There’s a reason why Okayama City’s teachers are considered some of the best in the country, it’s because they are all forced to teach on their own and hence usually just get on with the job instead of only discussing how to get on with the job! As it’s my 5th ( 6th?) year here…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okayama-japan-linking-it-up-lack-of-communication-skills/
Today I had my super group of teachers who have been attending all week plus they were joined by another big group of teachers and student teachers. I had to do a “basics” workshop but it was tough as there were many students who hadn’t yet taught, hence you don’t get the look of relief…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okinawa-day-4-in-review/
No matter how many times I do these “jissen” ( where the teachers teach ) workshops I always have a sinking feeling part way through that the teachers will never make it and we’ll end up finishing with them even more confused than where we started. But luckily every time ( so far!) we get…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okinawa-day-3-the-task-fills-the-time/
Even though I have a very small class of teachers today it seemed to take quite a long time to work through 2 themes each. I think it probably had a lot to do with having a mixed class of elementary school teachers ( who the course is aimed at) and private school teachers who…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okinawa-day-2-lesson-plans/
Luckily I flew in to Okinawa yesterday, so avoided the big explosion at the airport this morning. This week I’m teaching a three and a half day certificated course for J-Shine. So today we had plenty of time for problem solving and Q&As. I also tried out an idea I got from the “Next Internet…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okinawa-crash-simpleology/
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