{"id":13999,"date":"2010-10-12T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2010-10-12T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:49:25","slug":"future-of-jet-reinventing-english-education-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/12\/future-of-jet-reinventing-english-education-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of JET: Reinventing English Education in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><em>Daily Yomiuri<\/em><\/strong> article (&#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/national\/T101010001858.htm\">Japan Teachers May Get English Training in U.S.<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;) reports that as part of an effort to reform the current English education structure in Japan, Japan and the U.S. are considering &#8220;a program that would send young Japanese teachers of English to the United States to improve their English ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the full article:\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/national\/T101010001858.htm\">http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/national\/T101010001858.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea appears to still in be in the concept stage, and it is unclear whether exposing JTE&#8217;s to U.S. education will inherently assist in their ability to deliver English to the Japanese classroom. Also unclear is what form this &#8220;training&#8221; will take.<\/p>\n<p>The project seems to allow for the inference that the JET Programme will be scaled back and perhaps retooled, with a possibility of outright elimination.<\/p>\n<p>With the possibility of Japanese Teacher of English being brought into local American communities, it would be interesting to contemplate a supporting role for JETAA and JET alums generally to assist recruited teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Daily Yomiuri article (&#8220;Japan Teachers May Get English Training in U.S.&#8220;) reports that as part of an effort to reform the current English education structure in Japan, Japan and the U.S. are considering &#8220;a program that would send young Japanese teachers of English to the United States to improve their English ability.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[282,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-roi","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3DN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14005,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions\/14005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}