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konyoku
Joined: 09 Sep 2005
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 Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject: Part-time University Work |
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Hi everyone. I'm a long-time lurk, addict and groupie of the
CAFE. I've just a quick question or two concerning part-time university work.
I'm presently employed part-time with a high school in the greater Tokyo area and would like to begin looking for a part-time university gig just one day a week.
I have an M.A. in Japanese Studies.
My questions are: When is the best time to begin a job search for an April start? Is there a list of universities/colleges for the Kanagawa region? And, is it best to lodge an application in person?
All replies are welcome. And thank you in advance. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: Part-time University Work |
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| konyoku wrote: |
HiI have an M.A. in Japanese Studies.
My questions are: When is the best time to begin a job search for an April start? Is there a list of universities/colleges for the Kanagawa region? And, is it best to lodge an application in person?
All replies are welcome. And thank you in advance. |
1. Universities hire around December or January for their April classes. You get the occasional one in March when some one quits before term starts but those are rare
2. Cold calling is not recommended as they get hundreds of applicants. You may get lucky though. I know someone who sent out over 100 resumes in Kanto and got two college jobs out of it. Count of 50 resumes for every one job. Best is to respond to an advertisement or get a referral.
http://jrecin.jst.go.jp
http://jacet.org
http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/jobs/
The JALT Language Teacher job page (must be a member of JALT to access page)
personal recommendations have worked best for me.
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freddie's friend daniel
Joined: 17 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Universities are already starting to hire for next April, at least down here in Kansai. Get those applications out now! |
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Glenski
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| Universities hire around December or January for their April classes. |
As freddie's friend daniel wrote, the job ads have already started circulating. I've seen some posted on the 3 sites that Paul cited as early as July this year. So, they may advertise that early and conduct interviews before fall, but perhaps final decisions are made in late fall or early winter. Don't know for sure. I'm looking into such jobs myself. |
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konyoku
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, Paul for the leads, and to everyone else as well for your tips.
Much obliged. |
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sushi
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| How`s the paye for a university gig here in Japan? I have worked at a university in Korea, and didn`t get much more better paye than the regular academies. The upside though were the long paid vacations (4 to 5 months), and the small teaching load. Sometimes as low as 13 hours a week. Most of us did camps in the winter and summer and part time work as well, to supplement our incomes. |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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1997 Kansai Area Teacher Salary Scales
courtesy Michael "Rube" Redfield
Osaka University of Economics
The following is the 1997 Kansai area college teacher salary scale, complied by the Kansai Private Universities Labor Union. The three highest paying schools are listed at the top of each table, the thirty school average in the middle, and the three lowest paying colleges at the bottom. The yearly salary includes all bonuses but does not include additional sources of revenue, such as research budgets and travel allowances.
[Ed's Note: these salary scales apply to Japanese (and assumedly non-Japanese) tenured faculty.]
Table 1. These figures are for 24 year old, single instructors (joshu).
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Kobe Gakuin University 6,554,438
# 2 Osaka Electo-Comuni. U. 5,615,700
# 3 Otemon Gakuin U. 5,578,020
23 School Average 5,021,548
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Osaka Tech/Setsunan U. 4,597,880
# 2 Osaka Women's Gakuen JC 4,480,226
# 1 Hagoromo Junior Col. 4,131,600
Table 2. These figures are for 30 year old Assistant Professors (koushi), married, with one child.
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Kobe Gakuin University 8,972,452
# 2 Kansai University 7,994,490
# 3 Kinki University 7,614,510
26 School Average 7,299,799
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Osaka Women's Gakuen JC 6,690,234
# 2 Osaka College of Music 6,669,400
# 1 Osaka Chiyoda JC 5,995,466
Table 3. These figures are for 35 year old Associate Professors (jokyouju), married with two children.
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Kobe Gakuin University 10,472,725
# 2 Kansai University 9,737,330
# 3 Momoyama Gakuin U. 9,611,875
26 School Average 8,653,140
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Hagaromo Junior Col. 8,110,200
# 2 Osaka College of Music 7,991,760
# 1 Osaka Chiyoda JC 7,330,242
Table 4. These figures are for 40 year old Associate Professors (jokyoju), married with two children.
