Wednesday, lovely Wednesday

Today, I taught only one class at Meisei but managed to be there from 9:30am to 5pm.

I got a lot done, including cleaning out my office, putting up a mirror (yes, I'm vain), sorting out a grading system for my 1a class and having a meeting with Declan about the syllabus for the IIc class. Also, the DVDs I ordered back in December arrived - so exciting! Now the DVD library will be up-to-date. I hope to use some of the DVDs in my classes.

I also had a good meeting with Tim about next year's 1b class - we worked out what would be good to use in the lowest level class (the focus is reading and writing, but we decided a four-skills approach was more appropriate). The students are almost absolute beginners, some being unable to read English properly, so it will be a challenge to teach..I'm looking forward to it!

I will have all the students buy a folder which will be kept in the classroom (no more excuses about forgotten sheets, etc) and become their writing portfolio. I will also do grammar worksheets out of the 100 yen grammar books, get them to buy a dictionary if their phone dictionary doesn't work, and do a few more, well, exciting things - graded readers, DVDs etc etc.