Teaching credentials!
Can't teach until you're certified!
Why don’t they bring that exchange student in there and have him (or her) see what can be worked out between them. I bet they’ll be gabbing pretty well, even if in atrocious English and Japanese, within a couple of months.
How government grows and grows! The massively expanding field of "Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc" -- TESOL -- Global Education Association.
So stupid.
With today’s technology, remote learning.
So?...Rather than hire an uncertified person who actually speaks Japanese, the school provides a totally incompetent “teacher” who doesn't speak any Japanese.
Welcome to Obamacare!
If anyone wants to know how bloated and incompetent our health care will be under government ownership, one only needs to glance over at our government schools.
It could be worse. With me, I'd be feeding you a steady diet of the old Godzilla movies...
Oooooi. Ano kurasu oshieru yo!
Why not have the janitor teach nuclear physics?
Oh I know why. Because the janitor doesn’t have an “education degree”.
Government schools. What a joke.
I like this kid. I don't get the impression that a trophy for completing the class and a "learning collage" would help Kayla to feel better about an empty class. She's learned the important lesson that self-esteem comes from accomplishment.
And prospects wonder why I am not interested in their “paper” when they apply for a job.
What value are these creds if you can’t speak word one on Japanese??
Maternity leave from August to April? Wow! What’s up with that?
The reasons for that are buried deep in American history, but what it amounts to is that AFTER the Japanese-Americans were released from the government's camps they sought to more fully assimilate their children so that this was less likely to happen to them in the future.
So, nobody taught their kids Japanese language. A few did, but the overwhelming majority didn't.
Even the ladies brought back by GIs from the Orient didn't teach the kids Japanese either. The few Japanese immigrants or long term business representatives here didn't get into the teaching of Japanese. Japanese Americans in Hawaii may well have let their kids learn the local Creoles but they made sure they used English as their FIRST and ONLY language for purposes of education.
By the time you get through the years where the Ise are mostly gone and the Neisei have taken over and dominated JA culture, that third generation ~ and even moreso with the fourth and fifth generation ~ flocked to the professions of accounting, law, medicine, architecture, and to the arts. Japanese American artists and musicians abound in America and live in every city and town.
Those folks don't become Japanese language teachers, or even teachers!
Credentials aren't a problem ~
You can buy a full set of Pimsleur, Japanese language CDs for $470, and the class could listen to them together. They could get rid of the “teacher” and save tons of money.
I quit teaching due to a stupid certification issue. Basically, they wanted me to take four courses that had absolutely nothing to do with what I was teaching in the classroom. I taught electronics and one of the first computer / networking repair courses in the State of Florida (1993) at a vocational school (technical center). After six years of teaching (won rookie teacher of the year the first year), several awards, received 100s of thousands in grant money, and my course copied throughout the state, I quit. I also had the highest job placement and the most successful students. I simply refused to take a History of Vocational Education course after the first three courses were a total joke. They told me, it is my way or the hi-way. I took the hi-way.
If she cant converse with the exchange student, then what did she learn in Japanese I and II?????
I’m sure it’s sooooo hard finding a Japanese speaker in California.
Oh, wait... union rules.
The students used to refer to the school as “Jokemont” when I lived out there. I see things haven’t changed much.
She told me that her students didn't actually speak, read or write the Latin language, rather they spent the class time absorbing Roman culture through movies and pictures.
I wonder what an "A" in that class really meant.