English Teaching in Japan

English Teaching in Japan 76-Lots To Do

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:34:24 PDT

In this Video Episode of English Teaching in Japan I talk about my teaching schedule, projects that I'm working on, and other things.

Congratulations to listeners Kimberly Fergusson and Joe Kester on being selected for 2010 JET Program!

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English Teaching in Japan 75-Transition Time

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:43:53 PDT

In this Video Episode of English Teaching in Japan I talk about what I'm doing during the short transition between the ending and the beginning of the school year.

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English Teaching in Japan 74-Joe in Japan's Exchange and CIR Quest

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:22:07 PST

In this episode I talk with Joe Kester about his year in Japan as an exchange student at Hirosaki University in Aomori Prefecture and his quest to be a CIR (Coordinator of International Relations) on the JET Program.

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English Teaching in Japan 73-Exchange Studetnt Returns Part 3

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:13:00 PST

This is the 3rd and final part of a special video episode of English Teaching in Japan I welcome Steven "the exchange student" back to Japan and our school. It has been 5 years since he returned to Australia. Find out what he's been up to.

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English Teaching in Japan 73-Exchange Studetnt Returns Part 2

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:54:33 PST

This is Part 2 of a special video episode of English Teaching in Japan I welcome Steven "the exchange student" back to Japan and our school. It has been 5 years since he returned to Australia. Find out what he's been up to.

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English Teaching in Japan 73-Exchange Student Returns Part 1

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:09:36 PST

In this special video episode of English Teaching in Japan I welcome Steven "the exchange student" back to Japan and our school. It has been 5 years since he returned to Australia. Find out what he's been up to.

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Wise Words Wednesday-Create, Cultivate, Be Kind

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:15:29 PST

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
-- Author Unknown

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
-- Author Unknown

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
-- Mother Teresa

English Teaching in Japan 72-Interview for JET 2010

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:52:07 PST

It's time once again for the JET Program Interviews.

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English Teaching in Japan 71-Final Term

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:03:12 PST

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Shownotes

-intro

-preparing students for University
interviews and essays

-Shizuoka Ken Skit Contest
preparation
1st Place 6 out of 7 years

-Trip to England
しゅうがくりょこ
London, Oxford University

-Final School term
3 がき
getting students into University
entrance exams
new jr. high
aging society. struggle to find students
graduation

-JET Program
application in December
interview selections
lots of good information on the forums

-New Things
ETiJpodcat forum link
New email address EnglishTeachinJapan@gmail.com
New Twitter Page @ETiJPodcast
ETiJ Podcast Facebook group

-Final Words
Don’t be afraid to share
Be good to yourself and others
Peace

English Teaching in Japan 70-Australian Adventure

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:38:56 PDT

In this episode I show a video I made from our 2 week trip to Australia.

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Wise Words Wednesday-Lead the Way

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:44:34 PDT

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

English Teaching in Japan 69-What's in the Pipeline

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:08:38 PDT

In this episode I talk about what I will be doing in the next few weeks and projects that I have in the pipeline.

If you are coming to Japan on the 2009 JET Program please take a look at the JET Program section on the Forum and let us know where you have been placed.

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Wise Words Wednesday-Plant, Learn, Encourage

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:13:25 PDT

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.

-Linda Conway

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

-Frank Smith

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.

-Anatole France

English Teaching in Japan 68-School Festival Video

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:25:50 PDT

In this episode I show a video of our school festival.

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English Teaching in Japan 67-After Bunkasai

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:40:38 PDT

In this episode I talk about 文化祭 bunkasai and show another clip from our class movie.

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Wise Words Wednesday-Teaching and Teachers

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:41:27 PDT

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers."

-Josef Albers

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

-Dan Rather

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

-Author Unknown

English Teaching in Japan 66-Short and Sweet

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:26:25 PDT

In this episode I show another clip from the movie my students are working on.

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English Teaching in Japan 65-Update and Moive

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:30:56 PDT

In this episode I talk about the new school year and show a clip of a movie my students and I are working on for our 文化祭 bunkasai.

