ICT & Education

As usual we started the day early morning ,Mr Shimbo picked us up from hotel and we moved forward to Tonden Minami elementary school.We were warmly welcomed by Ms Principal Iwama and the other staff.I was surprised by the way classes start,some parents who serve as volunteers usually come at starting time and they are allowed 15 mn to do a kind of warming up to students like story retelling and some other simple activities,then we attended 5th grade English class taught by teacher Kambayashi.The aim of the lesson was to have students become familiar with "what's this?,"It's a~".Teacher Kambayashi was creative in the way she taught,many activities and games ,students interacted very well with her.She is professianal in teaching English for Japanese elementary students.After that came my turn, i taught 2nd graders,so lovely and cute students,i felt that they are my students and that i have been teaching them since a long time,then we headed toward Yamanote Minami Elementary school which lately was awarded a prestigious award for its good achievements and quality of education.After a tour around some classes we attended 6 th graders English class using Flash cards and another software Provided by ministry of education,It was so interesting,as there was not enough time we had school lunch together,Mr Shimbo again,always being kind,dropped us off at the station,we took the train to airport and we flew back to Tokyo.
The next activity was a meeting with Ms Sakurada From NHK education and young teachers ,this meeting is usaully held by teachers to ask advice from Dr Horita and disccuss problems they face in classroom.They are very motivated teachers.
We enjoyed dinner,talking to eachother,and exchange opinions and ideas.

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