Living & Working in Ishikawa, Japan
Ever wondered why your JTEs seem to start every sentence with, “Maybe,” “Probably,” or “I think”? Eryk over at This Japanese Life has answered your curiosity with an amusing and informative article on the gap between Western and Japanese notions of surety, “On Japanese Probability.” Check out his article and see if you can’t get [...]
Ahh the Undokai. One of my favorite times of year. September and early October are when many schools have their annual sports festivals. These festivals promote exercise, teamwork and school pride for the students. Upperclassmen will spend hours outside of the normal school day preparing for the undokai and trying to make it the best [...]
This is the first installment of the “How to Dress” series, where we tackle the topic of proper attire for various occasions throughout your JET career. The first of this series is dedicated to the new JETs and what they should wear upon their arrival in Ishikawa. When you arrive in Tokyo, the Orientation Assistants [...]
From the June 2011 CLAIR newsletter: The JET Programme announces the cancellation of the 2012-2013 JET Calendar and JET Diary. We would like to thank current and past participants for the many photos submitted throughout the years. (link) I’m quite sad to see that both of these items have been cut. My JET planner has [...]
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, [...]
Not recontracting? Building your professional resume and cover letter, whether in English or Japanese is, frankly, stressful. How do you convey exactly why and how you are the perfect candidate for a job—and how do you explain JET?
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.
This guest post is by Gavin Lynch of Hokuriku Gakuin University about the October 2010 Cambridge Oral Examiner Training Session.
Learn what kinds of questions the students answer when they fill out an evaluation about you!
Get the run down on a Japanese high school graduation ceremony, complete with tips and cultural tidbits.
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