Living & Working in Ishikawa, Japan
With the new JETs arriving in two months, now is the time to upload your favorite lesson plans, proposals, and notes to Entrepreneurial Teacher. Give your successor and the rest of the Ishikawa JETs the benefit of your knowledge and experience in a format they can access before they even get to Ishikawa! For example, [...]
ALTs, ever get frustrated looking online for lesson plans, pictures, or activities for your classes? CIRs, ever wonder what to do for a school visit, a cooking lesson, or a speech? There’s a brand-new resource for Ishikawa JETs (and friends) called Entrepreneurial Teacher.
This week, I would like to kick off a mini-forum of lesson planning and worksheet-creating tips and resources. Every classroom and school situation is, indeed, different, but we can all learn from each others’ experiences. Similarly, we can all benefit from each others’ lesson planning related bookmarks!
Please comment with a quick breakdown of a lesson that worked particularly well for you, or, (for those of you who have done teaching or ESL before JET) any helpful tips from your past training/teaching. Also, if you have used any online resources, it would be awesome if you would post a link and describe how you modified what you found.
So, here we go again. It’s the beginning of another school year and there are lots of lessons that need to be planned (insert sound of whip cracking here). But what if you’re feeling a little uninspired, completely uncreative, or just plain sick and tired of your old lessons? Well, that’s easy. You spend the [...]
Try the “Sanka Point System” as a method of motivating students!
Recently I have been teaching one of my sixth grade classes about family. The first lesson I did was all about vocabulary – mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, and cousin. I hate doing simple rote memorization with my kids because they turn comatose and stop paying attention. So, for this class I [...]
Greetings fellow junior high school ALTs! Need an end of year activity for your sannenseis before they leave their innocence behind and enter the big, bad world of high school? Here’s one that takes up at least a whole class period or more if they want to get really creative. My students had such a [...]
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