Tokyo Association of International Preschools held its annual conference on Saturday, March 13, hosted by the International School of the Sacred Heart.
TAIP presented a full-day program with a choice of two workshops in the morning. Robert Skinner, Head of the ESL Program at Columbia International School in Saitama, presented on “Differentiated Vocabulary Instruction,” and Mayumi Murata and Joei Lau from Right Brain Research, Inc. taught participants how to tap into their imaginations and creativity through art.
During the afternoon, Diane W. Frankenstein, author of Reading Together: Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read, shared her thoughts on raising children who love to read. Ms. Frankenstein is an educational consultant and lecturer based in San Francisco, and she visited Japan especially to speak to TAIP conference participants.
For more information about TAIP’s activities, go to http://www.tokyopreschools.org.
