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boogalooper
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 Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:34 am |
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JET results just came out a week or so ago. While I'm thinking about it, anyone get in? Anyone even apply?
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boogalooper
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:21 am |
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| Isfet wrote: |
as a teacher, i have a moderate amount of trouble understanding how one could really teach or manage a classroom with such a huge language barrier. supposedly the students "know English" by then, but i've heard that's bull.
and the one video i saw of an instructor doing a JET-like thing...the class seemed chaotic beyond belief. |
It's called TFL! It's not really that difficult, to be honest, though maybe I'm lucky because I was able to get training in it back in college. I've done it both with assorted (mostly mexican and korean) students in Detroit and now JET. Kids gotta pay attention or suffer the consequences, just like any other subject. Also, with most foreign-based EFL classroom situations (as opposed to LCC or something), you generally have a native teacher lurking around anyways, in case something gets out of hand, which pretty much never happens. Probably the only real difference is that classroom rythm is paramount; you lose the rythm of a class and that is when trouble might brew. True in any class, but definitely true in TFL classes.
Given, every class is different, and some teachers are definitely better at it than others: one my the Japanese Teachers of English at my school, a pretty nice guy, has a (seemingly) much more difficult time than me keeping his class focused because he has no sense of rythm and just sort of bounces around, which frusterates the students, which then frusterates him. It's really a strokes and folks situation.
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boogalooper
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:34 am |
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| sam wrote: |
| man i can honestly say i'm super-happy i ended up not doing the JET thing. |
Yo dude, right on! Glad you are liking your digs in Osaka. It's a pretty great city, I reckon. Next time I head down in that direction, I'll definitely be hitting you up for directions and shit to do, if not for drinks and fucking rad parties.
Myself, I decided to stay on to JET for another year. The town is great, the people are cool, even if literally 58% of the population of the town is over 65 years old (not exagerration), I was offered an official position as an assistant coach for the basketball team, and a ton of other reasons. I completely comprehend why this life wouldn't be for a lot of people coming to japan (regular 9-5 hours, living in the countryside, lack of access to things like arcades, clubs, a thriving youth scene, many other things), but it's a pretty great life and I am coming away with a lot of outrageous stories.
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