Projects–Step Two Planning the Project This is Step Two of teaching with projects–How to plan a project To sum up, my previous post, this is where you should be: You have decided your project goal. If you are doing a group project, you probably have made project groups . You have decided the topic and, …
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Apr 10
Who is your boss?
Who is your boss? Most teachers would say ‘the principal’. Or, perhaps, ‘the board of education’ or the ‘the superintendent’? No. Or, yes, in the literal sense, but no. Your boss is your students. You understand what I mean. A teacher’s goal should be to give the students the tools they need to meet their …
Mar 18
Daydreaming Is a Mind Using Its Excess Capacity
What is daydreaming? Well, that probably varies a little among individuals, but a report on Scientific American, showed that daydreaming Daydreaming is your brain putting its excess power to good use. In other words, when you daydream, your brain is staying active by daydreaming since whatever it is you are really doing is not keeping …
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 21
Teaching in Japan, Is There Grammar on the English Center Test?
Today, I want to talk about the English Center Test and grammar. If you do not know what the Center Test is, and you teach in Japan, you need to learn. There is a myth that grammar is important to do well on the Center Test. This is wrong. Students only need to …