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Article #269: Teaching English In Japan: Becoming A Jet-setter

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There is, in Japan, a great demand for premiere English teaching jobs in Japan
native English speakers teaching English, come through the JET program, overseen by
but most of that demand comes from the Japanese government. The JET
private English "conversation schools", program, while it does include employment
or Ekaiwa, or JET, the Japan Exchange and teaching English in Japanese schools on a
Teaching Program. daily basis, is really designed to expose
Teaching English in Japanese Ekaiwa the Japanese people to foreigners.
Ekaiwa are very common in Japan, and are Most of those teaching English in the JET
"schools" in which those teaching English program are assistant teachers in
will be actually offering individual of Japanese middle and high schools. They
small class sessions of conversations. must be under forty, and have both
Ekaiwa give Japanese of every age a excellent language skills and a college
chance to engage in real English degree--although the field does not
conversation; teaching English in this matter--and they are not allowed to
way can give the teacher a chance to see choose the part of Japan in which they
their students progress in a very short will be working. If accepted to the JET
time. program, however, their airfare will be
There are chains of ekaiwa in Japan, provided. For more info see on Teaching.
rather like there are chains of ballroom Those accepted to teach English in the
dancing studios in the US. The premier JET program will have to have great
chains include Geos and ECC, which have interpersonal skills, because they will
upwards of two hundred ekaiwa, but there be immersed in a foreign culture and left
are thousands of smaller schools. more or less to their own devices as far
Salaries and working conditions will vary as seeing that their basic needs are met.
according to the money behind each And they will be responsible for
operation. representing their native countries while
Those wanting to teach English in the in Japan.
Japanese ekaiwas can contact one of the Given a choice between the ekaiwa and JET
recruitment offices that the chain ekaiwa English teaching positions, most of those
operators have established abroad, in considering a job in Japan opt for the
particular in the US, UK, Canada, and JET program, which offers better salaries
Australia. While the better schools in and, most of the time, better working
the most desirable locations may require conditions. But if you are young and
degrees in English and teaching resourceful, and want to see Japan while
experience, many ekaiwa only require a getting paid for doing something that is
college degree. second nature to you--speaking
The JET Program English--an ekaiwa job can be just the
Many people, however, find that the ticket!.






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