Montreal Japanese School
When I lived in Sweden from age 9 to 14, my mother enrolled me and my sister to the Japanese School in Stockholm. I attended the school every Saturday from 9AM to 3:30PM, studying the Japanese language, mathematics, and social studies/history. I studied with Japanese classmates whose parents' jobs located them in Sweden, and also half-Japanese classmates who were born and raised in Sweden.
Although sometimes I did not like having to attend school on Saturdays and having to do an intense amount of extra homework, I am grateful that my mother encouraged me to attend this school. The experience truly helped me keep my Japanese language ability, and the mathematics learnt there helped greatly when I enrolled the International school when I moved back in Japan in 2002. I am still great friends with the classmates from then, and am in touch with the teachers.
This is why, when I moved to Montreal to attend university and found out Montreal too, had a Japanese school, decided that I want to volunteer and help in the way I could. I am not giving back to the school I attended, but I wanted to get involved and get to know children who are in the position I was in, ten years ago.
From January 2009, I volunteered as an assistant teacher in a grade 1 classroom with 19 students. I assisted the teacher during class in lesson delivery and in classroom management. I also did a lot of correcting work, as many of the homework had to be given back within one day.
From fall 2009, I have been assisting grade 2/3 classrooms in correcting homework.
Although sometimes I did not like having to attend school on Saturdays and having to do an intense amount of extra homework, I am grateful that my mother encouraged me to attend this school. The experience truly helped me keep my Japanese language ability, and the mathematics learnt there helped greatly when I enrolled the International school when I moved back in Japan in 2002. I am still great friends with the classmates from then, and am in touch with the teachers.
This is why, when I moved to Montreal to attend university and found out Montreal too, had a Japanese school, decided that I want to volunteer and help in the way I could. I am not giving back to the school I attended, but I wanted to get involved and get to know children who are in the position I was in, ten years ago.
From January 2009, I volunteered as an assistant teacher in a grade 1 classroom with 19 students. I assisted the teacher during class in lesson delivery and in classroom management. I also did a lot of correcting work, as many of the homework had to be given back within one day.
From fall 2009, I have been assisting grade 2/3 classrooms in correcting homework.