Many ALTs have written saying how their board of education has asked them to do a workshop for the Japanese Elementary School teachers in their town. Many people have written asking for help so here’s a post I put on the forum a few weeks ago: I’ve also put up an article on the site…

OK, so the aim of today’s workshop was to get the teachers able to teach on their own. The plan was quite simple: 1) Put them in groups of three or four. 2) Give them a printed copy of the curriculum in Japanese and 45 minute lesson plan and let them choose a theme to…

Another two day workshop and as this school had had a one day workshop last year covering all the important basics, I just jumped into doing more advanced teaching methods and how to improve the efficiency of the lessons. This school has also bought student packs of all the CDs and the Kids English set….

OK, first things first, I’m going to be back in Okinawa twice next year! In June we’re planning a mini-tour, so if you would like a workshop at your elementary school or for your group of teachers, get in touch now and we’ll get you on the list. Next year my elementary school workshops will…

Today was billed as “songs and games”, and as we covered all the important theory and motivation bits yesterday, that’s what we did all morning. In fact the first hour we spent doing the the full “Left & Right” lesson in real time, just to show what sort of speed a class would go (…

I’ve been looking forward to this workshop for a while now, instead of a 1 hour “sales pitch” or 3 hour introduction, I have three full days of professional development workshops which is itself part of a 2 week long programme. About half the participants were elementary school teachers and about half were student teachers….