GTS as a Winner of National Teacher Award!

National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) has announced that GTS is the recipient of "Japanese Teacher of the Year 2008 of the U.S. Colleges and Universities!" The Award Ceremony will be held in Florida in November during the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) national conference. This is the great news for COD and GTS' students. GTS students can be proud of themselves regardless of their suffering from GTS academic educational "bully" and asked to be responsible for keeping up with their eagerness to learn Japanese. It is the most important to continue the Japanese learning and acquiring endeavor regardless of actual skills of what everyone can do in Japanese. The academic grade is NOT everything but just a tiny part of the life so move forward to the FUTURE. Well, GTS probably should behave better as every Japanese teacher in the U.S. can at least recognize his name. One day, all GTS students can say "I am SHINGO's student. You don't know Shingo? Too bad!" This is just a passing point yet one reaching point 15-year teaching at COD and in 20-year American life! (I should be more humble as a Japanese! Hahaha!)

Welcome to GTS blogspot!

You have just found this page through google or GTS if you are/were a student of mine. I sincerely welcome you to this page. I have been teaching Japanse language, Japanese history, Contemporary Japanese society, and Chinese language as well. Maybe you went or will go to Japan with me as an international field study program or Japan study abroad program offered through College of DuPage (COD). I was born and broght up in KYOTO where you must visit once in Japan. Anyone in the United States can participate these programs and earn college credits with in-district tuition through COD with very reasonable traveling cost!
So you may ask GTS about 'traveling to and in Japan'
I am also one of the leaderships for Japanese language education in USA. I was a President of National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) and Director of Japanese National Honor Society (JNHS-HS).
So you may ask GTS about 'teaching and learning Japanese in USA'
I'm not sure how often I can renew this blog but.... Hey let's enjoy together!