September, 2007

I started writing "Five Days of the Plenary Training Session for English Teachers" yesterday. It is a pair work with "Five Years of the Plenary Training Session for English Teachers." It seems I am writing about how the marketism is working in the educational community, and about the limit of its advantage and effectiveness.
Mr. Tomoyori is talking about "social market economy" and "multi-level governance." Marketism is penetrating into the education community, which has been under the hegemony of socialism.
These days, it is difficult to tell the difference between domestic and global issues. It may be either because the situation has become totally complicated, or because the situation has so totally changed that the framework I have been used to has become out of date. The bigger problem is if I myself am out of date?
I'm rewriting "Five Days of the Plenary Training Session for English Teachers". I have replaced certain pronouns with surnames, and tried to clarify some sentences.
I have finished doing a pinch-hitter acting homeroom teacher. I think I can start thinking of my transfering again. I was wondering if I should tackle CALL system (again?). The problem is if I am not too old to do that. Although to keep wrestling with entrance examinations might improve my employability, that does not appear exciting to me. International communication is most interesting to me, and the progress of ICT seems to give a help for Call system to.
I feel exhausted yet. One-day off rather revealed or uncovered my tiredness. I wonder if I can keep going this week. I'm afraid I am too sensitive these days. My sensitivity has helped see students properly, but it is a double-edged sword.
I have started exploring over CALL systems. I have contacted with Kwansei-gakuin and Mukogawa to go and see the CALL classes there. A Kwansei-gakuin's class has integrated CALL and shadowing, while Mukogawa's has applied CALL to phonemic practice of English pronunciation.
Kwansei-gakuin's reply was negative. I haven't got one from Mukogawa. My CALL-system networking has just started. I hesitate in contacting system providers. Our school has no plan to introduce one, and that makes me a kind of shy.
I got a reply from Mukogawa today. As I have no plan on November the 2nd and on the 23rd, I can visit Mukogawa on either. I have to visit Kobe-jogakuin, too. That will have all the Fridays in the second term filled with business-trip plans.
Should I have contact with CALL-system providers? Mukogawa's Adachi asked me whether I am actually using a CALL system. A story that we are considering the installation of the system might make my visits seemingly real.
I feel rather stressed after the 4 days without going to school. I'm afraid I haven't recovered from the fatigues of being an acting homeroom teacher for 11 days. That was a stress at the beginning of the term.
An adjective modifies a noun. An adverb modifies a verb or an adjective.
Seminor C has become focused in my mind these days. I did 'Get up in the morning with your problem before you. Breakfast with it. Go to the laboratory with it. Eat your lunch with it. Keep it before you after dinner. Go to bed with it in your mind. Dream about it.'
We are talking about how to have our students leave school after club activities from the next school year. As our part-time course closes at the end of this school year, we should do that by ourselves. Unless we think of new measures regime, some of the students will stay at school very late, as in Semboku. Do we have a good way? I don't know one.
Office politics is getting fierce as capturing open rooms has started. So is domestic politics as they get older still.