Full-time English teacher

Job Requirements

• Must have Native-level English. Japanese skill is helpful, but not required since the staff speak English.
• Must have a valid work visa for Japan. We will sponsor renewal or change of visa type, but no overseas applicants.

Job Description

About the position

• About 70% of our students are elementary-aged kids. You need to love kids, but we also do not teach children in diapers without their parents so you never need to change a diaper.
• We allow the common-sense use of Japanese by teachers. If someone is being disruptive, you can switch into Japanese mode and lecture the heck out of them. Kick them out of the class if needed, and address it with the parent after class. Since we are a small school, most of our teaching 'policy' follows this common-sense mentality. We don't want to babysit you, and if you just act with the mentality of doing what you think is best for the class, we won't need to. Also accordingly, if you get a particularly disruptive kid who is making the class environment worse, talk to us and we will sort out a solution together, even if it ends up forcing the student to quit.
• You will be provided a curriculum daily for most classes. Ex; Lesson 24, cover these 2 slides and this page is the homework. You will be given sample videos, explanations, and recommendations (created by other teachers who have done this before) on how to do fun activities in order to elicit the target language output from students. These are just there to guide you or provide help to inexperienced teachers. If the students are enjoying class safely, speaking English, and meeting the yearly learning goals, anything goes. Follow your own style, or follow the recommended way, up to you. Training is also provided, and will probably (depending on when you start and your experience) last around a month.

Details

• Hours: 5 days, 40 hours per week, Sundays + One other regular weekday off
• Weekdays 12pm-9pm,  Saturday 8am-5pm. Flexible lunchtime + minimum 1 hour of preparation time daily
• Start date Feb/March/April 2025 (flexible)
• Prefer experience with children and/or innovative/creative applicants.

Interview flow- Provide a CV when applying> if selected, 1st remote interview, >2nd interview in person and short demonstration lesson. Experienced teachers are be able to substitute videos in lieu of the demonstration.

Benefits

• Total yearly compensation is 3,250,000JPY for the first year. We will enroll you in Japan's social insurance system.
• We offer a yearly bonus based on contribution and profit-sharing of extracurricular events.
• We also have a very generous holiday structure, with only 210 lesson days per year.