Monday, July 16, 2007

How is your school?

Let us know how you are back home in your school! It is Monday morning, and I am going to my new school to prepare this morning. I am taking my ideas from the institute with me. What is one idea you hope to use in the coming months? Aloha, Carole
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2 comments:

mouseie said...

I have arrived home safely. I already miss everyone. This was the most awesome conference I have ever attended!!! Everyone needs to put up their pix. I want to read the Mel Levine website some more. Can't think about school yet.

July 16, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Mary said...

I completely agree. I've never been with such a fantastic group of people. I got back safely despite typhoons and earthquakes and even got an upgrade to business class!

I'm right back in the thick of things with regular classes and some extras, too. I've already been able to put some ideas into practice and, as a result, I had really great classes today with the 5th graders singing a song I wrote for them, illustrating it and then adding speech bubbles to the drawings. They managed to use almost all the language we have studied since April. One student even demonstrated to me how she had learned to play the last song on the piano. This really confirmed to me how important integrated learning is. Tomorow I will try out my Roald Dahl class with the 6th graders.

One of my colleagues, non-Japanese, just suggested at a meeting that we should take into account teenage sleep needs etc. when deciding on timetables and was looked at as if he was from another planet!! Not much hope of introducing those ideas here!
Mary

July 18, 2007 at 2:41 AM

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