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Tag: Ask Sensei

Ask Sensei! School Life Edition

The start of a new term seems to bring a fresh start for teachers as well as students. It’s an opportunity for all of us to be honest about what hasn’t worked so well in the past, while still retaining habits of mind and lifestyle that we have found helpful. For us teachers, it’s always… Read More Ask Sensei! School Life Edition

01.31.201801.30.2018 R869 Comments

Ask Sensei (Happy 2018 Edition)

For academics, the end of the term is pretty much the storm before the calm before the storm. Once we’re done grading final exams and establishing grades, our lives are suddenly quiet until the beginning of the next term. (glances at Shiraishi-kun’s empty chair) We might almost say “too quiet,” until we remember that everyone needs… Read More Ask Sensei (Happy 2018 Edition)

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Hakase ni kikimashou! (Let’s ask the professor!)

My voice on this blog is different from those of my colleagues here at Beneath The Tangles, though then again we are all of us very different from one another. I discovered anime as an adult well into my 30s, only because my students kept talking about this anime thing and I wondered what it… Read More Hakase ni kikimashou! (Let’s ask the professor!)

09.27.2017 R864 Comments

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