In 2025, AJET is running a series of professional learning seminars aimed at supporting newly arrived and current ALTs as they transition into a teaching role. These series are as a result of feedback from JETs in the 2023 Opinion Exchange Survey that indicated a need for further professional development.
This seminar focuses on 7 Key Areas:
1. My role as an ALT
2. Life at school
3. Communicating with colleagues
4. Key Curriculum Resources
5. What a lesson looks like – ES and JHS/SHS
6. How a classroom can be effectively managed
7. Use of images and gestures for effective communication
By the end of the session, participants should feel confident in:
– what their role and expectations are as an ALT as according to CLAIR
– their understanding of how a day runs at a school
– communicating with colleagues
– key curriculum resources and textbooks
– what a lesson plan is and how a lesson is conducted
– the tools needed to be confident in front of a class
– using gesture and images in their lesson
Presenter
This seminar is presented by Kurtis Carter, Co-Director of Educational & Professional Learning. Kurtis worked in Australia as secondary teacher for over 5 years. In that time, he developed strong skills in classroom management and has taken on supervising teacher roles and leadership positions – supporting undergraduate students of education to complete their teaching internships.
Alongside his current position, Kurtis is also the Secretary and Administration Officer of the Japanese Teachers Association of New South Wales, where he works with a team of expert educators in designing and implementing professional learning to support teachers and students studying Japanese in NSW, Australia.
As a part of the AJET team, Kurtis wants to facilitate professional learning seminars to assist JETs on their language learning and educational & professional journeys.
If you have any additional questions or queries please email prof.edu@ajet.net
