Teachers College

The Creative Classroom: Jazz Chants, Music & Poetry

Presenter: Carolyn Graham
Date: Friday, December 4th, 2009
Time: 7:00-9:00pm

Description:

This two-hour seminar will explore the use of jazz chants in the language classroom. Learn how to create a grammar chant, a vocabulary chant or a chant designed to develop everyday conversation skills. Ms. Graham will discuss the creation and performance of songs and the use of rhythm and simple movement as tools for language development. Explore storytelling, creating and performing poetry and the in-class performance of poetry and jazz chants. This seminar is appropriate for all language teaching contexts, young learners, junior and senior high schools, conversation schools, and even for adults!

About the Presenter:

Carolyn Graham taught English as a Second Language at New York University for 25 years and was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard for nine summers. She currently is working primarily as an author and teacher trainer, giving annual seminars at NYU School of Education and Columbia Teachers College in New York and Tokyo. She is the creator of Jazz Chants and has presented her techniques for using chanting, poetry and music in the classroom throughout the world. She is also a professional musician who worked in the piano bars of New York and Boston for twenty years. (top)

---

Pragmatic Tone: What is it and how does it work?

Presenter: Dr. Leslie M. Beebe
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Education at Columbia University Teachers College
Date: Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Time: 6:00-7:00pm (Reception: 7-8 pm)

Description:

Pragmatic tone is a largely neglected area of study, yet tone is responsible for a greater part of understanding communication than word choice or grammar. Metaphorically, tone (Beebe and Waring, 2002) is the "color of emotion and attitude on language." Tone can signal an affective stance (e.g., hostile), an epistemic stance (e.g., tentative), a relational stance (e.g., motherly) or a speech activity (e.g., apologetic). This paper draws on research at Teachers College to demonstrate how the tone of language is established and how sometimes inadvertent uses of linguistic devices lead to intercultural misunderstandings

About the Presenter:

Leslie M. Beebe is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Education at Columbia University Teachers College where she was Director of the Applied Linguistics Program for twelve years and Director of the TESOL Program for two years. She is one of the founders of the original Tokyo M.A. Program in TESOL. A former President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, she is Editor and co-author of Issues in Second Language Acquisition: Multiple Perspectives, co-author of English in the Cross-Cultural Era, and co-author of Cross Talk: Understanding Misunderstandings between Americans and Japanese. She has also been Editor of the Forum for the Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics . She publishes widely in the areas of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and discourse analysis (especially cross-cultural and acquisitional pragmatics). (top)

---

Life Connections: Teenagers' Responses to "Museum Art"

Presenter: Dr. Olga Hubard,
Assistant Professor of Art Education, Department of Arts & Humanities
Date: Friday, August 7th, 2009
Time: 7:00-8:30pm (doors open at 6:00 pm)

Description: This talk will involve the presentation of a qualitative study on the relationship of adolescents and artworks. The study shows how urban adolescents from the US draw upon particular aspects of their lives to read an early Renaissance Western painting. In doing so, this research confirms that viewers can gain important insights into artworks when they engage with them from their own cultural and individual perspective. The featured study also reminds us that historical works that may appear irrelevant to today's youth are not as foreign as they may initially seem.

About the Presenter: Olga Hubard is Assistant Professor in Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Olga received her Ed.D and MA in Art Education from Teachers College. She also holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Art History from the Universidad Iberoamericana. She teaches courses in museum education, art education research, cultural diversity in art education, and painting. Her research has been published in Studies in Art Education, Art Education, Curator: The Museum Journal, the International Journal for Art and Design Education, and the International Journal of Education and the Arts, among other academic periodicals.

Before joining the faculty of Teachers College, Olga worked as an educator and administrator in a variety of school and museum settings. Through her work at Teachers College, she continues to collaborate with museums including MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and the Queens Museum of Art. (top)

---

Dr. Burton's Open Lecture:

Presenter: Judith M. Burton. Ed.D.FRSA
Director of Art Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University
Date: Friday June 19, 2009
Time:7:00-8:30 pm

Lecture Title: Artistic and aesthetic development of children and adolescents in relation to museums and other cultural organizations

Dr. Judith Burton came to the United States from Great Britain in 1974, she taught in the Newton Public Schools and at the Massachusetts College of Art. She completed her doctoral work at Harvard University while chairing the Art Education Program at Boston University. In 1990 she was invited to direct the Program in Art and Art Education at Columbia University Teachers College and more recently served as Chairperson of the newly created Department of the Arts and Humanities.

Dr. Burton's research focuses on the contribution of the arts to human growth and development; her many publications include a series of articles entitled "Developing Minds" which has become standard reading in art education programs. Dr. Burton was honored by The National Art Education Association with the prestigious Viktor Lowenfeld Award for her contribution to the profession of art education. She has also revised Lowenfeld's famous text Creative and Mental Growth which is widely read in art and psychology programs round the world.

