Posts Tagged ‘high school’

Long Ago Lessons in a Japanese High School

Jun 16th, 2010

Part of the series: Lessons Learned from Students Back with the ink was barely dry on my MATESOL, I had a group of students from whom I learned many, many lessons. This post is about three of those lessons… The setting: A once-a-week English class at a high school in Japan, in the mid 1980s. [...]

Teaching High School in Croatia (by Arjana Blazic)

Mar 5th, 2010

by ArjanaBlazic.

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To teach is to touch a life forever. I have been trying to enhance my teaching with the new technologies since 1997 when I created my first web page while attending a seminar on New Technologies in Modern Language Teaching in Finland. But everything I did over those twelve years was nothing compared to what [...]

Teaching English at a Japanese Academic High School (by Tomo Wakui)

Nov 25th, 2009

by Barbara.

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Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL My teaching History Hello. My name is Tomoe Wakui. Please call me Tomo. I am a high school English teacher in Niigata, Japan. I am very happy to have this opportunity to introduce myself here in Teaching Village. Let me explain my teaching history [...]

I’ll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours (by Steven Herder)

Oct 11th, 2009

by StevenHerder.

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Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL Committed to learning After 20 years in the EFL classroom, I still learn new things all the time. Certainly, here in Japan, the students are completely different than they were back in 1989; in those days, they all sat up straight, had their hair [...]