Students give advice on how to study English

This is from pinch hitter. Hey! I'm PINCH HITTER! I made an original brochure for those who want to study English with us. If you are interested in
・English
・English education
・English grammar
・American literature
・British litarature etc.

why don't you see my brochure?

こんにちは。 私は日本のある大学生のPINCH HITTERといいます。
私の通っている大学で大学祭があり、高校生対象の説明会でオリジナルのパンフレットをつくりました。 （こんなあなたにおすすめです）
・英語が好きなあなた！
・英語教育に興味のあるあなた！
・英語の文法が得意なあなた！
・アメリカ文学やイギリス文学に興味のあるあなた！
・英語ぺらぺらになりたいあなた！
・先生になりたいあなた！
・英語マニアのあなた！
・苦手な英語を克服したいあなた！
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Our Strengths and Weaknesses as English Teachers

In our final lesson, we met in the Iwate University Sculpture Garden and students shared lesson plans they had made based on a page of a junior high school English text book called New Horizon.
First, we met in the middle of the sculpture garden. Students made pairs and walked around the sculpture garden talking about each other's lesson plans. After 15 minutes, everyone returned to the center of the sculpture garden and we made new pairs. The pairs walked around the garden for another 15 minutes comparing lesson plans. The point of this excercise was for us to receive feedback on our lesson plans and also get ideas from our classmates. Students will begin their teaching practicum in 2 weeks!
After this exercise, I asked students to write about their strengths and weaknesses as language teachers. Here are the students who have written about the topic:
Happy Days
Elle
John Wang
Cheesecake
Leo
Eringo
Lion
Mibora
Mihotch
Nyanmage
Onchan
Fantasista
74Napochi
Maruchan - Part 1
Maruchan - Part 2
Gakusei
Minesuke

ETM3 Students' Experience with Group Work

I asked ETM 3 students to write about the following:

Please describe an experience you had either as a student or a teacher where you tried a groupwork or pairwork activitiy and it did not go well. What went wrong with the activity and how could it have been changed to make it work?

Here are the students' responses:
Minesuke
Pinch Hitter
Chocolate Ice Cream
Happy Days
Elle
Cheesecake
John Wang
Eringo
Mibora
Mihotch
Onchan
RIP
Napoti
Gakusei

ETM 3 Blogs about Teaching Grammar

I gave ETM3 students a list of all the grammar taught in Japanese junior high schools and asked them to write about which grammatical element on the list was most difficult for them to learn and how would they teach it. Below I have listed the names of the students and grammar that the students wrote about:

Happy Days: Relative Pronouns
Cheesecake: Present Perfect Tense
John Wang: Present Perfect Continuous
Eringo: Present Perfect
Patapata: Present Perfect Tense
Shota: Indirect Interrogatives
ELLE: Relative Pronouns
RIP:
Relative Pronouns

Visiting Mr. M's School

A few weeks ago Mr. M, an English teacher in Morioka, came to our class and gave us some general advice about how to teach in a junior high school. Students of ETM3 highlighted the important parts of Mr. M's presentation in their blogs and used the information to give advice to ALTs or university students who were about to begin work at a junior high school (see the previous post). Last week, we went to Mr. M's school and observed some classes. ETM 3 learners wrote about what they observed and how the priniciples Mr. M talked about were evident in the English classes at his school. Below are the posts of students who wrote about going to Mr. M's school:

Lion
Mihotch
Napochi
Pinch Hitter
Yuyanikki
Minesuke
Yoshie hb

ETM3 Students give advice to people planning to work in Japanese Junior High Schools

Last week, Mr. M, an English teacher from a junior high school in Morioka, came to our class and talked to us about working as an English teacher in a Junior High School in Japan. From this lecture we were able to get a lot of good ideas about the challenges of teaching English and how to interact with students. We also learned a lot about the working life of a junir high school student. I asked ETM3 students to write a post in their blogs and give advice to prospective English teachers or ALTs in a Japanese junior high school. I asked them to base their advice on Mr. M's lecture and their own knowledge. We have already had a number of students write posts and I will attach the links of students who have written posts as the posts come in.

Happy Days
Cheesecake
Jimbo
Eringo
Lion
74Napotchi
Gakusei
Minesuke
Pinch Hitter
John Wang
Riverdance
Mihotch
Nyanmage
Fantasista
Elle
RIP
Head Banger
Leo
Patapata
On-chan
Monchichi
Eri-chan
Amemane
Chocolate Ice Cream
There will be more links soon!

ETM3 Students Blog about their Futures and Issues they Face in the Present

Last week, I asked students in ETM3 to write about whatever was on their minds. One popular theme was "What should I do in the future?"
Cheesecake is thinking about becoming a Kindergarten Teacher while Eringo writes that the more she learns the more confused she becomes about what she wants to be! Mitoch writes that in the future she wants to use English for her work. To be honest, I (JH) used to think that I wanted to use Japanese some day for my work, and not I am!
74napochi wrote two very interesting posts. One about how her life has changed as a university student and another about her dreams and the harsh reality of life.

There were also a lot of ETM3 students who wrote candidly about the anxiety they were feeling about their 1 month long teaching practice starting in September. Lion wrote about her frame of mind as she prepares to English at a junior high school. Happy Days asks for advice about how she should prepare for her teaching practice at an elementary school. She says that although she has experience teaching English, elementary school teachers have to be able to teach all subjects!

Some students blogged about their teaching experiences: Pinch Hitter talks about his experience working with a Brazilian ALT and Happy Days talks about her experience as a volunteer at a nursing home to fulfill a requirement for her teacher's license.

Lastly, Gakusei blogs about the best way to translate "seisyun" into English.

Gov't panel wants unmotivated students to forgo teacher-training

There is a movement to have universities prevent unmotivated students from doing teacher training because they cause trouble.
Do you think this is a problem?
Here is the link below:
http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/375649