W-ING's teaching style is focused on having an even rhythm and tempo, bold gestures, strong patience, warm encouragement, and regular reinforcement.

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Lessons for children are focused on listening, speaking, writing, and reading. We teach children by presenting words in bite-sized chunks, isolating target letter combinations as symbols, and mixing other letters and combinations to practice a target sound. At the end of a lesson or routine, the target language is reinforced with games and homework.

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Lessons are tailored to fit the age of the class. Typically, 3-year-old children will do more songs, dancing, and physical movements, whereas 10-year-old children will play more complex games and reading presentations.

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In private group class lessons, the children first learn to read letters, letter combinations, words, and sentences—and then it’s on to the stories! As soon as the children can read 3-letter words (starting with the short vowel sounds first), they start reading stories. Why do I believe reading is important? The children learn to use their cognitive powers and imagination: Exploration begins in the mind. We need to feed the mind with nutrition, just as our body needs nutrition. The spark igniting those thoughts comes from the teacher, but hopefully, firstly from you—the parents. Why else do I think reading is important? Japanese children learn English grammar from junior high school through to the end of high school. This is important and a necessary ingredient for learning English, so to balance the other end of the scales, I get my students to read out loud: it is an important variation. They enjoy it when praised for effort and want to continue to do it, as they do when doing their homework, which leads to the final and most important step—solitary reading. Furthermore, an English lesson is only once per week. Books on the shelf at home are profitable to a child who loves to read. Why do we start the children on reading and homework from the first lesson? Homework is boring, isn’t it? Reading letters, words, sentences, and books is no fun, right? Playing around on the computer and doing nothing is more important, right? No, no, no—it’s cool to do homework; it's hip to be able to read. Most children usually exert positive energy: they are curious, fearless, eager to please, and want to show how good they can be, and most of the time—they are willing to learn.

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Through many years of experience, I have arrived at an objective conclusion: that how we teachers present lesson content and how we react to class performance and finished homework produces the best results in order to instill long-term motivation, self-reliance, and self-worth in the student. The lesson and homework are presented enthusiastically—the class performance is confronted encouragingly—and finished homework is received joyfully with an encouraging written comment or stamp as a reward. 

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What should I do if my child is developing slower than other children in the class?

Children are like adults: they have their strengths and weaknesses, victories and failures, good days and bad days. And just like adults, children will throw you odd and awkward curveballs but, at times, surprise you with a sharp increase in progress. I once had a student who was way behind the rest of the class when he first started. His answers were slow, his rhythm was staccato, and his writing was untidy. However, he always did his homework. His parents were patient. On Parent's Day, he did little and said next to nothing, but his parents clapped and projected hope at him. He was like this for four years, and then he broke free and blossomed. What a shock! He became an excellent student. This was mainly due to his parents; all I had to do was be consistent and wait.

 

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W-ING's Private Lesson Breakdown:

Nen-sho 35minutes, Nen-chu and Nen-cho classes 45 minutes, Elementary school students 50 minutes

 

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*KINDERGARTENS: For further details, contact Katsumi Tanaka:  w-ing@tbz.t-com.ne.jp 

 

 

*MAN-TO-MAN ADULT LESSONS: For further deatils, contact Gary Albrecht : garyajitaipen@gmail.com

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*The length of man-to-man adult lessons varies from 15 minutes to 60 minutes. These lessons can be conducted online, at a cafe, at the office, or at home. The price range is from 700 yen to 3500, depending on the type and lesson length.