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Japanese Teacher Training Workshop
Please note, the JTTW will not be offered in 2007.

The Cornell Japanese Teacher Training Workshop is an intensive summer workshop that provides participants with an organized methodology and supervised teaching practice in Japanese language teaching. It consists of four hours per day of practice teaching and instruction. Instruction will be given in English as well as Japanese; in addition, practice teaching of Japanese will be required as the main part of the program.

Robert J. Sukle is the director of both JTTW and the intensive Japanese FALCON  (Full-year Asian Language CONcentration) program. Director Sukle has been working in the field for more than 30 years and serves as an expert tester for several universities.  Cornell's Japanese Teacher Training Workshop was founded in 1979 by Cornell Professor Emerita, Eleanor H. Jorden, in order to provide participants with an organized methodology and supervised teaching practice. It is now the case more than ever before that only those with the most training and professional preparation will be the ones who get the teaching positions. Participants have ranged from PhD candidates with no experience teaching Japanese, to native speakers with no previous pedagogy training, to veteran teachers looking for a new perspective. Some participants are interested in teaching in high school and others at college level.