Let me appologize for not writing on this blog for a long time. I’ve been so busy for a couple of months.
Yesterday, I participated in a “Jazz Chants Seminar”, for studying English teaching methods using Jazz rhythm. I had to give a presentation there. I showed a lesson plan using a song in one of the Jazz chants textbooks. All the participants were English teachers. And most of them were very talented teachers. Can you imagine how nervous I was during the presentation before those teachers? When I finished it, I was relieaved. But one of the lecturers pointed out several things that I have to think about more. Those points are what I also noticed wrong but didn’t know how to change. After that I felt a little blue, but just before leaving the place, another lecturer said to me “It was a wonderful presentation”. At that time I was so happy that I felt as if I were walking in the sky.
Jazz Chants was created by Carolyn Graham, an American English teacher. While she had been teaching English at University, she also worked as a Jazz singer at a Jazz bar. One day she thought that Jazz rhythm would help teaching English. Since then, she has published many Jazz Chants series.
On November 18th, I met her for the first time. She was a lecturer in the Jazz Chants seminar that is held in Osaka once a year. It was wonderful, no!, more than wonderful. I don’t know how to express my feeling in English, but anyway, I was moved.
One year and 8 monthes have passed since I started to teach English. Teaching English to kids is very encouraging. Though there are so many things that I need to learn, I want to do my best in teaching English.
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