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English Teaching in Japan 64-JET Program Interview

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:27:19 PST

In this episode I talk about what's been happening around school and about the JET Program Interview.

Take a look at the JET Program section on the Forum.

Also take a listen to English Teaching in Japan Episode 51 where I interview my friend Sean who used to do interviews for JETs in New Zealand.

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Happy Healthy New Year!

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:24:46 PST

Happy New Year! Thanks to everyone who follows the show. I hope we all have the healthiest, wealthiest, happiest, and most peaceful year of our lives. I'll be posting some new episodes of English Teaching in Japan very soon.

The video below has nothing to do with the new year, but if you live in a cold place it might warm you up a little.

I shot this for my students when I was back home in '07. I did a series of videos to give them a taste of my life back in the States and I also used them for class. Students had to make comments, ask questions, and answer questions about the videos as part of their summer homework.

If you're coming to Japan to teach get out and start making your own videos to use in your classes.

English Teaching in Japan 63

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:24:43 PST

In this episode I talk about all the things I've been doing since the last episode 3 months ago. University Exams, Skit Contest, Trip to London, and the Christmas Party.

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English Teaching in Japan 62-Different but the Same

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:12:53 PDT

A new season of English Teaching in Japan has begun. In this episode I talk with two exchange students from Australia that remind me a lot of two other exchange students that I had the pleasure of meeting a few years back.

Hayley and Nathan

Gocke and Steven

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Wise Words Wednesday-Experience it Yourself

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:08:51 PDT

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

-Mark Twain

With all the new teachers coming over on the JET and other programs, I hope they and their students will learn and grow much from their experiences.

English Teaching in Japan 61-Welcome New JETs

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:10:53 PDT

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Teaching in Japan Now and Then

englishteachinjapan@gmail.com (Chaz) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:44:14 PDT

I have been teaching for three hours in the Middle School,
and teaching Japanese boys turns out to be a much more agreeable task than I had imagined. Each class has been so well prepared for me beforehand by Nishida that my utter ignorance of Japanese makes no difficulty in regard to teaching: moreover, although the lads cannot understand my words always when I speak, they can understand whatever I write upon the blackboard with chalk. Most of them have already been studying English from childhood, with Japanese teachers. All are wonderfully docile' and patient. According to old custom, when the teacher enters, the whole class rises and bows to him. He returns the bow, and calls the roll.

Nishida is only too kind. He helps me in every way he possibly can, and is constantly regretting that he cannot help me more. There are, of course, some difficulties to overcome. For instance, it will take me a very, very long time to learn the names of the boys--most of which names I cannot even pronounce, with the class-roll before me. And although the names of the different classes have been painted upon the doors of their respective rooms in English letters, for the benefit of the foreign teacher, it will take me some weeks at least to become quite familiar with them. For the time being Nishida always guides me to the rooms. He also shows me the way, through long corridors, to the Normal School, and introduces me to the teacher Nakayama who is to act there as my guide.

I have been engaged to teach only four times a week at the Normal School; but I am furnished there also with a handsome desk in the teachers' apartment, and am made to feel at home almost immediately. Nakayama shows me everything of interest in the building before introducing me to my future pupils. The introduction is pleasant and novel as a school experience. I am conducted along a corridor, and ushered into a large luminous whitewashed room full of young men in dark blue military uniform. Each sits at a very small desk, sup-ported by a single leg, with three feet. At the end of the room is a platform with a high desk and a chair for the teacher. As I take my place at the desk, a voice rings out in English: 'Stand up!' And all rise with a springy movement as if moved by machinery. 'Bow down!' the same voice again commands--the voice of a young student wearing a captain's stripes upon his sleeve; and all salute me. I bow in return; we take our seats; and the lesson begins.

This was written by Lafcadio Hearn (an ALT) in his book Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan around 1894. One hundred and fourteen years later things aren't so different for a new English teachers in Japan.