Sustainability Education is a hugely important new trend and is something I’m hoping to help with in the future. Long-time Genki English contributor, Joel Bacha, is conducting research to assist the new UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Part of the research investigates the perceptions of the word ‘sustainability’ across languages and cultures through…

I ordered Brett Manning’s Singing Success vocal programme today. In his “Philosophy of Learning” section he writes: Have you ever seen the movie Karate Kid?  Singing Success uses the same “wax on, wax off” approach to learning.  You’ll improve steadily by doing simple exercises that retrain your muscles to automatically respond with new coordinations.  That’s…

If you enjoy reading my blog ( why else would you be here? : ) ), then two very Genki English readers have set up their own. They run down what they do in their lessons and it’s a great insight into how other teachers put the stuff to use in real classrooms. Have a…

Two posts in one day, eh. Here’s an idea I just heard from Koko, a teacher in Fukuoka, – Halloween Janken! It’s just like normal Janken, but “rock” becomes “Pumpkin“, “paper” becomes a “Spider” ( your fingers become legs) and “scissors” is a V for “Vampire!”. Pumpkin, spider, vampire, 1,2,3! Enjoy!

I put another two picture books in the “beta test” section of the forum today. One is to go with CD5’s “Creepy Crawlies” theme, and one is a Christmas mashup of CD5’s “Where is Mr Monkey?” ( under on, in etc.) and CD4’s “Where, where, where?“. Have a look and see what you think! PS…