Recently I got sent away to another school for seven work days. This school is one of the lowest-level schools in Mie but the teachers were really nice. In fact, they were a lot friendlier and easy to talk to than the teachers at Shiroko High School, who I still feel maintain a very cold environment in their large teacher's room. This other ( Read more... )

It's that time of the year again. As Spring break ends and the cherry blossoms fall, students begin a new year of school and teachers teach new curriculum, some even move to different schools ( Read more... )

My classes with the new first-years finally began yesterday. The standard ALT protocol for any time you teach a group of students for the first time is to do a lesson based around introducing yourself. Last time I did my self-introduction lessons I was a rookie; they were my very first lessons at the school. Now I've been teaching (with ( Read more... )

Well, my first class at Ujiyamada is over. It's technically not my first class because I've already taught twice at the fishing village (Nanto), but it's my first "real" class. The students were surprisingly quiet and had a high comprehension of my little self-introduction paragraph. Ujiyamada High School is considered a "high-level" high school ( Read more... )