EEducation in Japan

Any have experience working in the Young Learners or Secondary School Programs for Westgate?

I know that Westgate is more known for its university teaching, but wondering if anyone has experience with this. It appears to be different than programs such as JET given how you’re not an ALT but rather the sole classroom teacher.

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  1. Took a look at the website. Interesting – seems Westgate is putting themselves up as competition against Interac.

    Looks like you get slightly more pay than an ALT, but instead of having a classroom teacher as a backup, you do ALL the lesson prep and teaching, and you’re the only one in the room.

    You also don’t need qualifications, which means you have no training in elementary education or child development to help you handle a class of 20 7 year olds.

    You don’t even need to speak Japanese – so discipline in the form of verbal commands is out the window.

    And a four month contract, so you can get fired at any point along the way without the chance of redress of any kind.

    Yeah, sounds great. I wonder why everyone isn’t applying.

  2. I worked for Westgate at the university level and asked about being transferred to the elementary school. The elementary school is connected to the university that Westgate operates in. You would be the “ESL specialist” and you would get a 1-year contract instead of the 3-4 month contract that they give to University instructors. I heard that they have very few positions like this available, so if you applied without appropriate experience as a teacher, you might get assigned as a University instructor instead.

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