{"id":3641,"date":"2013-12-07T20:16:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T11:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2013-12-07T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T11:16:20","slug":"amelia-loew-english-conversation-partner-kyoto-bunkyou-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2013\/12\/07\/amelia-loew-english-conversation-partner-kyoto-bunkyou-high-school","title":{"rendered":"Amelia Loew: English Conversation Partner-Kyoto Bunkyou High School"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my CIP, I decide that I would teach English.\u00a0 While interacting with children is not my strong suit, I wanted experience with high schoolers as I was considering applying for the JET program.\u00a0 I also thought it would be a good way to step out of my comfort zone.
\nI ended up acting as a tutor for some students learning english at the Kyoto Bunkyou High School.\u00a0 A few times a week I would go to the school and meet with a couple of high schoolers.\u00a0 Since the school was only a short subway ride out of the way it was very convenient for me.\u00a0 At first the students were a bit shy, but they slowly warmed up to me.\u00a0 Still I found that I ended up doing a lot of the talking; my throat was pretty sore by the end of the hour.\u00a0 I quickly learned that the best way to get through to the students was to ask open-ended questions.\u00a0 Once I go to know them, they were really sweet.\u00a0 Upon hearing that I liked matcha deserts, one of them bought me a special macha-chocolate cookie and a little stuffed manekineko<\/em> (lucky cat) as an omiyage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Once, I ended up speaking to an entire class of students who would soon be going to Australia.\u00a0 Though I had initially anticipated that my job would be something like this, I wasn\u2019t prepared that time and ended up simply awkwardly asking questions up in front of the board.\u00a0 I really wished I had prepared some sort of lesson plan for that time, and changed my mindset to deal with students who\u2019s english was a bit weaker than I was used to.<\/p>\n

However, as the semester went on, I found that the school had a lot more breaks and times when the students were too busy to have conversation with me.\u00a0 I would definitely recommend having a back-up plan for your CIP.\u00a0 Even if it seems to be going well at first, things can change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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