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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We were walked into the school today by another marching band procession, they really do like these big welcomes! Then we were doing evaluation sessions, watching and commenting on two Genki English and two phonics lessons by two teachers who we’d trained in December. As expected they were really, really good! As they were so…
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Wow, this is very exciting news in today’s Japanese press: “After months of speculation, Tokyo this morning declared that English would indeed become an official language of Japan. Prime Minister Taro Aso gave reasons for the decision in a press conference late last night “Due to the economic competition from India and China, as well…
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I got off the plane this morning, in shorts and a t shirt, at 6:30 AM to a temperature of minus 1 degrees! Goose bumps do not go well with a sun tan. It’s freezing! So after a rest and a change of clothes it was off to see one of the new schools. It…
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It’s my last day in Koh Samui today. 🙁 But I’m going to be in Beijing for the next month. 🙂 I’m solid busy for the first week, but have 3 weeks of computer work after that so if you’re in town, give me a shout it would be cool to meet up for a…
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