High School Program

This year we are beginning our high school NELP program. We currently have 4 regular High School First Grade NELP students, and 8 mixed-grade NELP students.

Simply put, students who graduate from Seishin Junior High School's NELP program, or who graduate from Seishin Junior High School and have passed the Eiken Second Grade STEP test, are eligible to join the High School NELP Oral Communication Class. Any student, both graduates of Seishin Junior High School as well as graduates of other junior high schools, who has passed the Eiken Second Grade STEP test is eligible to join our 8th Period NELP class.

The 8th Period NELP class is after school on Friday, from 16:15 to 17:00. There are three different courses and three different teachers. Our current Princeton in Asia intern, Claire, will teach Creative Communication. This course will include conversation, skits and role-plays. It is designed more for students who are interested in the humanities and conversational English. Shelly will teach Research Topics. This course is designed more for our science students, and is geared more for presentations, research papers and formal English. I will teach Independent Studies. This is for students interested in studying for English proficiency tests such as Eiken, TOEIC, TOEFL and others, as well as students who want more time to study their regular English work.

These courses will include a mix of first, second and third grade students. Each term, students may change the course they are studying. I hope that this will be a successful program. I'm currently teaching my three former junior high school third grade NELP students in my independent studies course, but I'm not sure if they will stay in my course next term. This will be my fourth year teaching two of these students, and my third year teaching the other student, and I'm afraid they may be a little tired of me, as evidenced by the student who, upon hearing that I would be her teacher again, made a heart-breaking display of disappointment. Perhaps she was hoping for a teacher with more hair?

Date: 2008⁄04⁄14 08:16｜Permalink｜Author：nelp

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