Hurrah! A while ago I posted about my new timetable for the next 12 months, and how I might have to work until 9pm every friday. The good news is, I don't! The class has been cancelled, to my great relief, due to low numbers of students choosing it.
In a perfect demonstration of the ridiculousness of Japanese scheduling though, "Oral Communication" (as the English course is called) is actually massively over-subscribed. While the 7.30-9.00pm class had way too few students, the 4.00-5.30pm class had a school-record number of students, 56, choosing it! Last year my combined night school classes had 8 students in, this year, 56! It has been put down to the excitement amongst the first-year students at seeing me working at the school :) But if they thought they'd get to spend time with me by all choosing the course, that plan has massively backfired. 56 is way too many for any of the classrooms, so the class will be split into 2 of 28 each, and I'll take one one week, and the other the next. Quite how we'll teach an Oral Communication course that way I have no idea. In fact I actually have no idea whatsoever, it appears a plan doomed to failure...
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3 comments:
awesome blog... very fun to read!
i'm an aspiring JET and recently have been shortlisted... randomly came across your blog...
i'm just curious to know what does an oral communication class in japan entails? i'm assuming it's a conversational English class... if so, what method is approached (ie. theory, practice, speech-related activities, etc)? how are the student's evaluated?
keep up the good work!
Be honest Steven, you wrote that last comment yourself, didnt you?
I swear I didn't. If Mr. Anonymous does want to know more about "oral communication" or anything else JET related, please email me at stevem666@hotmail.com.
Thanks for the fan-mail guys!
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