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⌈ Secret Post #2315 ⌋

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[silverau]

Oh, awesome. Where did you go?

Hah, well they won't have to worry about me conversing with students in English either way. I have a horrible habit of lapsing into English even when I'm trying to practice Japanese. 'xD But I'm really good at English grammar and my major is TESOL, and I'm planning to do some volunteer teaching abroad things before I even apply for a paid job, so hopefully English and teaching skills won't be an issue.

Anyway, thanks for the info and thanks for the good luck. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Ishikawa. It's across the main island from Tokyo and fairly rural. It's also right up against the Sea of Japan, so it got crazy amounts of snow. The crab there was to die for, though.

Majoring in TESOL should give you a leg up! Having hands-on teaching experience, especially abroad, definitely won't hurt, either.

The teaching experience will also be useful if you get a spot in JET, since the program can be a bit balls at actually training people. When I was there, we had a 3-day training session in Tokyo with a bunch of different seminars about teaching, and then they just sent you off to your schools and you kind of just figured things out through trial and error. I think the logic was that schools differed (and the expectations for ALTs really could differ a lot between schools), so it was best to leave it up to individual schools and people's supervisors to get them acclimated. There were some schools with really pro-active English teachers that helped their ALTs out or that had more than one ALT, so there was already a veteran there to teach the newbie, but that wasn't always the case. In most cases, you just had to kind of hit the ground running. It was still a really awesome experience and I enjoyed it a lot, but it can be a bit overwhelming and/or frustrating trying to figure things out on your own as you go. So the experience with teaching and lesson planning, etc, would definitely be useful!

You're welcome. :)