I received my placement and it had the school name, so im assuming private school. Is there a difference between being a public school and private school ALT?
I’m going to just assume you are placed in Tokyo. If not, disregard this:
Tokyo public school JETs work 16 days a month, but have to come in during summer/winter unless they use paid leave. Private school JETs “usually” get those times off, but because your employer is the school and not a larger BOE, every private school contract is going to be different.
In terms of actual duties, that can also vary. In most schools, you’ll be working as an assistant like most JETs, either with a Japanese teacher, or with a native teacher (like the 2 JETs function at my school), or you may be given more responsibility, possibly up to fully planning and teaching lessons every day. My co-JET and I had 17 classes a week and were responsible for all curriculum and tests.
I knew a girl who worked at a private school in Hokkaido. From what she said it seemed to be more or less the same as everybody else, except for the fact that she didn’t have any visit schools, so she was at the one school the whole time. That can be a really great opportunity to integrate yourself into the school really thoroughly! The downside is, if you don’t really like your school, there are no visit schools to serve as a respite
The difference is your CO, of course. But the working terms and conditions are roughly the same.
Private schools have more freedom in their course designs, which can be interesting to see, perhaps.
Just look up the school website and see what kind of place it is.
Working at a public school makes you a civil servant, usually that comes with some stricter restrictions from your CO. A private school means you’re just an employee at that school. usually that means more freedom but it entirely depends on your CO.
The big difference would be that you’re only working at one school if you have a private school vs the possible multiple schools at the public schools. At the end of the day, it’s going to be ESID as a big part of the JET experience is dependent on how the CO decides to handle you especially when it comes to a private school.
Private school gives you the chance of less strict rules about holiday, and it means you have 1 school, which is incredibly lucky.
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I’m going to just assume you are placed in Tokyo. If not, disregard this:
Tokyo public school JETs work 16 days a month, but have to come in during summer/winter unless they use paid leave. Private school JETs “usually” get those times off, but because your employer is the school and not a larger BOE, every private school contract is going to be different.
In terms of actual duties, that can also vary. In most schools, you’ll be working as an assistant like most JETs, either with a Japanese teacher, or with a native teacher (like the 2 JETs function at my school), or you may be given more responsibility, possibly up to fully planning and teaching lessons every day. My co-JET and I had 17 classes a week and were responsible for all curriculum and tests.
I knew a girl who worked at a private school in Hokkaido. From what she said it seemed to be more or less the same as everybody else, except for the fact that she didn’t have any visit schools, so she was at the one school the whole time. That can be a really great opportunity to integrate yourself into the school really thoroughly! The downside is, if you don’t really like your school, there are no visit schools to serve as a respite
The difference is your CO, of course. But the working terms and conditions are roughly the same.
Private schools have more freedom in their course designs, which can be interesting to see, perhaps.
Just look up the school website and see what kind of place it is.
Working at a public school makes you a civil servant, usually that comes with some stricter restrictions from your CO.
A private school means you’re just an employee at that school. usually that means more freedom but it entirely depends on your CO.
The big difference would be that you’re only working at one school if you have a private school vs the possible multiple schools at the public schools. At the end of the day, it’s going to be ESID as a big part of the JET experience is dependent on how the CO decides to handle you especially when it comes to a private school.
Private school gives you the chance of less strict rules about holiday, and it means you have 1 school, which is incredibly lucky.