This is a bit of a risk for Genki English, but hopefully, with your help in spreading the word, it’s going to help a whole lot of kids; 12 lessons worth of online games, all free to use in class… There’s the full teacher’s guide online, but the beauty of these games is… kids love…

Some people who have a look at the Genki English curriculum simply say “It’s full of questions!” Well, yeah! That’s the side effect of basing it on what kids use when they talk to me, they’re always asking questions. You can of course take the opposite view and instead of teaching what the kids want…

Maybe your higher grade kids might prefer this version of the song!

If you read about a lesson it can be a bit tricky to see how it works in class. But once you see it in action the lightbulb goes off with a “ah, now I see” moment. You already have “How to …” videos of the first 30 songs on the Teaching Guide Videos CDROM,…

Seeing as it was my second time in Nara this week I got quite a bit of press attention. Here’s the TV clip, which didn’t really say much, but let’s you get a feeling for the smaller 30 person practical workshops where teachers get to present themselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxkY-l3sq4 And here’s the Nara Shinbun newspaper article…

If you’ve just arrived on the JET programme and have your first lessons next week, take a couple of hours to run through these pages, they’ll take away most of the panic! Your first day at elementary school What we are supposed to be teaching in Elementary school – it’s probably not what you think!…