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WORD-OF-THE-WEEK
2013-2015 ✦ whiteboard marker ✦ weekly vocabulary lessons   Images ordered from oldest to newest.
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Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1

  Series 1 (2013-2014) - Shikimi Jr High

During my job as an English-teaching ALT in Nagasaki Japan, I enjoyed drawing a weekly funny whiteboard image for my junior high school students. In early 2013 I started my "Word-of-the-Week", and did it almost every week, pausing for school breaks now and then. I picked a word that the students most likely hadn't studied yet - usually a funny or strange word - and drew something to accompany it, often using pop-culture references. The images started off very simple and basically just doodles, but I gradually made them more detailed and got new marker colors to make them more colorful.		  


Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1


Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 1







Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
 
Series 2 (2014-2015) - Mikawa Jr High

After moving to a new Nagasaki junior high, Mikawa, I continued my word-of-the-week whiteboards, but this time I opted for a vertical layout. On a trip home to Michigan, I picked up a ton of new whiteboard marker colors, and my weekly illustrations got more elaborate. I didn't have quite the same zest for it at this second school, since it was a much larger, less personal teaching environment, and some of the roudier kids would mess with my drawings, but some of the kids really enjoyed it. I went on to teach at one more juniot high after this during my time as an ALT, but decided to retire the series with my moving on from Mikawa Jr High. I miss drawing those weekly pictures, and it was definitely one of my favorite parts of my ALT job!		  



Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2


Word-of-the-Week whiteboard, series 2
 
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