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Sweetsee
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I hear you now Glenski, so slow...I know.
Thanks Space, like you I have always had total control over my lessons.
Nice name.
Enjoy,
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Glenski
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What is the longest an ALT has woked full time in a private senior high school that you know of?
2 years full time Saitama, me.
7 or 8 years full time Saitama, guy I met.
Just wondering how stacked the odds are against me. |
"Clarification" by Sweetsee:
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| Started this thread because I want to know how others cope in the long term within a money machine: are they able to overcome the alienation, accept the status quo, find their pace? |
Looks like two totally different questions to me. |
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Sweetsee
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:36 am Post subject: |
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I appreciate that Glenski thanks, honestly.
Clarification of Glenski's clarification of my "clarification": want to meet ALTs to discuss jobs.
Thanks again Glenski,
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abufletcher
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| But I can do pretty much what I like with class, invlove the JTE however much I feel. |
I imagine this level of control is still just "relative" to other ALTs. For example, are you also responsible for all classroom management including assessment and grades? It's hard to have autonomous control of a class without control over assessment. |
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Sweetsee
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Glenski
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Sweetsee,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it you who, about a year ago, wrote that you had changed from being an ALT (after about 10 years) to a full-time teacher at your school? |
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Sweetsee
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abufletcher
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| Is it possible for a non-Japanese without a Japanese teaching licence to be a "full time teacher" at a Japanese public or private secondary school? |
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Glenski
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| I don't think so, abufletcher. I work at a private HS, and it is mandatory. I am under the belief that it is even stricter at public HS's. That is, I got my license just by filing translations of my degrees and courses with the BOE, but I think public HS licenses require the teacher to take an exam. |
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Sweetsee
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| I agree with Glenski. |
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space
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| abufletcher wrote: |
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| But I can do pretty much what I like with class, invlove the JTE however much I feel. |
I imagine this level of control is still just "relative" to other ALTs. For example, are you also responsible for all classroom management including assessment and grades? It's hard to have autonomous control of a class without control over assessment. |
Good call. I don't do any of that. And even if I give oral type exams with the students the teacher make the parameters (tho I would still do the individual evaluations)
So my level of control doesn't extend past the actual classroom its self. I don't do much long term planning with the JTEs either, other than throwing some fresh ideas out when I think of them, saying, "oh let's do this sometime."
However one of my friends who teaches at a high school is responsible for... way too much. The JTEs have made him (usually solely) responsible for long term lesson planning, something that seems to be their job. In some cases this could be welcome, but his situation is less than plesant. |
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abufletcher
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Aye, there's the rub. With greater control (also known as "freedom") comes greater responsibility.
Still no one wants to have to do it all which is why most teachers are happy to work to a curriculum set by someone else - at least until that point in your career when you begin to realize that a lot of the people who are making curriculum decisions haven't got a clue about the true nature of either language or language learning.
Having to go back to teaching a "page-turner" course with a mindless book like New Horizons or Sunshine would be a living death to me now. But it's all just part of the path most EFL teachers follow over their career.
Again, I wouldn't want to stay in an ALT job for long -- and in fact, as I've said elsewhere, it's often extremely difficult to continue with personal growth and development if you allow your teaching to be restrict (long-term) by the institutional (and largely unchangeable) realities in one particular country.
The EFL profession is much larger than any one country.
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abufletcher
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Oops.
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abufletcher
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Oops.
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