Last Thursday, as part of the Working with Picture Books
Project, I went to the primary school affiliated with my
university (hereafter, School A) to give a workshop about using
English picture books. A Japanese colleague in my department
accompanied me. The 研究主任 (lead researcher) of School A also
helped me facilitate the workshop. We have planned to give two
workshops of an hour and a half to the School a teachers about
using English picture books. The first workshop, which has
already been completed, was supposed to help teachers learn
about the structure of a lesson using an English picture book
and the second workshop is designed to give teachers confidence
in reading English picture books. Starting in June, teachers
will start conducting lessons using English picture books which
will have been conceived in these workshops. In this post, I
will summarize the first workshop. As a facilitator I would give
myself a grade of a C -, and I am being generous. I hope that
this post might give readers ideas of som