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Miyazaki
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| ghostrider wrote: |
Think you have it backwards. |
Don't think too much.
Thinking in eikaiwa only gets you into trouble. |
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Symphany
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Don't think too much.
Thinking in eikaiwa only gets you into trouble |
I thought Westgate was an Eikawa?? |
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Glenski
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Westgate is more like a dispatch agency. Look at their web site.
www.westgate.co.jp |
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ghostrider
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I don't work in eikaiwa.
Dispatch agencies usually don't control lesson plans and usually just act as a middle-man between a school and an ALT. The ALT works with the other teachers, not for a private company on school campus that students pay extra to use. |
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Glenski
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| If you work for a dispatch agency, you are precisely working for a private company, ghostrider, no matter how your "coworkers" are on campus. Beware of thinking otherwise. |
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Symphany
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Westgate is more like a dispatch agency. Look at their web site.
www.westgate.co.jp |
I once applied for Westgate and got fed up with their tedious application process. They seemed to want my life story and three references before I even knew I had the job. I'm aware of how they generally work. The point I was trying to make wasn't that Westgate is literally an Eikawa, but rather, that as you pointed out in the above post, that it is a private company and not that much higher up than an Eikawa, if that can even be said. |
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ripslyme
Joined: 29 Jan 2005
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Dang, how did the Westgate conversation bleed into this one?! This thread is about teachers, not Professors!  |
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elamericano
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I once applied for Westgate and got fed up with their tedious application process. They seemed to want my life story and three references before I even knew I had the job. |
The teaching-related questions on their current online app. are grammatically incorrect, some of them appallingly so. I think that was one of the tipping points where I decided to pursue a master's degree.
Samples: "Given the speaking and listening nature of our program, what are some activities that you would do for reinforcing problems with stress in a sentence?"
"In a sample class, you are using a dialogue to teach a situation context. You are teaching clarification language. For example, Can you repeat that? Can you create a 4 sentence dialogue between two people illustrating how to clarify a misunderstanding?"
Can I create a dialog? Sure. Would you like to see the dialog I create?  |
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Miyazaki
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Location: My Father's Yacht
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| It's going to be really nice when those 5 year visas start coming out. Anyone get one yet? |
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Glenski
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| Why would they, Miyazaki? It was in the newspapers only recently as an announcement that the MOJ is considering it, not that they have established it. |
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ripslyme
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Back in Japan - let the teaching commence!  |
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