-May, 2013), participants were divided into eight sub-groups and were collaboratively conducting project work for student exchange and planning the seminar for local teachers through web sites.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Educational Media Research

  Japanese Journal of Educational Media Research 20 (2), 35-44, 2014

  Japan Association for Educational Media Study

Keywords

• Japanese Language Education
• Sustainable Teacher Education
• Scholarly Teaching
• Scholarship of teaching and Learning
• e-Portfolio

Details

• CRID: 1390282680812437760
• NII Article ID: 130006078904
• NII Book ID: AA11144471
• DOI: 10.24458/jaems.20.2_35
• ISSN: 24242527
• ISSN: 13409352
• NDL BIB ID: 025540815
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I025540815
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • NDL
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed