Arent you the same owner who has been struggling to find teachers?
Nike
All schools have the same criteria, dude.
They want young-youngish, genki, smiley, outgoing friendly people who like kids, are good at taking orders, and who won’t complain too much.
What they don’t want is anyone who actually has a teaching qualification, because such a person would try to suggest changes that would bring standards up, and we can’t have that can we, since none of the other staff would be able to measure up.
That really is about all there is to it, and it’s no great mystery.
It ain’t rocket science.
Are you a school or eikaiwa?
Hell yeah! That would be very interesting
Please yeah
I wouldn’t waste time on reddit.
People will constantly give you shit for being honest.
+1 for your organization isn’t a school and you don’t hire for teaching positions. Post title is misleading, and whatever advice you give won’t apply for actual teaching positions in actual schools.
Obviously an English degree is the best.
Which gets good first look/ foot in the door? CELTA, DELTA, DipTESOL, MA TESOL….
Characteristics of good teachers?
thanks
Sure that would be very helpful! What is your school’s name?
For if no other reason than it’s really interesting to hear how good schools do it.
I don’t and have never worked eikaiwa but I thought Ryan’s presentation for the school owners sig at jalt last year was really interesting. Showed you don’t have to be a ruthless profit chaser to make a successful school… And that it’s not at odds with good pedagogy either.
More information is generally better than less, with the caveat that if you don’t post some pretty clear information about what kind of job you hire for, your information about what you select for is near useless. No experienced, qualified teacher wants to hear advice about wearing a suit and shining your shoes from someone who hires for a sub-250k/eikaiwa job, just like no one going for dispatch ALT positions needs to hear about whether you are impressed by linguists who believe in generative grammar or whether you want followers of a functional model.
If you think you can give that kind of specificity without self-doxxing, go for it.
Please do tell if they select people from non eglish speaking countries with certification!
It would be more useful if you posted why teachers left in the past.
I think you’ve answered your own question.
Don’t bother. This subreddit is garbage for the most part. It’d be a waste of your time. I’m here for the hilarity.
Edit: unless you’re hiring from outside of Japan. Then those people would be interested I’m sure.
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Arent you the same owner who has been struggling to find teachers?
Nike
All schools have the same criteria, dude.
They want young-youngish, genki, smiley, outgoing friendly people who like kids, are good at taking orders, and who won’t complain too much.
What they don’t want is anyone who actually has a teaching qualification, because such a person would try to suggest changes that would bring standards up, and we can’t have that can we, since none of the other staff would be able to measure up.
That really is about all there is to it, and it’s no great mystery.
It ain’t rocket science.
Are you a school or eikaiwa?
Hell yeah! That would be very interesting
Please yeah
I wouldn’t waste time on reddit.
People will constantly give you shit for being honest.
+1 for your organization isn’t a school and you don’t hire for teaching positions. Post title is misleading, and whatever advice you give won’t apply for actual teaching positions in actual schools.
Obviously an English degree is the best.
Which gets good first look/ foot in the door?
CELTA, DELTA, DipTESOL, MA TESOL….
Characteristics of good teachers?
thanks
Sure that would be very helpful! What is your school’s name?
For if no other reason than it’s really interesting to hear how good schools do it.
I don’t and have never worked eikaiwa but I thought Ryan’s presentation for the school owners sig at jalt last year was really interesting. Showed you don’t have to be a ruthless profit chaser to make a successful school… And that it’s not at odds with good pedagogy either.
More information is generally better than less, with the caveat that if you don’t post some pretty clear information about what kind of job you hire for, your information about what you select for is near useless. No experienced, qualified teacher wants to hear advice about wearing a suit and shining your shoes from someone who hires for a sub-250k/eikaiwa job, just like no one going for dispatch ALT positions needs to hear about whether you are impressed by linguists who believe in generative grammar or whether you want followers of a functional model.
If you think you can give that kind of specificity without self-doxxing, go for it.
Please do tell if they select people from non eglish speaking countries with certification!
It would be more useful if you posted why teachers left in the past.
I think you’ve answered your own question.
Don’t bother. This subreddit is garbage for the most part. It’d be a waste of your time. I’m here for the hilarity.
Edit: unless you’re hiring from outside of Japan. Then those people would be interested I’m sure.