The Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Grant offers financial assistance to Japanese language teachers in grades K-16, especially those new to the field, for the purpose of attending training workshops, seminars, conferences, and other local, national, or international in-service learning experiences. The grant may also be used to collaborate with a mentor teacher. The grant may NOT be used to purchase textbooks.
Teacher training workshops and seminars attended by the applicant should be focused on pedagogy and issues of teaching and learning.
Cheng & Tsui Publishers, the sponsor of the grant, will award $500 to the grant recipient(s).
Applicants for the Cheng & Tsui Professional Development grants should submit the following to AATJ:
- The application form below, describing how they would use the grant;
- The amount of subsidy requested and a proposed budget (included on the application form below);
- A current Curriculum Vitae (upload into the form below).
Applicants must be current members of AATJ. Recipients are also asked to write a brief report after attending the event for which they were awarded money, summarizing their experience and what they learned. Recipients must use the awarded funds in accordance with the proposal submitted with their application.
Applications will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers selected by the American Association of Teachers of Japanese and who have no professional or personal connections with applicants.
The application form and CV should be completed by September 1.
AATJ is grateful to Cheng & Tsui Publishers for their support of teacher professional development.
For those interested in attending AATJ’s Fall or Spring Conferences for professional development, the Oka Professional Development Fund also provides funds to support AATJ members’ conference attendance (https://aatj.org/grants-scholarships/oka-professional-development-fund/). While AATJ members are welcome to apply for both the Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Grant and the Oka Professional Development Fund, only one award will be given to any individual applicant for attendance to a single conference.