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High vs Junior High vs Elementary :: Seeking Advice
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fluffyhamster



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Getting back to the general pros and cons of working in the different types of school, low in the list of factors though the following may be, subsidized lunches aren't provided in SHSs (students and teachers have to bring or go out and buy their own), but you might count that as a blessing if the thought of sitting in with elementary and especially JHS classes every lunchtime usually without fail doesn't appeal (and with elementary classes, portions can be a bit small sometimes due to the larger classes, mistakes in dishing out a consistent size of or correct number of servings etc). Choices, choices!
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Glenski



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
fluffyhamster wrote:
Glenski, I know that isn't the Monstersho manual, but is it really much different? I bet it also gathers dust or makes a good flyswat.
Dissing it before you even look at it, fluffy? Not exactly a professional approach. Give it a shot before scoffing. Or if you can wait until my final exams are over, I'd be happy to look for the other articles I collected and send you their titles.

Were you thinking there'd be an ESL Cafe poll on this or something? Wink
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fluffyhamster



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Glenski wrote:
JHS kids are eager at first.
SHS kids are bored silly and have no motivation to study English except for the entrance exams to college (and native English speakers do little to help them).


You mean that even the more able and qualified native speakers can do little (=aren't allowed to do much) to help make the subject (which has generally been very patchily if not badly taught in the years preceding) any less needlessly complicated and therefore difficult come exam time, right?

But hey, maybe those who can pass such exams will be good readers even if they'll probably never be able to confidently produce much more than the odd sentence or two.

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fluffyhamster



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Glenski wrote:
Dissing it before you even look at it, fluffy? Not exactly a professional approach. Give it a shot before scoffing. Or if you can wait until my final exams are over, I'd be happy to look for the other articles I collected and send you their titles.


To be honest, I have enough (and I'd hazard to guess, much more worthwhile) stuff to read already. Perhaps if you'd care to tell me a few things about the book that make it so indispensible (potted review, perchance?), instead of simply instructing me to somehow read it, I might care to ultimately find or order and pay good money for it, Glenski.

I obviously wouldn't have any objection though to you posting articles (links to online versions if possible would be best) for my and more importantly other people's potential edification (not that I for one don't know a thing or two about the general past and present realities of team-teaching, thank you! (And I say 'realities' even though I am apparently quite the "idealist"). "Ideally", English education, especially in Japan, continues to chug along much like it always has, no matter what the current buzzword is. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and all that (There are always babies that expect to be handled with kid gloves, sure, but what bathwater?!)).
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