Stickers for Classroom Use

Posted on Monday, February 18th, 2008 | No Comments

Personalized stickers now available from Thailand! Impress your friends! Confuse your enemies! Make your students’ day!

Full Sticker List

Posted on Monday, February 18th, 2008 | No Comments

Stickers are available for sale! Below is the full list of the styles you may choose from. Note: Perhaps its better to pick via the Facebook Group and use the reference number provided.

Top 10 Places To Teach English

Posted on Saturday, January 12th, 2008 | No Comments

According to The Traveler’s Notebook, Japan comes in at number six in the top ten places to teach English abroad.
I would have expected Japan to come in a little higher, but with the sorry state of non-JET teaching jobs, particularly the recent debacle at NOVA, it’s not that surprising.
There are some interesting locations on […]

Katakana “English”

Posted on Saturday, December 15th, 2007 | No Comments

The following essay was written by Kim Austin and won an honorable mention for the 2004 JET Program Essay Competition. It also appeared in the September 2004 edition of The Tombo Times.
Before I begin this essay I would like to make a brief disclaimer. The topic of my essay is ‘foreign language education,’ but […]

An Example Lesson

Posted on Friday, October 19th, 2007 | No Comments

This example lesson is for an eikaiwa class 2 hours, once per week. The lesson can easily be shortened for standard 50 minute classes and age appropriate material inserted.
Riddle (10 min)
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Arrive 10 minutes before class and write a riddle on the board. Give the class until 10 minutes into class […]