MAATJ March Newsletter

In this March MAATJ Newsletter, there are several time sensitive items. Please see the headlines below
with the important dates.
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AATJ Annual Spring Conference in Chicago (3/26)

FLAVA Session Proposal (4/17)
Japan Foundation Grants and Scholarship (various deadlines)
Paid internship (5/13)
Professional Development Opportunities
MAATJ First Annual Karaoke Contest
Save LaGuardias AP Japanese Class

8. News from the member schools

9. News from our webmaster
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AATJ Annual Spring Conference in Chicago (3/26)
View and download the conference program, and register, at http://www.aatj.org/conferences-spring.
FLAVA Session Proposal (4/17)
Call for Proposals for FLAVA 2015 annual conference
The Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) provides an opportunity to share innovative
teaching, technology, research and student success strategies. 2015 annual conference will be held on
September 24-26 in Williamsburg. Send in your proposal by April 17, 2015. Watch a brief how-to video
on the process of submitting a proposal at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VZ5MDeHbG8. Submit
a proposal using the online form at http://flavaweb.org/conference/2015-conference/conference-call-forproposals/
Japan Foundation Grants and Scholarship
There are various grants through Japan Foundation.

Salary Assistance Grant for Japanese Language Courses (Deadline: 4/10)

Japanese Language Education Project Grant (Deadline: two months before the program starts)
JET Memorial Invitation Program (Deadline 4/15) National Japanese Exam score required.

Paid Internship (Deadline 5/13)

See the attached file.
Summer Course at University of Virginia
See the attached file.

Professional Development Opportunities

Professional Development at Univ. of Hawaii (Online Institute)

The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaiii at Manoa offers a
professional development opportunity focused on project-based language learning (PBLL).
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2015 (March 1, 2015 for Intensive Summer Institute applicants)

CARLA summer institutes 2015

http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/

MAATJ First Annual Karaoke Contest

This is our new initiative for the member teacher teachers and their students to show their enthusiasm and
ownership to the language they learn. Our winners this year are the following group. They will receive
the certificate and gift certificates. Hope we see more individual and group submissions next year!
Elementary Division (group)
First Place: Gunston Elementary School (Geiser Sensei)
High School Division (group)
First Place: Boonsboro High School (Shiga Sensei)
Second Place: Lake Braddock Secondary School (Abrams sensei)
Save LaGuardias AP Japanese Class
Our Principal decided not to offer AP Japanese next year even though
we have 45 students who want to register for the class. Please sign
the petition to save our program! https://www.change.org/p/principal-mars-and-the-administration-offiorello-h-laguardia-high-school-save-laguardia-s-ap-japanese-class

NEWS FROM MEMBER SCHOOLS:

(Abrams-sensei)
See the attached report.
International Night (Lawless-sensei)
See the attached report.
Karuta Workshop with Stone Sensei
See the attached report.
14 preschoolers visited Japanese class (Moormsan-sensei)

Today our third period Japanese class had 14 preschoolers to learn the Japanese children's song along
with our high school students. They are from the early child development class. I was surprised that two
of them knew Zousan and Tulip in Japanese and did sing along with our students. I have then posted t
this photo with explaining about their participation on our school's mail site. A cute advocacy?
Today we had PARC testing (state mandated test), and many 10th graders missed from regular
classroom. Our empty chairs were filled with very young and very cute students.

NEWS FROM OUR WEBMASTER:

Doodle

http://tinyurl.com/mjf4vyq

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