IE Orientation--Saturday, April 2nd, 10:00am-1:35pm
Hybrid event: ZOOM & room 17308“Flipped Orientation”
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SCHEDULETIMETHEMECONTRIBUTORS
10:00-10:20 Introduction and opening remarks
Dias, Reimann
10:20-10:40 IE CoreSession 1
Literary terms / Book reports
Media Discussions
10:40-11:00 Active Listening
Session 2[Skills & Techniques applicable tomultiple courses]

Bollinger, Fuhlendorf, Gould, Butler,
Nelson

11:00-11:20 Academic Skills
Session 3

Bruce

11:20-11:40 IE Writing
Session 4
Advanced Academic Writing (a course
students have the option to take after
going through the IE Program)

Skeates, Reimann

11:40-12:00 IE Seminars
Session 5

Parham, Broadbridge

Takasugi, De Jong

12:00-12:10: Closing Remarks
12:10-13:15: EnglishCentral Updates
Session 6a(Guest Speaker: Camille Loyola)

13:15-13:35: Mental Wellness Forum
Session 6b(Convener: Dias)Directory of teacher-created videos and some supplemental
ones that may be of general interest
It is hoped that teachers will take the time to watch as many of these videos as possible before
the IE Orientation to maximize the time devoted to discussion of themes and points covered inthem during the orientation sessions.
Session 1: IE Core / Literary terms / Book reports/ Media Discussions
Media Topic Discussions (BJ Butler)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693425620
BJ Butler introduces the Media Topic Discussion, one of the main activities at all three levels ofthe IE Core course.
Literary Terms & Book Reports (Deborah Bollinger)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/694695850
Deborah Bollinger gives useful tips for teaching the literary terms and preparing students fortheir IE Core book reports.
Helping Students Identify Symbols in Novels for IE Core book reports (Arno Fuhlendorf)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693833657
Arno Fuhlendorf offers a practical and systematic approach to helping students identify symbols
encountered in the books they’re reading for their Core book report.
Book Report Guide (Fraser Gould)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693833657
Fraser Gould advises on how the book report task in IE Core can be approached. He has
generously offered to share an excellent supplemental text he has written that can be used inconjunction with the IE Core & Writing Booklet. It will be shared with teachers on the IE
Website: https://aogaku-daku.org/ie-program-textbooks-guidelines-and-handbooks/.
Integrating Newspaper Articles into Your Core 2 Class with Moodle (Forrest Nelson)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/694689149
Forrest Nelson demonstrates how he integrates newspaper articles in his Core 2 class using
Moodle.
Session 2: Active Listening [Skills & Techniques applicable to multiple courses]
Presentation Skills: Making the process less intimidating (Mike de Jong)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/694259861
Mike de Jong speaks about how anxiety around making presentations can be reduced by taking
a systematic approach to planning for them.

Welcome Questions (Catherine Takasugi)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693413465
Catherine Takasugi introduces the idea of “welcome questions,” an innovative way of taking
attendance and a clandestine method for checking our students’ state of mind and current
well-being.
Inclusivity in the Classroom (Catherine Takasugi)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693428000
Catherine Takasugi talks about how to ensure inclusivity across all the IE courses.
Evaluating Participation in Various IE Courses (Catherine Takasugi)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693766744
A democratic approach to the creation of criteria for participation over all IE classes is describedby Catherine Takasugi.
Session 3: Academic Skills
Academic Skills’ "One-Minute Lecture Activity" Explained (Jeff Bruce)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/694040681
Jeff Bruce explains a task that he created for the IE Academic Skills course: “One-minuteLectures.”
Session 4: IE Writing/ Advanced Academic Writing (a course students have theoption to take after going through the IE Program)
Setting up the writing on-demand class (Colin Skeates)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693988976
Colin Skeates takes us through the process of setting up the initial on-demand class for the IE
Writing course.
Advanced Academic Writing (Andrew Reimann)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/688210600
Andrew Reimann introduces the Advanced Academic Writing course in this video. This course isintended for 3rd and 4th year students in the English Department who are planning to write agraduation thesis. Although technically not part of the IE Program, the course rests on thefoundations set by the IE Writing and Academic Writing classes that all IE students are requiredto take. The video provides a useful reference for the skills that IE teachers need to prepare
their students to eventually master.
Session 5: IE Seminars
Introducing an IE Seminar A: Issues Through Music (James Broadbridge)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/694225194

James Broadbridge introduces his IE Seminar A: Issues Through Music. He shows how the tasksand goals in the basic IE classes (Core, Active Listening, Writing) can be extended and adapted
for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) courses like these.
Drama Activities (Chris Parham)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/693423457
Chris Parham talks about his use of drama in classes and how teachers can make the most ofthem in their own classes, either as ice breakers or in the context of speech, debate, and roleplaying activities. Here are links to his drama-related books on Amazon.co.jp:
https://tinyurl.com/fkxz89xk / https://tinyurl.com/37c8pctr / https://tinyurl.com/bdcs8cxu .
More information at https://www.dramaandbeyond.com/.
Session 6b: Mental Wellness Forum
When Students are Struggling: Maintaining Mental Hygiene (Joseph Dias)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/694688024
Joseph Dias gives some suggestions and offers resources that may be helpful when reaching outto students who are struggling in one way or another.
Resource videos that may be of common interest
CoursePower Explained on Zoom (Andrew Reimann)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/409493519
Andrew Reimann explains CoursePower on Zoom along with Q&A.
Lights…Camera…Action: The Integrated English Program on the Move. (Joseph Dias &featured IE teachers and students) https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/688959408
This video was created to introduce the IE Program to prospective students attending an “OpenCampus” event. IE Students and teachers explain, in their own words, what the IE Programmeans to them.
IE Program Plagiarism Policy (IE Program ensemble of teachers)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/183083098
AGU Integrated English Program teachers recite the program’s plagiarism policy. [This versionhas Japanese subtitles.]Learning about Plagiarism (Erina Iwai & Yukie Masui)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/183083688
A student who understands the complexities of plagiarism (and how to avoid it) advises her
naive classmate.
Voices of the IE Program (Barnaby Ralph)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/688970060
Barnaby Ralph speaks about what he liked best teaching in the IE Program.

Voices of the IE Program (Clark Richardson)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/688971780
Clark Richardson reminisces about his many years teaching in the IE Program.