I wrote most of this as a comment to a story posted by Derek (from スミス英会話塚口), but I think I should share it with all of you too! We are very excited to be having a baby in Japan. Japan is a place I can feel safe every day, at any time of day or [...]
Adrian told me how he does the routines and I have been using his technique more and more with the students and though they complain a little at first, they also laugh and seem to have a good time. Having to start over from the beginning every time they make a small mistake makes them [...]
Living in Japan, teaching English and also using Japanese everyday, I sometimes wonder why learning English is important for Japanese people. Japanese is a rich and excellent language that is really all Japanese people need to go about their normal daily lives. Of course people have all kinds of personal reasons to learn English, but [...]
So if you are thinking about what it takes to build a school, take a look at this video. It shows an example of what I have done after taking over an existing school. The Okamoto school has been open since August 2004 and is currently operating well on the KISS principle and a lot [...]
My man-to-man student at noon on Saturdays is always so pleasant and fun to coach. She works for a major international transportation company and just got back from a visit to Shanghai. She met with her company staff there and had some very good meetings. She got back last night at 8:00 p.m. and worked [...]
Just like the great post by Alex covering the wonderful time we had with our students in April 2008 at our Cherry Blossom viewing Party, this one shows me and my students having fun at the Halloween part last year. Smith’s School of English offers so much more for students and teachers alike. If you [...]
What’s different about Smith’s School compared with the multitude of English conversation schools in Japan? Bottom to the top it’s totally different. It’s truly a breath of fresh air. No stale lesson plans, no stiff teachers looking truly uncomfortable in ties, just a down-to-earth well thought out curriculum which provides what Japanese students of English [...]
As a person who’s made the decision to do just that, let me review your options from my point of view. OK, I can work for a corporate school and earn 250,000 to 300,000 a month working about 40 hours a week. I would put on my necktie and go to work when I was [...]
That’s an important question. Many people are so busy just going through their daily life that they never stop and think about this question and whether they are achieving something or not. Yesterday, I realized that I too am one such person. Given a chance to write down a goal for myself for 1 or [...]
スミス英会話奈良西大寺校の講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら Yesterday we had our first Osaka regional franchisee seminar of 2008. It was nice to see some older familiar faces of franchisees that have been around for years and also to meet a couple of new franchisees who joined us recently by purchasing developed schools! A big welcome to: Smith’s School of English in [...]
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