Remembering
I’m in the process of updating old posts to work with a new blog template, which has been quite a walk down memory lane. Hopefully, when I’ve finished, it will be easier for readers...
Tagged: Japan
Lessons from the Japan Earthquake (by Masatoshi Watanabe)
The Great East Japan Earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011 directly impacted people living in Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate prefectures, but it affected people all over Japan. Over a period of about a...
Teaching English at a Japanese Academic High School (by Tomo Wakui)
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...
I’ll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours (by Steven Herder)
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...
Rice in Japan and Rice Around the World (by Bob Middleton)
Bringing food topics into the language classroom is one way to stimulate language learning as well as hungry appetites. 9 and 10 year old students in the 5th grade of our elementary school in...
