I was up to I don’t what time this morning trying to reply to emails, as I have a feeling I won’t get much chance this week with doing demo lessons for 2,000 kids! Then a flight up to Tokyo, a quick meeting then way up North to Odate City in Akita prefecture. It’s only…

I happened to be in Fukuoka again today so popped along to the Fukuoka teachers group, ACET. I’m sure this must be a particularly talented group of teachers, but if other teachers groups in other parts of the country do similar things in their meetings, there must be so many great new teaching ideas still…

First things first, today I put up 3 new Do you like…? listening quizzes ( very simple, you listen to the CD and put a cross or tick by each word) and also another crossword and domino set. I also put a new link on the main menu where you can go straight to the…

As you have probably found out, printing out hundreds of picture cards can be a nightmare, especially if your school or board of education puts a strict limit on how much ink you can use. One option is to print at home where you can take advantage of cheap ink replacement cartridges. One other idea…

This morning I was thinking back and it’s only a few years since AJET offered Genki English a spare room to put on an unofficial workshop after the main Tokyo Recontracting Conference. At the time the Ministry of Education didn’t even admit ALTs visited elementary schools. Hence there were no travel expenses and one time…

Today was the Tokyo version of the Kobe JET Programme renewers conference I did last month, which both together had about 1,000 participants. As usual it was a different vibe in Tokyo to Kobe ( bigger city, so people are more dispersed I guess), and things were overall very good. I did, however, mess up…