September 18th 2011
I stayed home and complete to make one lesson: worksheets, activities and power point slides. I have many catch up works but one done (finally). I need to rest my brain so I have been reading this vook: Translation in Language Teaching (2010) by Guy Cook.
Tomorrow, I need to sum up a demo lesson for this Saturday at Rits. Oh boy.
September 15th and 16th
Business trop
There was a teacher training for new teachers who work at national universities. IT was my first time to have discussion with people who graduated from the University of Tokyo. That was very challenging for me to maintain conversations. I do not know why the person works at junior college with holding a MA degree from Tokyo Uni. Anyway, life is complicated as it is.
I needed some time to recover from the training. Now I feel okay.
Sep 18, 2011
Sep 2, 2011
Sep 1, 2011
Same old
To do list:
Reading these books (3)
Lesson plans and ideas for week3: Saving Pandas
Sum up about textbooks
Recommendation letter
http://www.bioling.jp/english/events/ Noam Chomsky in March, Japan.
Job hunting
making a good relationship with the new teacher
3 good things:
1) complete to make lesson plans for WK2, nice worksheet
2) managed to talk about my job with I-sensei
3) many ppl visited to see me in my office, esp had lunch with Ms.K was interesting.
Reading these books (3)
Lesson plans and ideas for week3: Saving Pandas
Sum up about textbooks
Recommendation letter
http://www.bioling.jp/english/events/ Noam Chomsky in March, Japan.
Job hunting
making a good relationship with the new teacher
3 good things:
1) complete to make lesson plans for WK2, nice worksheet
2) managed to talk about my job with I-sensei
3) many ppl visited to see me in my office, esp had lunch with Ms.K was interesting.
Aug 31, 2011
New environment
I am very nervous to see a new teacher tomorrow. I hope he is a hardworker like a Japanese one. My colleague went back to his home country due to see his friend. We will have a meeting for choosing textbooks for the next academic year without him. Talking about the text books, I need to make a summary what's good and bad to use the current textbooks.
Well well changing environment now.... ahhhhh
Aug 30, 2011
Day1: Job hunting.
Day1: Job hunting done. I took many pictures for CVs. Today's aim was to send my cvs to 2 different universities. I modified the CV and printed out them. These things were on my to do list for today. 90% done. Now I realised that it is impossible to manage the amount of salary to maintain this quality of research. I would like to buy books for my study. I would like to go to conferences and workshops. To gain knowledge and teaching techniques eventually contribute to students and the university where I have worked. However if I do not have enough or minimum financial resource, I cannot have better learning and teaching. So I have decided to find better jobs. According to the current university, they may consider to raise my monthly saraly.
My aim for these two years in this university is that to have 5 publications and 5 presentations. I have got 2 publications so far so 3 more to go. I am not so ready to move out from this university but I am getting there. Well well, I would like to change the place to teach by the end of the next academic year. These days I feel so uneasy to continue this kind of life. I sometime feel unfair to compare my workloads and the monthly salary. I am not satisfied with this salary. Someone told me that it is better than 0 yen but you know it is difficult for me to survive realistically.
Well well.....
Now, I would like to focus on making lesson plants. Week 2 ! Text analysis now.
My aim for these two years in this university is that to have 5 publications and 5 presentations. I have got 2 publications so far so 3 more to go. I am not so ready to move out from this university but I am getting there. Well well, I would like to change the place to teach by the end of the next academic year. These days I feel so uneasy to continue this kind of life. I sometime feel unfair to compare my workloads and the monthly salary. I am not satisfied with this salary. Someone told me that it is better than 0 yen but you know it is difficult for me to survive realistically.
Well well.....
Now, I would like to focus on making lesson plants. Week 2 ! Text analysis now.
Aug 29, 2011
TESOL certificate workshop in TKO.
A 5-Day TESOL certification course:
I completed the 120 hours TESOL certification lesson. Here come my assignments to read all reading materials. I am so excited to read these articles. I need to write essays in order to get the final certification.
One more thing. I would like to start my job hunting again. I have printed out my resumes and front pages already. What I need is my pictures. I can handle a few additional classes for the next year. One more year's patience and then I will be a PhD candidate. I would like to be positive in order to gain many things during my stay in Japan.
I completed the 120 hours TESOL certification lesson. Here come my assignments to read all reading materials. I am so excited to read these articles. I need to write essays in order to get the final certification.
One more thing. I would like to start my job hunting again. I have printed out my resumes and front pages already. What I need is my pictures. I can handle a few additional classes for the next year. One more year's patience and then I will be a PhD candidate. I would like to be positive in order to gain many things during my stay in Japan.
Aug 25, 2011
TESOL certificate workshop in TKO: Day2
Day2:
Dr. R D from Keimyung, Korean was one of our lecturers for TESOL certification workshops in TKO.
Before he started his lecture, he was looking for someone who is the youngest one in the room. He looked around and found me.
He asked me " I assume you are the youngest one in this room. Don't you think so? "
And I said: "you never know. I might be not."
This teacher immediately asked me that " would you please make me a coffee ? Because I did not know how to make it."
And I said, "WHAT?"
There are many things wrong with many different levels.
1) I payed to come here in order to learn how to teach but not make a coffee for him.
2) The youngest woman in the community's job is making a coffee for a professor.... is it???
3) How come he could become a prof even though he cannot make a coffee.
4) If he were a older Japanese prof who asked me to make a coffee I felt it was okay but he is THE American who treats women as お茶くみ women.... I still feel so uneasy on his value.
5) It was my first time to talk to this prof and he asked me to make a coffee for him. I felt it was very rude.
6) This incident is the gender discrimination, academic harassment and sexual harassment.
90% of the females participants in the TESOL certification workshop accused him;
They yelled at him " do you think does it related how to make a coffee and the youngest women ??" "How come you cannot make a coffee"
In conclusion, I thought that social norm in terms of females' making tea/coffee force women to make them inferior than men, which happens not only in Asian countries but also some American males.
I still cannot believe what happened to me.
Dr. R D from Keimyung, Korean was one of our lecturers for TESOL certification workshops in TKO.
Before he started his lecture, he was looking for someone who is the youngest one in the room. He looked around and found me.
He asked me " I assume you are the youngest one in this room. Don't you think so? "
And I said: "you never know. I might be not."
This teacher immediately asked me that " would you please make me a coffee ? Because I did not know how to make it."
And I said, "WHAT?"
There are many things wrong with many different levels.
1) I payed to come here in order to learn how to teach but not make a coffee for him.
2) The youngest woman in the community's job is making a coffee for a professor.... is it???
3) How come he could become a prof even though he cannot make a coffee.
4) If he were a older Japanese prof who asked me to make a coffee I felt it was okay but he is THE American who treats women as お茶くみ women.... I still feel so uneasy on his value.
5) It was my first time to talk to this prof and he asked me to make a coffee for him. I felt it was very rude.
6) This incident is the gender discrimination, academic harassment and sexual harassment.
90% of the females participants in the TESOL certification workshop accused him;
They yelled at him " do you think does it related how to make a coffee and the youngest women ??" "How come you cannot make a coffee"
In conclusion, I thought that social norm in terms of females' making tea/coffee force women to make them inferior than men, which happens not only in Asian countries but also some American males.
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