Hi folks, I’m a teacher living in Japan looking for either a primary or secondary level English teaching job in a private school. While all my teaching experience in Japan has been in primary schools, the majority of my teaching experience in other countries has been in secondary schools. Therefore, I’m most familiar with the primary setting in Japan.
However, I’ve come across a few private junior/senior high school positions that I’d like to apply to, but I’d like to be at least a bit more familiar with what the private junior/senior high school teaching scene here is like. I took a good look around Reddit and elsewhere and now have a decent idea about the daily schedule and class sizes. But I’d appreciate other insights like how central of a focus is test prep; do you have anyone else in the class with you; how do you feel about the working conditions (e.g. pay, time off, working hours); how much freedom do you have to creatively plan lessons, etc. Of course this is all under the ESID umbrella, but I’d appreciate anything you have to share!