What does it mean to be part of the IAC teaching team?
It means to be a part of a group of teachers from around the world working
together to facilitate language skills and cultural understanding to Japanese
students ages ranging from 2 to 80. It means constantly increasing your knowledge
and abilities as a language facilitator. It means to use this knowledge along
with your experience and pass it on to others so as our students can continue
to not only improve their English ability, but to actually increase their
international understanding. It means to an active part of one of the best
EFL teaching teams in Japan
What
it doesn’t
mean to be part of the IAC teaching team.
There are a lot of myths out there with regards to EFL teaching.
“ If you’re a native English speaker, you are
automatically an English teacher”
Very untrue… teaching English is a
skill. An instructor must not only know how to speak the language and
how the language is put together, she must
also know how that language is learned by different types of learners;
classroom management, understanding classroom dynamics, level assessment,
goal assessment,
to name a few.
“ English Teachers get paid crazy salaries for hardly any
work”
The
days of getting paid “crazy” salary for doing nothing more
than looking like a stereotypical “gaijin” have been
gone since the burst of the economic bubble. TEFL is a highly respected
field, and as
the importance of English as a means of communication is becoming
increasingly important. The standards set for the instructors are
consequently getting higher
and higher.
It is not a prerequisite to be “God’s gift” to the TEFL profession,
but it is necessary that you are sincere in your motivations. It is important
that you are flexible in your thinking, excited to learn new ideas and when
necessary, think outside of the box a little. We are looking for instructors
to not only learn and be successful teaching our curricula and teaching style,
but add their own ideas and style to the mix.
