Reunion

I used to live in London and worked as a Japanese teacher. I had an appointment to meet my friend who is also Japanese teacher in this holiday. She is still working in London. When I met her, she suggested to me to come to a sup rise party which was held by the students. My friend didn't know which students would come to the party. When we met in Piccadilly Circus and I met 2 ex students. One of my student who is sitting next to me in the photo is working in Tokyo now. He came back to London for a holiday. The parson sitting in front left in the picture was my first student. I didn't expect to meet any of my ex students during this holiday so it was quite exciting. We hadn't seen each other for few years, but we are still good friends.

Homework

I started teaching Japanese 2 months ago. My students have learnt Hiragana and they can write some sentences. They are very keen on studying Japanese so it is very easy for me to teaching them. Even if one of the students can't make a lesson because of a business trip or work, the rest of students try to explain what they learnt before the next class. They also pass on handout and homework.

Even if a student doesn't make it to the previous lesson, they try to do homework. I am very impressed that the students help each other very well so that nobody drops out.

I will take a month's holiday in July. My school asked them if they want to keep studying with another teacher while I am away, but they decided to wait and take next term when I come back.

Japanese Teacher

I will start teaching again from tomorrow!!!
I found a language school and submitted my resume. The owner contacted me and I had an interview. She told me that the school didn't have any students at present. Anyway, she offered to let me observe a level 1 Spanish class.

It was great! The teacher spoke Spanish all the time. Of course,the students didn't understand so she translated into English a little for the first half (45min).
However, they practiced introducing themselves, reading numbers and role played. The role playing was a really good activity. The teacher gave them a paper which had 10 telephone numbers. Each student read their numbers out and the other students had to write them down.
The students concentrated on speaking and writing. I enjoyed observing and learnt a lot from the lesson. When I was in the lesson, I could see the lesson from the student's side. I have been studying Spanish by myself for a long time so the lesson was very enjoyable to me.

After that, the owner e-mailed me to say she had 4 students. She asked me if I can teach on Thursday nights. Normally, I have a Pilates lesson, but I accepted. I will teach them once a week for 6 weeks. Yes, I am always nervous before teaching a lesson.

I will teach them Japanese by direct method and I want to make the lessons enjoyable
Also, I will try to make the students speak for 80% of the lesson. ( This is quite tough, but it is possible!)