What We Do Now

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1. Professianal Development for English teachers

ACROSS, which has been building its activities responding to the environment surrounding English education and the needs of society, is now shifting its center of gravity to a platform for social contribution, limiting its training activities to its current members.

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2. Social Contribution

ACROSS is promoting social contribution activities related to education by inviting a wide range of supporters. Currently, SEEC, an interchange program for students in Cambodia and Japan is underway.

SEEC stands for Supporting English Education in Cambodia.

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3. Understanding the Multicultural World

Starting with the first tour in 1987 (Korea: Seoul and Jeju Island), we have conducted more than 30 tours for multicultural understanding until 2023 (New Zealand).

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History

ACROSS was established in 1975 by the teachers who were inspired by the book "Why English?" (Nakatsu 1974). The main interest of the members was to improve their own voices and English pronunciation, which their students hear every day.

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1975: ACROSS founded

As an independent training group for English teachers, ACROSS has developed a systematic curriculum and voice training for native Japanese-speaking English teachers. In addition, we have created a wide range of training programs for preservice teachers, such as training in expressive techniques to develop self-expression skills, classroom exchange, and learning English teaching methods. We have also planned and implemented study groups for multicultural understanding and overseas training programs, including tours of Asia.

2000 Establishment of NPO e-dream-s

In order to further expand our social contribution activities, we established the NPO e-dream-s. First, as a form of social contribution related to education, we launched an educational photo archive project. The book is available in Japanese, Korean, and English.

2011 Start of Cambodia Education Support Project

In 2011, ACROSS started textbook support project activities for Cambodian schools, and in 2013, started a scholarship support project. 2017, ACROSS invited Cambodian students to Japan to whom ACROSS provided scholarship support, and started a mutual cultural exchange program with Japanese students and students.

2016: Became an NPO ACROSS

With the aim of synergistically advancing ACROSS' origins-improving teaching skills as a teacher, developing multicultural understanding skills required for language education, and further promoting social contributions made by e-dream-s-the e-dream-s merged with ACROSS and changed its name to "ACROSS, a specified nonprofit corporation". ACROSS. We want to be teachers who are always learning and growing.

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＜歴史＞

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前身は『発音研究会』

中津燎子著『なんで英語やるの？』（１９７４年発行）に触発された教員が、日々生徒が聞くことになる「自らの声や英語の発音を改善したい」という思いで、中津燎子さんに指導を請い始まったグループでした。

 

１９７５年　ACROSS創設

英語教員の自主研修グループとしてACROSSは、日本語ネイティブの英語教員を対象とした体系的なカリキュラムを作り、音声訓練を行ってきました。さらに、表現技術を学びながら自己表現力をつけるための研修、授業交流や英語教授法の学習など、多岐に渡る現職教員のための研修を作ってきました。また、多文化理解のための学習会や、アジアツアーをはじめとした海外研修も計画実施してきました。

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２０００年　NPO法人e-dream-s設立

社会貢献に関わる活動をさらに広げるために、NPO法人e-dream-s（イー・ドリームズ）を立ち上げました。まず、教育に関わる社会貢献のかたちとして、教育用写真アーカイブ事業を開始し、２００３年から６年間にわたり、日本万国博覧会記念基金事業の支援を得て、韓国教員との交流プログラムを実施し、日本語・韓国語・英語の３カ国語による相互文化理解教材「Rainbow Over the Strait」を作成しました。

 

２０１１年　カンボジア教育支援プロジェクト開始

２０１１年からカンボジアの学校への教科書支援事業活動を、２０１３年からは奨学金支援事業を開始しました。２０１７年からは、ACROSSが奨学金支援を行ったカンボジアの学生を日本に招致し、日本の生徒・学生との相互文化交流事業に着手しています。

 

２０１６年　NPO法人ACROSSへ

ACROSSの原点である教員としての授業力の向上、語学教育に求められる多文化理解能力の開発、e-dream-sで行ってきた社会貢献のさらなる推進、これらを相乗的に進めることを目的に、e-dream-sはACROSSと統合し、「特定非営利活動法人ACROSS」と改名しました。私たちは、常に学び・成長する教師でありたいと思っています。