English teacher challenges students to plug in to the world
The English-language learning programs in Japan's public schools have long been criticized for being too focused on rote learning. But Mio Horio, a 32-year-old English teacher from mountainous Shiga Prefecture, is challenging the nation's system and nudging her students to think outside the box. Horio's teenage ...
For three inner-city Chicago teens, vivid memories of traveling to Japan with their Japanese-born schoolteacher, as part of a program initiated by a former prime minister, was a turning point that forever changed their lives. Erionna Tucker recalls the two trips she took while attending ...
Teacher champions critical thinking, a global perspective for students
After the terrorist attacks in Paris in November, Kazuya Takahashi, an English teacher at Kogakuin University Junior and Senior High School in western Tokyo, urged his students to discuss the Islamic State threat. The junior high students were asked to share their thoughts on how ...
Police said Monday they have filed charges with prosecutors against a 36-year-old senior high school teacher for burying kittens alive at his school in Chiba Prefecture last month in violation of the animal protection law. The man admitted burying five newborn kittens, four of which ...
Aichi teacher fractures student's back in altercation after basketball game
According to the board of education and the school in the city of Toyota, the same teacher was involved in a similar incident less than four years ago.
Non-native teachers of Japanese growing among Brazil's immigrants
A growing number of people in Brazil's large Japanese community are studying Japanese under non-native teachers. "I would like to go out on a date with you this weekend," one student practiced saying in Japanese during an entry-level class in Sao Paulo's Liberdade district, which ...
U.S. JET teacher features in 3/11 film
While Taylor Anderson's life was cut short on March 11, 2011, along with thousands of others caught in the massive tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Tohoku, the full life she led was a source of inspiration for an American documentarian ...
Organizer of annual writers' workshop helps others find artistic way
John Gribble gives a part of every day to creating. Whether it's pinpointing the perfect word for a poem or plucking out a ditty on a guitar, his life and livelihood in some way proves creative. As a poet and teacher, Gribble has spent ...
Canadian uses sports as bridge to teaching, writing, understanding
Writer, teacher and sports fan Trevor Kew, 32, pedals and kicks his way through culture shock. He uses sports to help him adapt to unfamiliar cultures or new places when traveling, trusting his bike or a soccer ball to bridge the gap with locals. Kew's ...
Yoshiko Tatsumi: Cookery guru serves wisdom with her soups
"Never fight a war with Chinese people, because we would lose," Yoshiko Tatsumi sternly warned, "with absolute certainty," a 40-strong group of mostly middle-aged women gathered recently in her spacious three-story residence set in gardens in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. "What we eat today is no ...
