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Kovno · Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

Hello everyone.

I am currently in my second year of teaching in Japan. I am an ELT. I work in a Junior High School with Japanese English teachers. It is very similar to the JET scheme. I am finding the Japanese education system perplexing and very frustrating. Anyone who has taught in Japan will know why.

Anyway, I am looking to move elsewhere in the summer. Despite the frustrations I enjoy working in a state school. I am a newly qualified teacher in England, so I have a PGCE, but I I don't have a TEFL.

My question is, what other countries place native speakers in schools? I don't particularly want to work for a private language school, but Japan and China seem to be the only countries where this sort of work is available. Any suggestions? A country with a progressive education system would be a nice bonus.

Thanks in advance...

moot point · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 441

How about Taiwan?

wix · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 250 Location: Earth

Hong Kong has the NET Program. Although the deadline for applications has passed I am told they are still accepting them.

Taiwan has/had a program to recruit qualified teachers to work in government schools. The program failed to recruit many teachers and I am not sure if it is still operating.

Thailand has plenty of jobs going in government schools, usually in English Programs. You don't even need a B.Ed./Dip.Ed. to work in these, only a degree. Pay is pretty poor though. And I don't think Thailand's education system can be considered very progressive by any standards.