The government in Japan have just decided to give a brand new digital whiteboard (although they call them ι»ει»ζΏγelectronic blackboards) to every elementary and junior high school for free. Well, with our tax money anyway! There’s a fair chance that when they arrive they’ll just get put in store cupboards and never used.Β So tell…
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The latest version of the Genki English Manual is out! i.e. the big printable book of lesson plans for each theme. If you’re wanting help to get your head around all the Genki English themes then it will certainly help to print it out and have a look through. I was hoping to spend a…
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One of the things I’m looking at for our private schools for the poor projects is homework. Parents want it and it’s good for them to see what the kids are doing. But printing is way too expensive. Computers are non-existent in homes (as is electricity a lot of the time) The kids having theΒ …
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This part two of my Beijing workshops. See yesterday for part 1! High Level Phonics This afternoon was going through the much more advanced parts of the phonics course. They start off with individual sounds, then move on to alternative ways of writing them e.g. ai, ay a…e etc. Then it moves onto some of…
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Although I’ve been getting reports and feedback from the management, it’s the real, honest, feedback from the teachers I really need. Both to find out what needs changing in the current materials and how to best present the future materials and to select which future activities to give them for each theme. As we, the…
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Today was the first of 2 days follow up teacher training from the week’s training we did in December. Half is me for the listening and speaking and half is the phonics programme for reading and writing. After another address to the school assembly (where the kids had just been doing their morning exercises!) and…
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