————————————————————————————————————————————— What is educational reform? <\/b> How will the school classes change? <\/b> Congratulations for your achievement of becoming a reading Yokozuna! I believe all these readers gained courage, adventurousness, gentleness, and kindness in their heart. I would like to praise their efforts to read many books with my words of \u201cCongratulations! Well done\u201d. Request for children\u2019s books donation <\/b> Everyone tries to achieve success. However, getting quick results from discovering an accelerated path to achievement is rare. Doing ordinary things every day is harder than it sounds. It is actually an extraordinary talent to be able to continue a consistent effort every day.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1-2.png\")
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\nWhile we can find anything if we search on our smartphones, the government started the educational reform to focus on raising not only an ability to gain knowledge, but also an ability to use knowledge. Actual reforms will be introduced in 2020. However, many schools have already started their own reforms. The learning style for the parents\u2019 generation, such as \u201csit and listen to the teacher,\u201d is going to be \u201cthe past\u201d!?<\/p>\n
\nThe government curriculum guideline will be revised for the first time in 10 years. Starting in 2020 for elementary school, 2021 for middle school, and 2022 for high school, a new education curriculum will be introduced. The last\u00a0revision was so called \u201cpressure-free education,\u201d which focused on adjusting the volume of knowledge.<\/p>\nThis time, acquiring the ability to use knowledge is added to the goals of education. They are focusing on teaching useful abilities to live in the society, such as ability to think, ability to judge, and ability to express.<\/ul>\n
\nWhat kind of class will provide the ability to use knowledge? A technique called \u201cactive learning\u201d is the one that has gotten attention. It is not \u201csitting and listening what teachers tell you,\u201d but \u201cchildren playing a leading role,\u201d including presentation and \/or discussion by children.
\n Entrance exams will change, too!\u00a0<\/b> The education reforms include changes in entrance exams. Private middle school entrance exams contain more questions that require more than just memorized knowledge. Besides, the National Center Test for University Admissions will be discontinued in 2020, and the new University Admissions Common Test will be introduced. In order to assess \u201cability of thinking\u201d and \u201cability of expression,\u201d essay questions will be added in Japanese and Math.<\/p>\nReading \u201cYokozuna\u201d are born<\/h2>\n
\n Preschool <\/a><\/b>
\nP1 Ema Kato (7th)
\n Middle school <\/b>
\nM3 Hikaru Inaoka
\n Inherit Japanese <\/b>
\nJ2 Misha Kai<\/p>\nAnnouncement<\/h2>\n
From Library<\/h2>\n
\nPlease donate your used books in your home for the bazaar on February 17th. Usually there are not enough children\u2019s books for sale in the bazaar. We appreciate your donation of books or DVDs for children from preschooler to upper grades, either in Japanese or English. Children love comics that were published in last 2-3 years; however, please contact us if you would like to donate some old comics, either by (yokoprice@msn.com), or in person at the library. We also accept study guides and sub text books (such as kanji drills, hiragana practice notebook, etc.).
\n Request for books donation for adults <\/b>
\nWe always appreciate your donations for adults; however, please note below.
\n\u2022 We cannot accept specialty (medical, laws, science) books, and magazines older than 1 year.
\n\u2022 We may not accept very old books depending on their condition, so please check with any of us.
\n Process for donation <\/a><\/b>
\nPlease contact us by e-mail between Jan 20th and Feb 10th if you\u2019d like to donate any books. We will take them at your convenient time and place. Also, please bring your books to the bazaar on February 17th and hand them to the one of the library committee executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doing ordinary things everyday with plain mind is extraordinary<\/h1>\n
\n\u201cIf we call a person who can achieve something without effort a genius, I am not. If we call a person who achieves something due to his or her effort a genius, I think I am. If you think I can hit a ball without much effort, that is wrong.\u201d So said Ichiro, who is a genius of hard work. \u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}