Sorry this is a really specific question about International School teachers in Japan.
So I was actually looking at a tiktok the other day about the curriculum that certain International Schools implement into their schools. They could be American, English, IB, French and so on. I read a few of the schools websites and saw that they implement the curriculum from their home country. I assume this means that when they teach the subjects throughout the day, they are using the SAME curriculum they use from their home country, yes? Along with what ever International curriculum they also want to implement.
Does that mean if I have a Bachelors Degree in Education that I got in Australia, it would be impossible for me to get a job in an International School unless I had a degree in Education from the country that they implement their curriculum?
Also when they claim that they use a certain curriculum, who is checking to make sure that it is being implemented? The Government in their home country would make sure they are using it correctly, however, if there is a French International School in Tokyo and they are using the French National Curriculum, who is checking?
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I have two friends who work at the same International school and they’re from different countries. It’s likely not a problem unless the school itself wants it to be aligned with a particular country’s values for whatever reason.
r/teachinginjapan might be more helpful
I don’t work at an international school, but I think you are likely qualified. It really would depend school by school. For example, the ASIJ site implies they’d accept non-Americans because they accept qualification from “provinces” (we don’t have provinces). They also are vague about the curriculum (they talk about the “framework”). Actually, in the US, the curriculum will vary state by state anyway.
Canadian school lists their accreditations. You can see they get inspected by PEI for example.
My child goes to a supplementary international school. It’s not full-time. He goes for English and they claim they follow an American curriculum. His teacher is British and he’s great. The books themselves are very much American and in fact nearly exactly what I used when I was a kid in America.