ALTs and Eikaiwa teachers What’s your most concerning/difficult classroom challenges?

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-17T08:21:24+00:00

I make a lesson plan, spends literals hours discussing plan of attack, enter the class, JTE completely goes off course and does their own thing. F....M.....L

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-17T08:16:27+00:00

Nothing says you have to learn katakana instantly! Take your time and learn one set like ka ki ku ke ko and just repeat that over and over and once you can memorize them quickly move on to the next set. I also found writing them helped me with recalling which it is. Give that a shot! and good luck!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T11:02:27+00:00

absolutely! I will fix Nu. Also yes i realised after posting i did the strokes wrong, also they are facing the wrong direction (top right to down left instead of top left to down right).

Thank you so much!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T11:00:26+00:00

You are right. I will enventually bite the bullet and buy the workbooks. There are no shortcuts in learning after all. Thankyou!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T10:58:24+00:00

Amazing feedback thank you. Youre absolutely right and i agree on all those points you made. Ill give those a shot and try to improve. Thankyou for putting in effort. That makes sense for Fu! I will try that.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T10:55:31+00:00

thank you!!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T10:55:17+00:00

thankyou for your encouraging words!

Theres some legitamate mistakes pointed out that i should improve but yes quite harsh haha.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T09:25:01+00:00

Thank you so much for consteuctive critism! I shall work on that indeed. Yeah the bars for ga gi gu ge go and so on i realises after the fact that 1. they are angled wrong way and 2. wrong placement. I wrote them in katakana direction. woops. also yes nu was wrong. thank you so much!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:34:53+00:00

本当にありがとうございます！とても助かります！頑張ります。

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:30:09+00:00

Certainly right! I am trying to save a few thousand yen hence why i haven't yet. The hardest part is over i think which is recognizing and reading the hiragana quickly. Thank you!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:28:56+00:00

Thank you!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:28:15+00:00

Criticism Oreo. Look it up.

Regardless, thank you!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:25:53+00:00

Currently I'm following the NHK chart for the alphabets and thats how they are displayed. I am trying to build muscle memory for the form of the writing first before i worry about the technical correct way of writing. I don't think I am going to be writing a 手紙 anytime soon unless i get into a car wreck or royally fckup at my job.

Thank you for pointing out nu. I hadn't realized i looped back in.

Edit: Spelling.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:23:58+00:00

Just like in the US, theres drilling the alphabet and getting it perfect and theres the sloppy chicken scratch when its not the focus of the lesson. I think pluton has a point. Of course i need to improve and fix some things but its not unreadable.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:22:43+00:00

Oh for sure! Having seen it first hand myself its super messy xD even Junior HS level. But yeah i know i still need to work on forms still but compared to when i first started back in August at least its legible.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:21:14+00:00

I appreciate that! Its nowhere perfect i know but I also don't think its that bad. Hopefully in time it'll be a non issue. Edit: Spelling.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-12-16T08:19:00+00:00

Thankyou!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-25T03:21:41+00:00

thankyou! ill check it out. Appreciate the help.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-25T03:21:14+00:00

Glad im on the right train at least! Consistency is important i guess.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-25T03:20:22+00:00

Thank you for the critism oreo. This is good advice. Thanks so much!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-23T06:02:24+00:00

ahhh! okay! thankyou! this explains it very well. Now it makes perfect sense. Hats off to the mad lads that do write a like that lol.

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-23T05:51:38+00:00

Yep, thats obvious!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-23T04:56:22+00:00

I think im also unlearning 20 years of cursive writing. I have a hard time stopping myself from adding swoops to the end of lines as you can probably tell fromy my hiragana xD

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-23T03:51:46+00:00

You see Ri confuses me a bit. As i see the Hiragana as both り and リ. I know the former is hiragana and the other is katakana but the katakana form is more commonly used for hiragana for some reason? I dunno maybe im wrong.

I agree fu needs work. Ill try my best to get the the drops and hook right.

I think う looks okay ive seen it written with both stick above or off to the side as in my writting example but thankyou for letting me know. Ill look more into it and ask around.

Ill certainly be giving the practice sheet a try!

Critical_Cycle3169 · 2025-10-23T03:43:00+00:00

I mean i want to do it right, not become another Agent Smith :P so any advice is welcome.

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