Suwa Seiryo High School

I am the AET at Suwa Seiryo High School, and spend about 3 days a week there. The school is about 5 minutes from our house by bicycle, down a steep hill in the morning, and up the same hill in the afternoon. :-) Seiryo has an outdated homepage It's a little outdated, and the English club is planning to update it after the spring vacation.

Seiryo is considered the top academic school in the area, and has some very clever students. Some of them speak English very well. I am able to do some advanced types of lessons at Seiryo, which i very much enjoy. I have done two lessons introducing the students to the internet, and plan to do a lesson on using e-mail and one on using a search engine to find stuff on the web. It's very rewarding to teach these classes, and i feel the kids get a lot out of it. My first lesson i made a site about our house in Austin for the kids to view and read, then i had handouts with questions about our house. That site is online at www.oocities.org/sitzmanhouse That class went over very well, and the rest is history. I used our Apple Powerbook G3 to serve the web page locally, to keep it fast. I had a fun time learning about the schools network and how to run a simple server software on our computer. I spend a lot of time on this curriculum, but i think it's worth it!