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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
Ah. Bulldogs, in Athens. Been there a few times when I lived in Atlanta. More of a GT fan myself though...
What we had there was a semantic miscommunication. What you speak of is what I would call a teaching attempt and sadly, Japanese companies will indeed allow, with the right paperwork, any English speaking individual to attempt teaching. This is usually a degree necessary for the visa, but plenty of companies hire individuals with only spouse visas. Some aren't even native speakers. Japanese ability isn't usually necessary at all.
It's possible to teach younger students without teaching credentials/experience because of internalisation, but if it was possible to teach older students without teaching experience Japanese Teachers of English would not exist. A native speaker would simply be able to handle a classroom entirely by him or herself regardless of what their degree (or whether they have one) was in. With my experience teaching alone at the junior high school level, I am pretty sure that most individuals, even with degrees, could not teach grammar construction in English, let alone in Japanese (which I have done, and continue to do on a regular basis).
I'm not arguing with you, you obviously agree with me, I am just clarifying for understanding.
Momomaggie, good on you! Just the type of people we NEED in Japan are passionate and caring teachers. Like you, this is my career, and it is what I went to school for.
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oh yea i wasnt arguing with you either, i can tell an intelligent person when i see one, and clearly you are, i just wanted to clarify what i had meant. yea uga was str8, not enough black ppl tho, lol my older brother went there too and he was going to harvard BUT he ran out of money and he didnt want to take a student loan in this economy not to mention a scholarship wouldnt be enough to handle that expensive ass school, i was shocked to see he was qualified to get in tho, he had a 3.8 at uga but i didnt know that was good enough, i guess it was his extracurricular things that got him in...but yea, teaching is a hard job, ppl dont realize that teachers are the ones that make sure that your lives are easier...i used to think any could teach as long as you had a clear understanding of the material until i got to 9th grade and my geometry teacher couldnt teach worth a damn and i pretty much had to learn everything on my own, but i've had some teachers that made the material easy like my ap physics teacher, teachers like them ill never forget, its hard work! i remember having to teach 9th graders when i was in 12th how to use auto CAD for drafting, i had a headache after that day lol.
and i HATE ga tech, ha and uga really, but uga opens the door for me to be able to go to other schools.