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shmooj
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Location: Seoul, ROK
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| Thanks for taking him on Liz, you did your caring colleagues proud! |
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Mr. Ishihara
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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I always cared about the students. But not all of them
were there primarily for English study. |
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ScottishMike
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| shmooj wrote: |
My eikaiwa:
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Shmooj..
Your eikaiwa sounds grand! Any jobs going? 
Only half a joke!
"swings and roundabouts eh? Same anywhere I guess. Get this though, on the etj link I gave earlier, I saw an eikaiwa in Kobe offering 4,200,000 a year for 15 classes a week. Sounds more like the remuneration you get from a university not an eikaiwa""
Or I could go for the money! where was this?
I think a lot of the big eikaiwa don`t care if you care about your students. They havent really figured out that its more profitable to have happy students that will study long term than signing up everyone for huge bucks at the start.
I`m all for a business/school making a profit, but I think that it will do so naturally, if the students are developing.
About me.. I`ll admit I came over here not for teaching, but to see Japan. I have no prior teaching experience, but since I arrived, I`ve studied. I care about my students - at least the ones that care about their studies.
I want to further my career, study for certificates, but I don`t know where to start. Any tips?
". What is "challenging" me though is a lack of colleagues who I can parley with on aspects of teaching. All the other teachers here either have minimal or no TEFL qualifcations/experience. Kind of lonely actually...."
Gimme a chance! I`ll be right there! |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| shmooj wrote: |
1. I want to further my career, study for certificates, but I don`t know where to start. Any tips?
2. What is "challenging" me though is a lack of colleagues who I can parley with on aspects of teaching. All the other teachers here either have minimal or no TEFL qualifcations/experience. Kind of lonely actually...."
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1. Language resources in Kobe offers a 12 week CELTA course- recommended.
SIT runs a CELTA program every year in Kyoto.
Temple university runs a Masters in TESOL program in Osaka. http://www.tuj.ac.jp
I have leads and links to distance learning Masters degrees and graduate TEFL diplomas
http://www.teachinginjapan.com/continuinged.html
2. No one to talk to? Start going to JALT meetings (Kobe has an active chapter) and get involved.
http://jalt.org
I am in Kyoto and we have an email subscriber list with about 60 members on it that can post messages and questions and shoot the breeze on anything pedagogic or TEFL-ly.
Go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kansailct/ |
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ScottishMike
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| ScottishMike wrote: |
| shmooj wrote: |
2. What is "challenging" me though is a lack of colleagues who I can parley with on aspects of teaching. All the other teachers here either have minimal or no TEFL qualifcations/experience. Kind of lonely actually...."
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2. No one to talk to? Start going to JALT meetings (Kobe has an active chapter) and get involved.
Actually that quote was a quote from shmooj that I was replying to. Having said that I`ll be checking out your links.
Thanks!
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ScottishMike
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| PAULH wrote: |
1. Language resources in Kobe offers a 12 week CELTA course- recommended.
SIT runs a CELTA program every year in Kyoto.
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Where can I find links to these?
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rockwolf
Joined: 02 Jul 2003
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Location: Takamatsu, Shikoku
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I adore my students.
I teach at 3 different kindergartens, have a variety of private lessons with ages from 2 - 70. I've got a pair of sisters on Saturday that are my absolute favorite students, and I do my best to challenge them every lesson, and they do great too.
I've resurrected the old game of 'hangman' that I used to play as a young kid, and use that for spelling and reading practice. Megumi, one of the sisters, actually beat me yesterday! She got all the words I challenged her with, and then I had her take the drivers seat, and try as I might, she actually stumped me on a word. Believe it or not, that word she stumped me on was: TEACHER.
heh.
There's only one student that I have problems with, because of behaviour problems, and incompatability with the other student he is paired with, but I've found ways to get even him involved in lessons. I'm hardly a great teacher, and I don't do that much preparation for lessons other than drawing new flash cards for the KG students, and buying stickers/candy as rewards/bribes for good/problem students.
You'd be surprised how far a 100 yen bag of candy goes to ensure an enjoyable lesson with troublesome kids. It's like dangling a bag of rocks in front of a crackheads nose and saying, "if you're good, you get the goods."
Does that make me a bad teacher? Maybe, but I see the problem kids advancing really fast and learning a lot, and all it costs me is a little bit of candy that I would have eaten myself if I didn't give it to them after the lesson.
Yeah, I've rambled on long enough.
I've only been here 2 months, but I still love my job, and look forward to the work week. The weekend seems to take forever, whereas Saturday comes and goes before I realized that it's been 5 days. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 11:09 am Post subject: |
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I havent found a webpage for Language Resources but they usually have an ad and phone number in the Kansai Time Out.
Dont know much about the Kobe CELTA except that its extremely intensive, lots of coursework and not for the fainthearted.
Kyoto SIT CELTA is run by the school of international training in Vermont which is internationally recognised. i havent done it myself but want to but cant find the time. here is the link.
http://homepage.mac.com/tesolkyoto/
FWIW I am one of two moderators on the Kansai LCT link. You will need a yahoo address if you want to download files |
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ScottishMike
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| PAULH wrote: |
FWIW I am one of two moderators on the Kansai LCT link. You will need a yahoo address if you want to download files |
Thanks
Just joined it. Yahoo addy and all.
But trying not to leave a big trail, so I dont post email addresses everywhere...  |
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shmooj
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: Seoul, ROK
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| PAULH wrote: |
| No one to talk to? Start going to JALT meetings (Kobe has an active chapter) and get involved |
Kobe's a bit far for me 
I was involved heavily in JALT for the first two years I was here. In those days it was pretty much useless for anyone teaching younger than Jr High. Hardly anyone was in eikaiwa. I've heard it's improved since after a recent cardiac arrest, but once bitten...
Where JALT failed ETJ have come up trumps. I have been a member of ETJ since it started. The Nagoya chapter is very active. Again, I was involved until I pulled out recently due to my leaving soon.
When I commented on the job being lonely, I meant not in the local EFL community but actually at my own place of work. Nothing that can be done about that if the owner is not intent on hiring people with like experience and qualifications and he isn't. Never mind... |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="ScottishMike
Just joined it. Yahoo addy and all.
But trying not to leave a big trail, so I dont post email addresses everywhere... [/quote]
BTW I post a lot of local uni and high school jobs on there from time to time if you are looking. Lots of grapevine stuff so keep watching.
PS no one will know your email address on that page- mails are sent to you automatically when people post to the board. |
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