February, 2007

Re-organizing or re-structuring of teachers' ways of routines is a must. What we have achieved so far is owing to the increase of our invested working hours.
We develop ourselves situationally. The situational human development is the key to understand and improve the way teachers train themselves. The facilitation of teachers' training needs appropriate allocation of their jobs.
The low compliance is what is needed in educational society, especially in public schools, where bureaucracy is culturally still in hegemony. The low compliance includes, logically and practically, the manual compliance.
The lecture by Mr Eiji Saito taught us the importance of embedding English sentences, or the structures of English sentences, into our minds. That enables us to reproduce or utter accurate English sentences at will.
I should start preparing for the next school year, English education and management, or the management of English education. Here in English education, I imply the international communication in English. Many high schools have organized study tours abroad, and have certain store of teaching materials for them. How about organizing a new textbook out of the materials?
How should English classes be innovated? Or, let me put it, what contribution should I make to innovate them? According to what I have done, it must be something like to introduce authentic English discourses and texts into the classes. That is, to introduce authentic English context into them.
Every person has primitive theories to understand surroundings; such as primitive physics, primitive, chemistry, primitive psychology, primitive sociology, and so on. I am not going to talk about whether they are apriori or a posteriori. That is another question, and should be dealt with at another chance.
When students are asked to write an essay describing their "own ideas" against the idea presented, what they are supposed to do is to search for their primitive theory in the corresponding field.