I've been doing this for far too long, and I've had to sit through a lot of these trainings about how to make the classes more interesting or things we can do to help. Also that we're real teachers.
But the thing is we're not. I wish for once I had a training that actually reflected the reality of the situation. A lot of the time the activities they mention in the training just aren't going to work because of the skill level. Also, at the end of the day it is the JTE's class and how they want to utilize the ALT is up to them. They have a curriculum to teach.
Maybe these activities would work on an elementary school level since the ALT has more control I assume. But shouldn't the ALT be only T2 even there?
I am just frustrated. Going to these trainings just make me think about how I need to get out of this, but once I get into the actual classes it's not so bad.
edit：I thought training and seminar were the same so I just changed it all to training. Sorry.
by Negative_Let_285