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Marc Alfred Waterfield
Canada
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Field
English as a Foreign Language, Teacher Development
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Degree
MA TESOL (Kumamoto University), PhD Applied Linguistics (Kumamoto University)
Message to Applicants
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
-Charles R. Swindoll
There are no limits on our potential but those which we place on ourselves. Let’s commit to striving for improvement. No limits, only potential!
Research Topics |
- Professional Teacher Development Strategies and Approaches
- Pedagogy
- Language Teaching Methods and Theories
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- Karate-do as a Method for Health
- Wellness and Lifelong Learning
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Research Achievements |
Publications
- A Case Study of an Independent Professional Development Project in a Japanese Private Secondary School (2019)
- Teacher Development Through Mentorship (2018)
- Finding a Place for Karate-do in Mainstream Education (2015)
- Revitalizing Lesson Study in Japanese High Schools through Redefining the Process (2014)
- Using Action Research in the Oral Communications Classroom (2011)
Presentations
- Guest Lecture Muroran ITU International Seminar at Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan (2019)
- Teachers Working Collaboratively to Affect Positive Change in the Classroom: A Case Study of Four Japanese Teachers of English at IAFOR Asian Conference on Education, Tokyo, Japan (2018)
- Using Action Research to Revise a Course Syllabus According to Students’ Needs in a Japanese Senior High School English Communications Course at Sojo University Teaching and Learning Forum (NanKyu JALT) Kumamoto, Japan (2016)
- Kumamoto Prefectural Private School English Teachers’ Teacher Development Seminar, Workshop, & Pannell Discussion at Kumamoto Private School English Teachers Association, Kumamoto, Japan (2016)
- Finding a Place for Karate-do in Mainstream Education at IAFOR Asian Conference on Education, Kobe, Japan (2015)
- ACE ACSET 2015 featured presentation Power and Empowerment a Demonstration of Chito-Ryu Karate-do A Social Constructivist Approach Toward Teacher at International Academic Forum Asian Conference on Education Kobe, Japan (2015)
- Learning: A Case Study Aimed at Revitalizing the Japanese Teacher Development Approach ‘Jugyokenkyu’, Internationally Recognized as Lesson Study at IAFOR Asian Conference on Education, Osaka, Japan (2014)
- Teacher Collaboration for Professional Learning Through Lesson Study (Jugyokenkyu): A Case Study of a Japanese High School at 11th Asian TEFL International Conference, Manila, Philippines (2013)
- Revitalizing Lesson Study in Japanese Senior High Schools through redefining the process: A case study atWorld Association of Lesson Studies International Conference, Singapore (2012)
- Using Action Research in the Oral Communications Classroom at IAFOR Conference the Inaugural Asian Conference on Language Learning, Osaka, Japan (2011)
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Courses Taught |
- AW3 Introduction to Cultures of English-speaking Countries
- ENG1 English 1
- ENG2 English 2
- RDG2 Reading 2
- RDG3 Reading 3
- PBL1 Regional Cultures of Japan 1
- ST1 Senior Thesis 1
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Associations |
- EIKEN Foundation of Japan
- JALT
- JALT Teacher Development Special Interest Group
- International Chito-Ryu Karate-do Federation (ICKF)
- ALL Japan Karate-do Federation (JKF)
- Saint Mary’s University Alumni
- JACET
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