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Kobe Gakuin University 11,120,783
# 2 Kinki University 11,034,225
# 3 Momoyama Gakuin U. 11,020,240
26 School Average 10,085,578
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Baika Women's College 9,313,290
# 2 Osaka Art U/Naniwa JC 9,123,725
# 1 Osaka Choyoda JC 8,468,184
Table 5. These figures are for 45 year old full Professors (kyouju), married with two children
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Kobe Gakuin University 13,039,337
# 2 Kinki University 12,426,304
# 3 Osaka Seikei Junior Col. 12,288,205
26 School Average 11,476,637
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Baika Women's College 10,594,453
# 2 Shukugawa Jr. College 9,917,455
# 1 Osaka Choyoda JC 9,743,543
Table 6. These figures are for 50 year old Professors (kyouju), married with two children.
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Kobe Gakuin University 13,829,743
# 2 Kinki University 13,663,151
# 3 Osaka U. of Economics 13,452,500
26 School Average 12,531,313
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Osaka Art U/Naniwa JC 11,420,215
# 2 Shukugawa Jr. College 11,102,695
# 1 Osaka Choyoda JC 10,627,802
Table 7. These figures are for 55 year old Professors (kyouju), married with one dependent child.
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Kobe Gakuin University 14,329,834
# 2 Osaka Dental College 14,305,510
# 3 Kinki University 14,188,492
26 School Average 13,228,170
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Osaka Women's Gakuen JC 12,267,544
# 2 Shukugawa Jr. College 12,096,940
# 1 Osaka Choyoda JC 11,114,801
Table 8. These are the figures for 60 year old Professors (kyouju), married with no dependent children.
Salary Scale / University name / Yearly salary in Japanese yen
TOP THREE
# 1 Osaka Dental College 15,436,390
# 2 Kobe Gakuin University 14,659,482
# 3 Kinki University 14,494,508
36 School Average 13,623,467
BOTTOM THREE
# 3 Osaka U of Law&Economics 12,569,800
# 2 Osaka Women's Gakuen JC 12,547,426
# 1 Osaka Choyoda JC 11,119,715
Rube Redfield is an educator at the Osaka University |
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sushi
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| How about Foreign English teachers at Universities here. Non tenured with maybe renewable contracts that are negotiated for every year |
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PAULH
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| sushi wrote: |
| How about Foreign English teachers at Universities here. Non tenured with maybe renewable contracts that are negotiated for every year |
Sushi, don't want to get on your case at all, but what about them?
Speaking from experience even a 3 year contract is too short, and a one year contract you will be looking around for another job a couple of months after starting and getting used to the place. It took me six months to learn where everything is and how things work. 2nd year is smooth sailing and 3 rd year you are job hunting again.
1 year full time contracts are great for getting your foot in the door and experience but you will most people who have spent six years at university want a little more than a one year contract.
Contracts in my experience are not negotiated at universities, they look at what you have done over the last year and decide if they will renew or not. Usually its automatic but haggling for position or better pay rarely occurs. Take it or leave is the name of the game. |
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sushi
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I would assume that you guys at universities are teaching English conversation. Might there by chance be anyone teaching other subjects in a non tenured position, and what are the chances for a foreigener to get a tenured position.
Met a guy from the U.S. who actually taught mathematics in a non tenured position at a university in Korea, but then mathematics is a universal language. You can learn it and teach it, it seems in any language you want.
For you guys teaching English conversation in Japanese universities, how is the standard of your students. Are they at least interested in English or are you basically talking to the air and the wall while your students look out the windows? |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| sushi wrote: |
I would assume that you guys at universities are teaching English conversation. Might there by chance be anyone teaching other subjects in a non tenured position, and what are the chances for a foreigener to get a tenured position.
Met a guy from the U.S. who actually taught mathematics in a non tenured position at a university in Korea, but then mathematics is a universal language. You can learn it and teach it, it seems in any language you want.
For you guys teaching English conversation in Japanese universities, how is the standard of your students. Are they at least interested in English or are you basically talking to the air and the wall while your students look out the windows? |
Sushi, actually half of the courses I teach are not conversation. I also am not tenured, no one is where I teach, foreigners that is).
BTW the standard of English is really low. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:46 am Post subject: |
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| sushi wrote: |
I would assume that you guys at universities are teaching English conversation. Might there by chance be anyone teaching other subjects in a non tenured position, and what are the chances for a foreigener to get a tenured position.
Met a guy from the U.S. who actually taught mathematics in a non tenured position at a university in Korea, but then mathematics is a universal language. You can learn it and teach it, it seems in any language you want.
