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 October 29, 2023 Sunday

Yokohama Christ Church Bazaar

Good weather with Halloween going on Yamate area 

helped to have a good crowd, sold out our hotdogs before noon.

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For a while I am pondering whether to continue the educational institute 

as time is running out. It is true that I am thinking of writing St. Joseph Monogatari 

with Kermit in 2024 and needs time to spend more on reading and writing

without distractions, but at the same time , my life career is teaching and working with 

education.

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My daughter said that Jijitsushin and Nikkei predicted that Japan is no longer number 3 Economic power.

Germany will pass Japan soon and Japan becomes number 4. I expected to happen in a few years but

it is happening faster. It will be India and others soon. It is like England or Great Britain. In any case rich are rich and poor will multiply.

Japan is no longer Economic power and what is the meaning of G7?

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 October 23, 2023

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A class on Sunday

1)Read Asahi Weekly News with Juken English drill.

2)EIKEN JUn1kyu 2020 # 3 Test : Vocabulary, Reading, and writing sections

3) Gave them Progress Book 5 # Chapter 3 to read and answer grammar sections by November 5th

Next week due to Yokohama Christ Church Bazaar no class.

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 October 21, 2023

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Saturday lesson of Shuma: 

1. Reading from the Asahi Weekly newspaper

2. Lakewood assignments review

3. EIKEN Jun1kyu 2020 test

4. Next meeting will be on Friday Holiday of November 3rd at 2 pm Yamate Station

5, Please bring your Lakewook University book and assignments.

6. Planning to visit Lakewood University , Tokyo Campus at Ryogoku on November 1st.

Some thoughts about YUC board meeting: Jeff talks too much and they have to do something about the new pastor accommodation

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 October 21, 2023

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I went up to Meguro Beyondia International School yesterday to observe their afternoon classes.

I just thought they are another Eikaiwa afternoon classes as I expected from Yokohama Christian School.

They are running afternoon classes with IB program/Cambridge English program. There is a system to it.

I felt more and more IB program is set to be the global standard and Japanese government had decided that will be the global standard system for Japan. Whether you like it or not it is. Mrs. Bernard who was in charge of IB in the whole East Asia in 2007 mentioned to Chuo U. High School (they tried but failed)

that the largest number of IB schools in the world was the USA with 2000 or more schools. Japanese government was the first member to participate 40-50 years ago but did nothing for years suddenly decided to make it their global standard in 2012 and spend three consecutive years free IB training courses for the owners thinking of incorporating or teachers training for schools who were thinking of 

incorporating it. I took three  years free training under Gyosei Kokusai and Chiyoda International School Tokyo where I met the owners of Horizon,Aoba, and Beyondia international schools.

Beyondia International  School, Meguro has 60 students and 12 afternoon class students and pre-school itself ends in 5:30 and extended class will be 7 pm. That is what Hoikuen is supposed to be and most of the "international schools" are Ninka Gai Hoikuen including St. Albans or Yokohama Christian School.

Curriculum itself is well guided by Cambridge and IB system. It is not cheap to have IB system because they will have consultants and coordinators but it looks it is working well.

And Beyondia is run very well by the Director/Owner/RIJICHO who is extremely well educated businessman and without doubt he is very competent.

I ask how they recruit students. They of course have a  Homepage and people can refer to it, but the Encho ('I think is extremely competent) said they will hand out brochures in front of  Daikanyama Tsutaya(it is like MM21 but more high class being in Tokyo) and have a space or a room at Tsutaya to demonstrate lessons and explain to the young parents( most of them are double income well to do parents, plus Meguro, Shinagawa, Minato pay parents good  subsidiary money to have children to be sent to pre-schools 

more than other cities).Meguro support money is far higher than Yokohama and YCS parents  depend on these subs too and St. Albans too.

One think in this business I notice is that the head of the school must be a Japanese(maybe Chinese or Korean) to contact Japanese government and know and have contact with Japanese business world, maybe as Kermit had said and even New International School head had said "you must be a Japanese or have a Japanese partner to do "English language" business here.

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Today I will visit Beyondia International School afternoon class.

I know they have a total of 60 minutes in their pre-school program. 

When I receive a call from Dennis about the development of Nasu city working on the international school project with Beyondia, I spoke about their success and see some slow down in pre-schools or international Christian schools like St. Alban in the prime spot of Tokyo and has only 20 students or Yokohama Christian School with prime facilities and location and far behind Beyondia or other proprietor schools, he said people are not interested in religious schools or maybe suspicious of the religious centered curriculum.

Reading today's Yozemi-Sapix pr articles in Nikkei, it seems Japan is really interested in international education and this may change the set ups in the education here.

I am interested in CLIL education and would like to have Math taught in English in the afternoon classes.

I would see whether it is possible to have it.

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Today I went to Fujimi High School to teach EIKEN 2kyu.

To succeed you must know to write 100 words essay; listening test of 30 problems of 30 minutes;

vocabulary and reading.

 

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 October 19, 2023

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Receive several calls from the New Zealand Embassy concerned about the poppies and wreaths on the Remembrance Day at the British Commonwealth War Cemetery.

Receive a call from Dennis on the Nasu international school project.

I will have EIKEN at Fujimi High School today

and tomorrow will go to Meguro to observe the afternoon school of the Beyondia International School.

Looking forward to observe the successful international school in Japan.

EIKEN will be listening skill improvement of EIKEN 2kyu.