Japan’s teachers are overworked. They toil away at school from early morning until late at night, and many go in on weekends too, preventing them from getting a proper rest before Monday comes round again...

A short sequence of three activities to reinforce and consolidate adverbs of frequency.

...teaching is also the understanding of interactivity, of engagement and

As teachers, we need to embrace our slime mold heritage. We need to seek more and more opportunities to feed our discoveries back into the network, and seek more and more opportunities to draw upon that network.

O-sensei was lovely. She played the piano exquisitely. Her activities ran like clockwork, and when speaking to the room, she was warm and radiated intelligence in a way that reassured us that she knew what she was doing. My son, Dana, had drawn a picture of our family that was posted on the wall. Strangely, Dana’s picture did not look like a cloud of truck exhaust fumes.

Teaching, if you are doing it right, is ALWAYS hard because learning, if you are doing it right, is ALWAYS hard. If it's not hard, then you are wasting time.

But I love my job, and I want to keep

Here is a lesson by Sarvajit Patil with contributions by

ask … a) Do I know the needs? What am I doing to determine the needs? b) What decisions have I made so far, am I making now, and do I need to make in order to connect this lesson with those needs?"

This is a nice, straight-forward Activity Module made by Kim