School Level Group Discussions
In session five, if you are an ALT, you will be split into discussion groups depending on which level school you work at. There will be groups for ES & JHS ALTs as well as groups for SHS ALTs. Please see corresponding email to find which group you are in and to access the zoom link.
What is the purpose of this discussion?
We wanted this to be an opportunity to speak to people in similar work situations to yourself and allow people to hear different perspectives on working within either JHS or SHS. This could be from the perspective of someone who has worked here for 7 years to even someone who has only been here for a few months. We have all had to adapt over the last year, whether it be through the introduction of more technology in the classroom to working around Corona, and hearing the perspective of other people might be what you need in order to kickstart some of your creativeness back into your classroom.
Like the melting pot discussions, we have tried to structure this through set questions which will hopefully enable the conversation to stay at a consistent pace but allow people to expand on what they are talking about if need be. We suggest that groups struggling to figure out who should start go in alphabetical order, or go with the person with the most years on JET, and work your way down. Once again, this is not a platform to rant for the whole time but rather talk about the lows but more importantly the highs and hopefully you can get a better idea of what other people are going through at the same time as you!
Talk about all things school related:Â
- What new thing is working well in school?
- Do you participate in school clubs?
- What activities/lesson themes have been good?
- Win moments/Funny lesson stories
- How do you manage working at many schools?
- Spicing up lessons with technology
- How have you built or improved your relationships with JTEs?
- How have you built relationships with other teachers outside of your English department?