In my opinion, the best way to work in JHS is as a member of a team with your JTE's, rather than being resigned to a role of tape recorder, provider of a 15 minute activity every class, or having to run the whole class myself. In this podcast, I give some strategies to help you work towards that goal of having the most fun in your Junior High Schools with as many of your teachers as possible!
Resist.
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Things Mentioned in This Episode:
* FY Obituary
* Tape Recorder Role
* Warm-Up Game
* Working with your JTEs
* Envelopes
* Eating Koalas
* Last Minute Games
* Say No to Stickers
Thing to do:
* Leave a Review in itunes! (Click here)
Transcript:
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James: Hello ALT Insiders! Welcome to episode 004, the ALT Insider podcast all about how you can be more than just a piece of electronics at your junior high schools. If you want to, of course, let's get to it.
Tantalizing Announcer: Welcome to the ALT Insider podcast dedicated to making you have the most fun possible wild living or dreaming about living in Japan. Whether you've been for years or just starting to consider it, we've got you covered. And now, your host, broadcasting from somewhere in Japan - James.
James: Okay, guys. Yes, it is James from the ALT Insider podcast, welcome to episode 004. And today, before we get going, I want to get into why the intro has the epic guy's voice and I come in with the stupid "James," and that is because, well, on the website, I used to go by the name F.Y. until I said I wanted to be James at the website. You can read all about that, altinsider.com/FYobituary. But after I came out, as using my real name James, I had to change the guy's intro. So instead of hire him again to make the voice intro, I just did it myself that's why it sounds way less cool than his voice, but we work with what we have, right?
Okay, so I hope you guys are having a great time in Japan. In the beginning of the show, this is where I read the iTunes review and I have one here from jetjackson5 and he says, the title was, "Subbed," and he says, "Keep it rockin'." And I do keep on rocking it, if you would like to leave a review, please do and I will read it on the next podcast possibly, of course.
Okay, so today's topic: how to resist the role of "tape recorder" when you're working in junior high schools. So first, let's go over what a junior high school ALT does. Now for me, it's kind of like four choices, four uses that ALTs have in junior high schools. One is the ALT that is only a tape recorder.
Now what this means is, the teacher does their class and every time they would use a, push a tape recorder to read a vocab, to read a dialogue, they have you do that instead. That is the definition of your job, you're a tape recorder, you are the natural pronunciation machine. When they need something repeated,
