Today was the first board of education workshop of the year organised by one of the Ministry of Education’s test schools. They also opened it up to other teachers – including junior high teachers – so we had quite a nice turn out. Content wise it was the usual confidence building & questions: What if…
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After not taking any photos in India last month and regretting it, I went out and bought myself a Casio EX-S10 camera (looks great, very easy to carry) and I’m glad I did because after 5 hours on the train today I arrived in Kumano City in Mie ken (the place of tomorrow’s workshop). This…
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I’ve just spent the last week in Tokyo. I think it’s been my best week of year so far. Jet lag had me fully awake from 4AM so I just ploughed on through and got so much work done. It’s amazing how much I got done. Well the saying goes that if you want to…
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It seems that Japan is a haven of amazing teaching materials produced by foreign teachers.Try this by Koomakids in Kumamoto, then try getting it out of your head. I was very impressed!
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As promised here are some of the ideas I picked up from Hokkaido’s Yorozuya Sensei’s workshop the other day. I’ve added in some extra bits, but his main theme was to try and get some real exchange of information instead of simply practising the English. The latter is fine, but the former is of course…
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Today I was asked by one of the big American cable companies (I don’t think I can tell you which one, but you’ve certainly heard of them) to pop along to their Tokyo offices for a chat. I wasn’t quite sure why, but popped along anyway. It turns out they were wanting to ask me…
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