Today was a workshop in Shiga organised by Margit, who many of you will know from the blog comments and forum. She also brought along some of her owners’ club materials, including some very cute super-mini cards!
We had around half the teachers as primary school teachers and half the teachers who have their own school that is a famous franchise. So the primary school teachers were mainly looking for how to jazz up the Eigo Note and the other teachers were looking for ideas on how to enliven their normal classes.
If you already have a set curriculum…
If you have to teach a set curriculum like this, my usual recommendation is to simply take the target theme from the materials you have to teach, but then introduce it using the Genki English songs & games. That way the kids actually learn and can use the English so then you can go back and do the often drier exercises from the textbook with ease.
Of course ideally you’d use the Genki English curriculum because that’s based on what the kids actually want to speak, which is much easier to teach!
Content wise we did Disco Warm Up, String Game, Sticky Fingers & Nemo to go with Under the Sea, Wie heisst du?, Genki Korean plus lots of education theory, how to really motivate the most shy kids and a touch on how to discipline the not so shy kids!
It was a great day and thank you to everyone for all the great questions!
My next workshop is in Okinawa on the weekend of the 26th/27th so please come along if you can, details are here.
And today’s workshop was on the shores of the beautiful lake Biwa …..
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