Teacher Water Cooler – Month of November 2022

Discuss the state of the teaching industry in Japan with your fellow teachers! Use this thread to discuss salary trends, companies, minor questions that don’t warrant a whole post, and build a rapport with other members of the community.

Please keep discussions civilized. Mods will remove any offending posts.

7 comments
  1. That thread about “English teaching jobs” got a lot of traffic.

    My impression is that most of the people who responded in that thread are unqualified working in dispatch and eikaiwa jobs.

    For those of you who are qualified teachers, do teaching positions in ELT, private schools, international schools pay less, the same or better?

  2. If I go to Japan in 2023 working for eikaiwa, can I get hired by JET for 2024 applying from within Japan?

  3. Anyone have any tips on helping JHS students with the “err” sound, like the “er” in “teacher” or making “first” not sound like “farst.” I don’t care about accent so much as I care about the students being able to delineate between the sounds when listening.

  4. For publications for journals for Uni jobs, how many words does a typical publication need to be?

  5. When kids say they listen to vocaloid are they talking about artist who make stuff with the app mostly?

  6. I really wish Japan would put this whole learn the grammar algorithm plug in the words concept of language learning to rest. Just does not work like that. Oddly the only way I can convince them otherwise is learn it like a baby metaphor which I do hate because its only kinda true and you then have to correct your correction. I also just tend to but heads here because every time we have a low performing class my instinct is double down on the communicative teaching and theirs is to double down on the grammar.

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