What’s with this requirement? Do they expect us to teach or be babysitters? What exactly does this requirement even mean? I read it and automatically think, “Must be willing to babysit children.”
Part of the job is babysitting the children while they wait to be picked up by their parents.
I mean if you work at a preschool… then yeah it seems like it is part of the teachers job to help take kids to the bathroom or help them eat their lunch. Japanese preschool teacher do it as well.
I wouldn’t touch a job that had that in the description with a ten foot pole. I’m not qualified to care for children and I don’t want to be responsible for the lives of other human beings.
Sounds like you feel similarly, so I would recommend not taking that job.
I think you will have to ask them in the interview process what it entails. There are kindergarten/nursery schools that have ALT like positions, where you go to different schools every day. There are schools that have a full-time position at a kindergarten and the ALT rotates between the classes to teach English. You might be required to provide childcare by watching the kids during recess time/after school or help a class out when they need an extra hand.
I am a homeroom teacher for my kindergarten class. My main job isn’t to provide childcare per se, but sometimes we are short-handed so I have to help out. My assistant teacher helps me with accidents and stuff, but I still have to help out because my assistant is handling the child, but the accident hasn’t been dealt with. I have to clean it up or I have to get the office staff to help out.
FYI: The Japanese teachers have nursery/kindergarten licenses, but they get paid less than us at every school I have worked here.
If the ad is for a pre-school, then that automatically entails at least some level of child management. This might mean low-level helping like herding kids off to the park, or more intensive like helping the kids eat lunch and wash hands and all that. If it’s in the job description and they’re up front about it, I don’t see anything wrong with that.
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Also, this might blow your mind, but with the current state of the teaching market in Japan, 250,000 *is* fair compensation for expecting someone to use English while managing kids. If you’re looking for more, I suggest an Eikaiwa like AEON as their starting pay is 275,000. Although, Eikaiwa itself has its own problems.
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Was this an ad for a kindergarten?
Part of the job is babysitting the children while they wait to be picked up by their parents.
I mean if you work at a preschool… then yeah it seems like it is part of the teachers job to help take kids to the bathroom or help them eat their lunch. Japanese preschool teacher do it as well.
I wouldn’t touch a job that had that in the description with a ten foot pole. I’m not qualified to care for children and I don’t want to be responsible for the lives of other human beings.
Sounds like you feel similarly, so I would recommend not taking that job.
I think you will have to ask them in the interview process what it entails. There are kindergarten/nursery schools that have ALT like positions, where you go to different schools every day. There are schools that have a full-time position at a kindergarten and the ALT rotates between the classes to teach English. You might be required to provide childcare by watching the kids during recess time/after school or help a class out when they need an extra hand.
I am a homeroom teacher for my kindergarten class. My main job isn’t to provide childcare per se, but sometimes we are short-handed so I have to help out. My assistant teacher helps me with accidents and stuff, but I still have to help out because my assistant is handling the child, but the accident hasn’t been dealt with. I have to clean it up or I have to get the office staff to help out.
FYI: The Japanese teachers have nursery/kindergarten licenses, but they get paid less than us at every school I have worked here.
If the ad is for a pre-school, then that automatically entails at least some level of child management. This might mean low-level helping like herding kids off to the park, or more intensive like helping the kids eat lunch and wash hands and all that. If it’s in the job description and they’re up front about it, I don’t see anything wrong with that.
​
Also, this might blow your mind, but with the current state of the teaching market in Japan, 250,000 *is* fair compensation for expecting someone to use English while managing kids. If you’re looking for more, I suggest an Eikaiwa like AEON as their starting pay is 275,000. Although, Eikaiwa itself has its own problems.
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