Blogging Task 11 (Optional)

Today we had AK, an English teacher from a high school in Mizusawa and NU, an English teacher from a Junior High School in Morioka give demonstration task-based English lessons and speak about English teaching in general. Please write what you learned about teaching from watching their lesson and the discussion you had with them. If you write in your blog, I will add a link to your post below:
Students who wrote about NU's class:
Karuha
Kanage
Nakki

Students who wrote about AK's class:
Jaguar

Blogging Task 10: Reading Activities

Today we saw 4 micro teaching lessons. The teachers and their reading topics are given below. I would like the teachers to write in their blogs by Monday, July 23 and the students to write a comments in the teacher's blogs by Wednesday, July 25.

Teachers: I would like you to write about the following:

• What were the objectives of your pre-reading and in-reading activities. Were you successful in attaining those objectives?
• What were the strengths and weaknesses of your mini-lesson?
• Did you make any discoveries about teaching, if so, what?

Students: I would like you to react to what the teachers wrote.

Here is a list of the teachers and their lessons:

1. Nabeso and Kanage: Eating in a Japanese Restaurant
2. Naojin and Micchi: Can anyone hear me?
3. Buchan and Nakki: Carson, Rachel Louise
4. Jasmine and Ambition: Try to be the only one

Blogging Task 9: Commenting on

Today, we saw three micro teaching presentations from the following pairs. They will write a comment in their blogs by Monday, July 9. I would like you to write a comments on their blogs about the strong points and weak points of their presentation and practice. Please write a comment on their blogs by Wednesday, July 11.

Knight's Night & Satomin Structure: I use a computer to watch you tube.

Noriharu & Misato Structure: Makkenji is a teacher who wrote a famous book.

Mayuchan & Chiita Structure: What is he doing?

Scarlet & Manning Structure: Manning finished studying for the test.

Blogging Task 8: Giving advice to Prospective Teachers or ALTs

In your blogs, please write a post for people who do not know Japanese schools but will be working in a Junior High School. The people who you are writing to can either be a teacher trainee (kyouiku jisshuusei), an ALT or any other kind of group you can think of!
In your post, based on Mr. M's lecture and your own experience as a student or teacher, give your readers information you think they will need to be a successful teacher in a Japanese Junior High School.
Last year in my own blog, I wrote a message to ALTs based on Mr. M's lecture and my own experience. Please have a look at the post and you can write our post in a similar style if you wish.

The due date is Wednesday, July 6, 12:23AM.

Here is a list of people who have written in their blogs as of June 25:
Buchan
Emiko
Genzai-Shin
Hikkun
Jasmine
Kanage
Karuha
Keichan
Kiki
Manning
Mayuchan
Micchan
Misato
Micchi
Moomin
Nakki
Nabeso
Naojin
Otokojyuku
Pizza
Radish
Rozen
Satomin
Wakame

Task 7: Comment on our "Grammar" Teacher's Blogs

Today, June 14, we participated in three mini grammar lessons. Each teacher will write a reflection of their lesson on their blogs by June, 18 7PM. Please write a comment on each of the blogs of the teachers. When you write a comment, please consider the following: Did the teachers successfully teach the form, meaning and use of their target structures? What were the strong points and weak points of their lessons. The blogs of the teachers and the structures they taught are below:
1) Radish & Wakame: Do you ~?
2) Moomin-Satona & Jaguar: ~ because ~ .
3) Hikkun & Genzai-Shin: noun + infinitive construction (work to do, food to eat)

Task 6: Write your comments on the Vocabulary Teaching Lesson

Today, Rozen and Micchan as well as Keichan and Otokojuku will do a ten minute vocabulary teaching mini-lesson. They will write a relfection in their blogs by Monday, June 4. Please write a comment on their blogs by Wednesday, June 6, 10PM.
I would like Rozen, Micchan, Keichan, and Otokojuku to write the following headings in their post:

1. What we did for our lesson:
2. What our students did during our lesson.
3. The strenghts and weaknesses of our lesson.

Blogging Task 5: Microteaching: Conducting Communicative Activities

Today, Emiko, Karuha, Kiki and Pizza conducted improved versions of the communicative activities I presented two weeks ago.

By Monday, May 28, they will reflect on the communicative activities they conducted in ETM3 on their blogs. I would like them to explain
1) what kind of language they tried to review
2) what the objectives of their activity were
3) what new things they discovered about conducting communicative activities
4) their overall reflection of their experience.

You can read their blogs by clicking on their names. You can see the original activity they tried to improve upon by clicking the "old version" link next to each activity.

Emiko: Using Movement <old version>
Karuha: Information Gap Card A Card B>
Kiki: Interview Activity <old version>
Pizza: Karuta <old version>

Emiko, Karuha, Kiki and Pizza to write a reflection on their blogs by Monday, May 28 and everyone else in ETM 3 will comment on their blogs by Wednesday, May 30.