Trainee teachers from Japan had the chance to get out of their comfort zone, as they delivered online lessons to school students spread across rural and regional Queensland.
The Miyagi University education students recently spent a couple of days at the Capricornia School of Distance Education (CSDE), as part of a schedule arranged by CQUniversity’s CQUEnglish program.
“We showed the visiting Japanese students how we use the online tools in our ‘on the air lessons’ with students and they were able to use powerpoint to prepare their own lessons for our Year 3-12 students,” said CSDE’s Language Department Head, Stacey Stewart.
“Our students are spread from Mackay to Dalby and west to Birdsville and we even have some overseas students from Africa and a few other countries.”
Japanese student Tomohide Yamaki said the CSDE visit was a most unusual but interesting experience.
“In Japan we are learning to teach in face to face classrooms, but we welcomed the challenge of communicating with students in a very different environment,” Mr Yamaki says.
“We’ve been enjoying a range of social outings during our two-week visit to Rockhampton.”
Twenty-two of the visiting Japanese students have been housed with Homestay families, arranged by CQUEnglish, with two others living at the Student Residences on campus.
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