7-12 year olds in Ishigaki Elementary School Marching Band prelim show in 1999. This show was about 90 days out from the Japanese Nationals. I’m trying to find and post that show. Absolutely INCREDIBLE!

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MISS SAIGON（Symphonic Band Arrangement）
1) Overture
2) My dream of the heart
3) Saigon surrender
4) Now is at this time
It is a performance in the 2007 amoto wind-instrument music competition.
Performance:Nishigoushi-minami Elementary school Symphonic Band
Kumamoto-JAPAN 25,Jul,2007

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Check out www.TeAchnology.com We got all of our teachers together and came up with the key components for a mega lesson that includes everything we learn in school and thanksgiving. Bring on the fun and get your learn on!

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Don’t you think taxpayers money would be better spent on actually educating students. Rather than renaming ceremonies and new school signs????

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**Permission granted by this shogakko for posting on my page**
Usually I’m mobbed at recess after lunch when I visit elementary schools – the kids are eager to chat or have me draw something or ask me to play a game. But today my kids were busy after lunch rehearsing for their upcoming graduation ceremony, so I took advantage of the uncommon quiet and filmed a vlog talking about teaching at elementary school 小学校　しょうがっこう。

I enjoy my elementary school visits, but I wouldn’t want to only teach at elementary school. The kids are great, but the lessons are limiting and unless you can teach with them on a very consistent basis, it’s hard to see any real progress. But that will change for me in April, when my daily schedule will include many more visits to shogakko than I’ve had in the previous school year. (more about that in a future vlog)

If you have questions about teaching at elementary school (grades 1-6, ages 7-12), then leave a comment.

And maybe if you’re all really good I’ll give you the same quiz I gave my students in a future vlog!

-Jason

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Check out www.Teachnology.com We look at Christmas project ideas for your classroom. We offer some teaching ideas you probably haven’t heard of before.

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Sitting down outside at the local sports park, I discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching at shogakko (elementary school) in Japan.

I hope to film one more vlog touching on some other important aspects of teaching at elementary, so if you have any questions related directly to teaching younger kids, then please leave a comment and I’ll address them in the next vlog on this subject.

小学校 (shougakkou) is grades 1 (１年生) ichi nen sei – thru to grade 6 (６年生) roku nen sei. So usually we’re talking about kids age 6 to 12.
This term I’m teaching 5th graders and 6th graders exclusively, as my area is trying out the newly introduced English textbook, Eigo Noto 1 and Eigo Noto 2.

Every week I visit 5 different elementary schools, in addition to my regular teaching at one of my two Jr High Schools.

I plan on doing a separate vlog about the book being used and possibly I’ll go over some of the lessons I’ve been teaching this first term so you can get an idea of what level of English we’re talking about.

By way of example, yesterday I taught two classes of 6th graders the names of the months in English.

OK – hope you enjoy this vlog and more soon.

-Jason

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www.Teachnology.com Teachers: Kick off the New Year in your classroom with these great lessons, projects, and events.

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Girl, 11, Tasered After Punching Cop
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An altercation at a Florida elementary school ended with an 11-year-old girl being tasered and sent to the hospital on Thursday.

It happened at Moss Park Elementary in Orange County.

Authorities said the altercation happened during the school’s morning announcements and both the student and the officer were injured.

The deputy shocked the student with the Taser gun after the student allegedly punched her in the face.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said the student who was shocked was trying to push another student into oncoming traffic.

Other students went to teachers to report the incident.

“There should be guidance counselors. The principal should have been there to calm the child down instead of having an officer do it,” parent Cherley Constant said.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said there were a few teachers around.

They said the 11-year-old shoved a desk and chair, started spitting at the teachers and refused to go to the principal’s office.

“She was crying. She had tears coming down her face. She was bright red,” student Taliesin Ploeg said of the girl who got shocked with a Taser gun.

The teachers called in the campus resource officer, but she said she was punched in the nose by the student.

That’s when she used her Taser gun.

“I think they should be able to restrain the child without having to Taser the child, especially at such a young age,” parent Brenda Aloiau said.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office demonstrated on a towel what it’s like to be shocked with a Taser gun, and it said a Taser gun can be used on a child if he or she poses a threat, but it also depends on his or her size.

“The policy reads that, yes, you can Tase a student, if they are aggressive and also if they’re fighting the officer. In this case, this student, it is my understanding she is approximately 5-foot-5″, which is my height, and she is approximately 160 to 170 pounds, so this is a pretty big student,” one official said.

“I think there’s a lack of discipline in the schools, and unfortunately, it’s led to a lot of problems in the public schools. Teachers aren’t allowed to touch children, but when you have a situation like this, what do you do?” parent Sarah Miller said.

School officials are not commenting on the incident.

“They didn’t say anything. I tried to find out, but nobody was talking,” one parent said.

Parents received a letter Thursday calling the use of the Taser gun a “last resort action that was taken by the school resource officer.”

The 11-year-old had to have the prongs from the Taser removed at the hospital, and she is going to be arrested and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, disrupting a school function and resisting with violence.

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We take a peek inside the bag I tote around when I visit my elementary schools.

Most of you that end up having shogakko visits will also be teaching at one or more Jr High schools, so it’s a good idea to keep the materials needed for shogakko visits separate from your JH materials.

I used a bag given to me in my first year, and I add/subtract from it all the time.

The one thing I didn’t show was SLIPPERS! I also keep a pair of slippers on top of the bag and I take them to each different shogakko so I can wear slippers that actually fit my feet, instead of the smaller slippers on hand for guests at every school.

Thanks for watching!

-Jason

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