Application: E-mail to office@tc-japan.edu indicating "Dr. Burton's open lecture," your name, occupation, e-mail address, contact address, and phone number.
Application deadline: Wednesday, June 17.
Cost: Free (top)

---

The Creative Classroom: Jazz Chants, Music and Poetry For Adult and Young Learners

Presenter: Carolyn Graham
Date: Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Time: 2:30-5:30pm

Description:

This three-hour seminar will explore the use of jazz chants in the language classroom. Learn how to create a grammar chant, a vocabulary chant or a chant designed to develop everyday conversation skills. Ms. Graham will discuss the creation and performance of songs and the use of rhythm and simple movement as tools for language development. Explore storytelling, creating and performing poetry and the in-class performance of poetry and jazz chants. This seminar is appropriate for all language teaching contexts, young learners, junior and senior high schools, conversation schools, and even for adults!

About the Presenter:

Carolyn Graham taught English as a Second Language at New York University for 25 years and was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard for nine summers. She currently is working primarily as an author and teacher trainer, giving annual seminars at NYU School of Education and Columbia Teachers College in New York and Tokyo. She is the creator of Jazz Chants and has presented her techniques for using chanting, poetry and music in the classroom throughout the world. She is also a professional musician who worked in the piano bars of New York and Boston for twenty years. (top)

---

Thinking Outside the Frame

Presenter: Judith M. Burton. Ed.D.FRSA, Teachers College Columbia Education Director of Teaching, Department of the Arts and Humanities Director of Programs in Art and Art Education
Date: Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Time: 3:00-5:00pm

Description:

In recent years, cultural institutions such as Museums have played in increasingly participatory role in the education of children and adolescents. However, museums themselves are increasingly influenced by global forces of change that hold cultural diversity and national identity within uneasy balance. Within this, I will argue, we have much to learn from the responses of young people to works of culture: fine and popular arts. For as they respond to works of culture, young people undertake journeys in thinking which interweave the socio-cultural context of their everyday lives with mental operations that form their interpretative frameworks. Within their responses we find young people reaching out to the 'human dimension' of art, offering us clues about the possibilities of conversations across time and space and difference. The responsibility of museums, it will be suggested is to put audiences at the heart of their priorities, especially the young, and understanding the depth and reach of their approaches to learning as this relates to their collections. Furthermore, collaborations between schools and museums, if imaginatively conceived, can offer fruitful grounding for the kind of learning that inspires thoughtful independence, a healthy questioning of cultural norms, and a reaching out to others.

About the Presenter:

Dr. Judith Burton came to the United States from Great Britain in 1974, she taught in the Newton Public Schools and at the Massachusetts College of Art. She completed her doctoral work at Harvard University while chairing the Art Education Program at Boston University. In 1990 she was invited to direct the Program in Art and Art Education at Columbia University Teachers College and more recently served as Chairperson of the newly created Department of the Arts and Humanities.

Dr. Burton's research focuses on the contribution of the arts to human growth and development; her many publications include a series of articles entitled "Developing Minds" which has become standard reading in art education programs. Dr. Burton was honored by The National Art Education Association with the prestigious Viktor Lowenfeld Award for her contribution to the profession of art education. She has also revised Lowenfeld's famous text Creative and Mental Growth which is widely read in art and psychology programs round the world. (top)

---

Describing Japanese Language and Text: Applications of Systemic Functional Theory

Presenters: Motoki Sano (the National Institute for Japanese Language)
Yumiko Mizusawa (the University of Wollongong in Australia)
Date: Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Time: 2:30-4:30 pm

Description:

Describing any language in context is not merely a matter of "structure". It is also a matter of "function". Considering both structure and function enables an understanding of language as a form of social behaviour. One theory that allows a researcher to interpret language from both a functional and a structural perspective is Systemic Functional (SF) theory. In this seminar, by employing SF theory, we will explore some of the characteristics of Japanese language and texts. The exploration will be carried out through two presentations: the first one will examine the complexity of Japanese texts (by Mr.Sano) and the second one will explore the nature of the genre of Directives in Japanese administrative contexts (by Ms. Mizusawa).

About the Presenters:

Motoki Sano is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Japanese Language. He is a member of the "NIHONGO CORPUS" project, where he contributes to the construction of the first Japanese balanced corpus, "Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese". His speciality is text typology employing Systemic Functional theory.

Yumiko Mizusawa is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Her interests include language use in Japanese and Australian workplaces, cross-cultural differences, and language acquisition. (top)

---

How to Get Published

Presenter: Steve Cornwell, Ed. D. (JALT Journal editor)
Date: Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Time: 2:30-4:30

Description:

Whether studying for a masters or a doctorate; conducting quantitative or qualitative research, or working as a teacher or administrator, one thing that almost all of us working in education have in common is the need to publish. Many of us live in a publish-or-perish world, and even if we do not feel the pressure to publish, publishing offers a chance to engage with our colleagues about our work. This presentation will help writers understand the publishing process from selecting a journal and submitting an article to receiving reviewer's feedback, and handling revisions (and even how to disagree with a review).

About the Presenter:

Steve Cornwell is a graduate of the Ed.D. program at Temple University Japan and the MAT program at the School for International Training. He is editor of the JALT Journal. In addition to his editing work, he has been an Editorial Advisory Board member for JALT publications, has served on the Publications Committee for TESOL, Inc. and has reviewed manuscripts for various publishers including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, McGraw Hill, and Macmillan Education. (top)

---

---