By offering the M.A. in Tokyo, Teachers College is now providing teachers in Japan with the same quality of professional and academic graduate work it has provided in New York for more than a century. By developing an M.A. program in Tokyo, Teachers College has been able to reflect the values crucial to its view of teacher preparation and language learning and at the same time take into account the critical importance of the context in which language teachers teach. Accordingly, Teachers College sincerely wishes to contribute to Japanese English language education through a model of teacher preparation that emphasizes systematic analysis of actual practices in relationship to key theories in language teaching and learning. Through interaction with individuals actually teaching in the Japanese school system, it is hoped that more professionals at all levels will gain valuable insights into the particular needs of Japanese learners of English. The Teachers College program believes that the latest developments in English language teaching introduced in the M.A. courses will bring about significant and desirable changes in both the teaching and the learning of the participants.
All offerings are in English except in some experimental language learning workshops.
Consequently, Japanese teachers will have many opportunities to read, write, and discuss their ideas in English by participating in the program. More than three hundred students have already been awarded their M.A. degrees through their participation in this program, and there is a thriving Alumni Association which occasionally runs workshops and provides a supportive network for its members.