Today was a workshop at Yokohama’s Yashima Gakuen University. There were quite a few people on the bill, including a couple of big stars. The first one was Oosugi Sensei. He’s famous from NHK TV and radio and had a huge fan base crammed into the rather large room. He’s a nice guy, but his…

The teachers at this school were so good in Summer that I promised to pop back in term time to do some demo classes for their kids. The teachers were already aiming high and I wanted to see just how good the kids could get. Obviously this is a fantastic school ( even though it’s…

I usually do the launch of a new CD at the Maruzen book store in Fukuoka, but this year decided to do it as part of the ACET teachers group as they have always been so good to me. Usually it’s a very relaxed vibe, but today we had lots of new teachers who were…

This year I also had 3 days of workshops in Gojo city, Nara… he’s how it went Day 1 – beginnings The main part of the training is the teaching practice, but in order to do that we have to, of course, go through all the basics, and more importantly how different Genki English is…

This time last year I was in the same school as today and the teachers were panicking as they were convinced that from April this year they would have to teach English on their own. All sorts of publishers were pushing out well dodgy textbooks and although teachers were panicky they were actually knuckling down…

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…