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Top 3 Reasons the JET Program is Worthwhile

Posted on August 4, 2012     2 Comments

This article is the second in a series of reflections about my time spent in Japan with the JET Program.  You can read my first article, about how the JET Program changed me, here. Top 3 Reasons the JET Program is Worthwhile The JET Program occasionally comes under scrutiny – both from officials in Japan worried […]

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Teaching Tips for New JETs

Posted on July 26, 2011     2 Comments

Exactly one year ago, I arrived in Japan to begin my tenure with the JET Programme as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Namerikawa, Japan. My plan was to stay a year, save some money, see another side of the world and then come back to start my life in Chicago.  Things moved so fast, and I […]

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