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A teacher who works for an eikaiwa in our area spends an average of 2 hours on a train everyday.ĪLT schedules are very regular and follow the public school schedule, outside of a few days where you will have to travel for training held at a central location. The schedule at an eikaiwa school may also require travel, over night stays and significant commutes if you are in a rural area. A good example would be working in a preschool setting in the morning and then teaching adults at night. They may also split the eight hour workday with 3 to 4 hours in the morning and then 3 to 4 hours at night. To meet their customers needs, classes are typically held from 1PM to 10PM. Eikaiwa school clientele are generally available outside of normal school or working hours.

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The work schedule for full time will be roughly 8 to 9 hour days, five days a week. Most of the eikaiwa contracts will grant you seven to ten days of paid vacation a year, although there are smaller eikaiwa schools that may offer better benefits. Round 1 – SCHEDULE: The biggest difference between eikaiwa and public school ALT is the schedule. All that aside, we feel like we made the best decision possible for us. Most of the public school hiring takes place in March/April for Japan so we signed on with a company that was hiring for that time. (You can pause here to rap the Fresh Prince song). We were on a tight timeline since we had already left our jobs and were living in the pool house like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Many of the larger eikawa schools like AEON, Gaba and Berlitz have long application processes (so does the JET program but I’ll get to that later). We chose to be ALT’s but not because we actually made an informed decision. Creative, no? JET is the only government sponsored English teaching program in Japan.ĪLT Dispatch: These are a group of companies ( Interac, Joytalk, RCS, Heart, Altia and some other smaller regional ones) that basically offer an alternative to the government run JET program. People who work in the JET program are called, JET-ALTs. JET: Japanese Exchange and Teaching program. Also some contracts with public schools allow for the ALT to run the class on their own in junior high or high school. In elementary school you maybe running the class yourself but there will be a JTE present. Your partner for all classes in junior high school and high school. There are some ALT’s at private schools, but those jobs are few and far between and usually require Japanese language skills. Works in a public school and assists JTEs in class with activities, pronunciation and test prep. Students may be anywhere from preschool age to working adults trying to improve their English.ĪLT: Assistant Language Teacher. Classes are taught in supplement to public school English. GaijinPot and Dave’s ESL Cafe are probably the best resources for smaller eikaiwa school jobs. They can range from small local shops to national chains. Examples of large eikaiwa schools are Gaba, AEON, ECC, COCO Juku, and Berlitz. Like any good teacher, I’m going to introduce some vocabulary before we get to the meat of the lesson:Įikaiwa school: Privately owned English schools in Japan. However, don’t put the cart before the horse. Here is a detailed post of a “day in the life” of an ALT (COMING SOON!!) and a separate post about what to expect as an ALT. We signed up to be ALT’s with an ALT dispatch company. The pay was better in Japan and we could leave sooner, so Japan it was. Since I was denied entry in to South Korea on a teaching visa because of my “criminal” record, our decision came down to Japan and Taiwan. Look at the exchange rate for the Vietnamese Dong to the Euro or US dollar, it’s insane. Vietnam is still a communist country rife with corruption, and the money you save there may not be worth anything when you leave. Thailand, while many enjoy the life style, doesn’t pay as much. If you go back read my “How to teach English in Korea” post you will know that as an American there are a lot of hoops to jump through but they may be worth it if you have the time. Since we passed on the idea of working in Saudi Arabia or UAE we narrowed our list down to 5 countries. When we were looking at teaching overseas we had done research into several Asian countries because the pay is the best for teachers in Asia and the Middle East.