Around 80 percent of teachers in Japanese language classes offered by local governments are volunteers, a national survey ...

In the same way as I have worked with some brilliant ALTs – and conversely a number of freeloaders who shouldn’t be going anywhere near a classroom – I’ve noticed a similarly huge variation in the ...

In the same way as I have worked with some brilliant ALTs – and conversely a number of freeloaders who shouldn’t be going anywhere near a classroom – I’ve noticed a similarly huge variation in the ...

The Japan Times recently reported that third-year junior high school students were struggling with aspects of English in a nationwide achievement test conducted this year by the education ministry ...

On the JET Program, I worked at an education center in Japan, where I led teacher training sessions, wrote and edited a book on teaching communicative English, and taught in the classroom with a ...

Regarding the July 8 Kyodo article "Japanese English teachers leave for U.S. looking to broaden horizons": This half-year teacher training program is an encouraging, and ridiculously long overdue ...

The board ultimately decided to add the Japanese position to maintain the program within the district’s schools, and the English teacher position at Monmouth Academy to have three full-time ...