For you guys teaching English conversation in Japanese universities, how is the standard of your students. Are they at least interested in English or are you basically talking to the air and the wall while your students look out the windows? |
I am teaching a variety of classes this year: TOIEC, reading, listening class, this term I teach a Business content class to business students.
If you dont have a phD, relevant college teaching experience, referreed publications, japanese ability (recommended but not mandatory) your chances are about nil. Connections also help too.
level varies but in terms of ability most are quite low, false beginners with a TOEIC score of around 350, or about 200 on the TOEFL.
Your question whether they are interested is a bit of a loaded question. Most have 6 years of grammar based instruction at high school, passed a difficult written test but still can not speak English.The majority have given up on trying to learn English, and to be honest there is no need for Japanese to learn Englsih where 99.9% of the population speaks Japanese. Japanese dont need English in their daily lives. English majors like English but for the most part are frustrated that they have little speaking or productive skillls after 6 years just to pass an exam. Non English majors by and large are less motivated but need to study English in order to graduate. I have taught engineerings and architecture students and had a lot of fun with them. Keep lessons on their level, get them seeing achievements even at a low level, make lessons relevant to their lives and you will get students eating out of your hand. Throw in the threat of a failing grade and you will get them working for you.
So its not a matter or them being interested, but keeping students motivated, pumped up, making them understand why they are doing it, and keeping the lesson of suficient interest to them that they keep coming back. If you are a dull and uninspiring teacher students will rise up in revolt. They wont come back if you dont make it interesting and motivating for them. that is the teachers job. You have them for a year, you may as well get through it as painlessly and enjoyably as possible even if some dont like English. remember, they dont have to like English but they need the credit. your goals are not the same as theirs. Students will do the bare minimum to pass while those who like English will make the effort.
I dont waste time with students who sleep during class and play with their mobile phones. i fail them and they come back next year. You cant make them study but you can motivate them enough to do the effort to pass and do some work.
Students will look out the windows if you are incompetent and don't know what you are doing or watching paint dry is more interesting than your teaching.
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sushi
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It`s about what I figured. You will probably get a few students who are interested in English, and that won`t have come from their highschools. Highschools here basically put em off English for life. The way it`s taught that is. The rest of the students will just count the minutes and the hours until the course is over with.
Maybe you will find the odd one or two who can write very well, but hasn`t the desire, confidence or maybe know how to speak. They will be the ones who maybe found it an intellectual exercise to sus out the nuances of English grammar or what have you, and they will go on to be excellent teachers in Japanese of the lingua franca (English)
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PAULH
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| sushi wrote: |
It`s about what I figured. You will probably get a few students who are interested in English, and that won`t have come from their highschools. Highschools here basically put em off English for life. The way it`s taught that is. The rest of the students will just count the minutes and the hours until the course is over with.
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At our school we have Japanese and foreigners teach English. the Japanese teach literature and we teach oral communication. For the majority the students have never been taught by a foreigner except a JET or ALT (in HS the main and only goal is to pass the entrance exam, here its not) . First time with a gaijin with no Japanese teacher or team teaching. Our teaching methods are different from high school and the majority of students enjoy a foreign teachers class because they get to hear real english. they may be put off by we show them that there are other ways of learning english and that its possible to learn to speak English. You cant expect much in only 30 weeks of lessons though.
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| IMaybe you will find the odd one or two who can write very well, but hasn`t the desire, confidence or maybe know how to speak. They will be the ones who maybe found it an intellectual exercise to sus out the nuances of English grammar or what have you, and they will?go on to be excellent teachers in Japanese of the lingua franca. |
Writing well is a relative term- most can read and write OK but i wouldnt call it well. Most can not construct a paragraph or write with cohesion. they are taught this strange grammatical sentence syntax from their Japanese teachers for use in the entrance exams. They dont knwo how to speak becuase no one has ever taught them. its like someone giving you the keys to dads car at 14 without being shown how to drive, although you know how the engine works. You can tune a piano but dont know how to play it. Same with English.
The rest of your paragraph I have no idea what you are getting at.
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sushi
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Hey come on man. You got your top tier universities where competence and hard work has dividends with most of the students, but your still gonna get your slugs no matter how good you are or how good you think you are.
Then again you got your universities with the rejects. What do you do there?
If you are over qualified you will avoid such places like the plague.
Your right about the way they are taught. They are taught how to pass the exams, and that means studying for clues in the construct of sentences that might be in the exam. The grammatical form and correctness is irrrelevant. Recognition of words and phrases and knowing the mind of the writer of the questions is where they spend their time at 3rd year in highschool.
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