The British Council ( who are organising my mini Thailand tour next month) are again this year running their Team Teaching competition in Japan. The first prize is a Virgin Atlantic ticket for you and your JTE ( Japanese Teacher of English) from Japan to the UK. Very nice.

I attended the prize giving ceremony last year and to be honest the winners weren’t all that hot ( JTEs translating everything the ALT said was a huge problem!), so I’d say you’ve got a really good chance of winning. And I could be wrong, but I don’t think you have to be a UK ALT to enter, last year’s winner was from Israel.

One of the best entries last year was an Elementary School lesson plan about “trash”. The British Council have put the lesson plan online ( pdf ), it’s well worth a look, as although it’s not that easy to tell what to do from a written page, it was a really good lesson, highly recommended.