Projects–Step One Setting your Goals and Making Groups Projects that accomplish specific learning objectives, also called project-based learning, is the best way to learn. I’ve been using projects for more than 10 years now, but what if you are just starting out and want to use projects in your teaching, but you really have no …
Tag Archive: English
Jan 22
Japan Teaching, Grammar and the English Center Test, Part Two
We talked about grammar and the English Center Test in the last post. We saw that in the first section we looked at, Part 2, Section A, that what looks like grammar questions, are in fact, testing usage. They do not test grammar. Next, I will look at the only section that really requires that …
Jan 16
Teaching in High Schools in Japan–The Center Test
If you are teaching in Japan, you probably have heard of the Center Test. If you haven’t, and you are teaching anywhere in the education realm, you had better learn what it is and why it is important.The Center Test is the largest entrance exam taken in Japan. This year, it was given on Saturday …
Jan 01
Teaching in Japan–What are your goals?
I am teaching in Japan now at a high school. The classroom is each teachers temple, and teachers here are often left to their own devices. This can be great, but if you want to more than that “funny foreign person,” you need to succeed. To do that, you need to have goals and plans to achieve those goals. …