How to be a succesful English Teacher at junior High School

Last Thursday, in English Teaching Methodologies class a teacher from a junior high school in Morioka, Mr. Maruhashi, came and talked to us about working at a junior high school.

At first, he asked us, "What is the first job as a teacher?"
I thought it was 'character building' because students lived in society.
He said it was changing students. That's so deep!!
In the class, that makes no sense if students can't change and understand.
In school life, students need to change everyday.

Moreover, he did a mock lesson. He took up an interrogative sentence of ' DO. '
It was so difficult for us, beginner, to think how to do lesson.
But he taught us thinking order.
At first, we wrote down what teacher wanted to teach.
After that, we sat these in order.
The way was so simple that we could use while practice teaching.

Vocabulary Teaching Lesson

Yesterday, I tried to do a vocabulary lesson.
So, I want to write about it.

First of all, I really felt that teaching and the job as teachers was so hard!!
So, it was very valuable experience for me to do the lesson, and I am deeply grateful to Mr.Hall.
Moreover, everyone acted the role of an individual student well, I could do in a real situation.
Thank you for helping my lessonヽ(・∀・)人(・∀・)ﾉ☆★


1. What we did for our lesson.
I made a guidance plan, work sheets, word cards, an aim card, and so on.
I would do my best, I think.

2. What our students did during our lesson.
Students spent a lot of time in practicing and playing a game.
The reason was that I wanted to give student much time to practice new words.
So, I tried to have student took part in my class as I could possible.
And, some students took an active part in my lesson ( Haruka, Hiroyuki, Keiko, and so on ), but others were so negative ( Mika, Shiki-san, Mayuko, Emiko, and so on).


3. The strangth and weakness of our lesson

◇The strength
・ I supported ALT and spoke Japanese effectively as Japanese English Teacher, in order that student could understand what they had to do next.
・ In word practice, as teachers hardly tought the answer, students who could answer helped other students.
・ I could see students states, expressions, and an atmosphere, I think.
・ I talked with many students in the game, and helped them.
・ As Shiki-san was a student who had a poor attitude in class, I scolded him and made him sat up straight as a teacher.

◇The weakness
・ Time of our lesson was too long.
・ I should have changed questions of new words.
・ I took a mistake for distribution of work sheets.
・ I should have had students practiced by the line.
・ I had to do more consistent lesson.

Thank you so much for reading my post to the end.
Please give me your real thinking and good advice (*￫㉨￩)ﾉ!!