Jobs at Smith's

We are a Japan-based English franchise school system. If you want a job teaching English in Japan, you're in the right place. We need English teachers to teach in Japan. Thank you for showing an interest in offering your services to our franchise English school system. Several of our English school franchises are looking for teachers today. They seek teachers in Japan for a number of positive reasons. For the most part they need English teachers to expand their business. The majority of our English schools are owned by English teachers. I am sure you will enjoy a working environment that has been built with teaching English in mind, for teachers, by teachers. Full training is provided.

Please fill out the form below and submit it. None of the fields are compulsory. I can't stand those kind of forms myself. Provide us with as much information about yourself as you wish. It's up to you. The more you tell us of your needs and desires the better we will be able to place you in one of our English schools.I personally guarantee we will read every application.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Smith

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Here is what Michael Winfield, Smith School teacher / coach thinks about Smith Schools.

The Job Itself by a teacher.

No changes have been made to Derek's words.

The job itself written by Derek Maeckelburg. Formerly a Smith's part time teacher and present day owner of Tsukaguchi franchise.

Teaching English, Training

I was given thorough, high quality teacher training when I entered the Smith's system. I was also taught all the administrative aspects of running a franchise school. At first I just wanted a job teaching English in Japan but the more I got into it the more I liked it.

During the training were taught that we do not call ourselves " teachers." We call ourselves coaches of communicative confidence (C.C.C). Although we are teaching English to our students, our main goal is to teach them to communicate in English with confidence. This of course differs from focusing on having them formulate perfectly correct sentences. We want them to talk. Doesn't matter if it's a bit messy. Today more than 60% of the worlds spoken English is spoken between non-native speakers. They need to get meaning across. The key to our coaching approach is eliciting questions and answers from the students. We keep the teacher talking time (T.T.T.) as low as possible (not more than 30%) and the student talking time (S.S.T.) as high as possible (at least 70%). This approach is designed to make the students do most of the talking during their lesson time.

The Smith`s Curriculum

The Smith's curriculum is a course of study designed to provide a framework and direction for students and a commonality between coaches. Teachers know what they are doing and students know what to expect. It is designed for teaching English in Japan.

Most students like to see that they are following some kind of curriculum, which provides direction yet doesn't control. When the coach uses the curriculum, the students can SEE their progress, making them feel like they're moving forward and improving their English. The material in the curriculum increases in difficulty as the student advances but is built in such a way that material taught earlier is incorporated into later lessons, making students continually review what was taught earlier. Regards teaching English in Japan it can be said that in many cases review is sadly lacking. To us it is very important.

Commonality between coaches is important when more than one teacher teaches the same student. The curriculum is built in such a way that the next teacher who teaches the same student knows exactly what was done the last lesson and what has (or has not) been taught yet. They make this apparent to the student by first reviewing the last lesson`s material. This lets the student know that although the teacher`s face may change, the next teacher knows exactly what was done before. In other words, the teacher changes but the material doesn`t.

The Lessons

Lesson sizes vary between one and three students. I like this because it lets students get to speak a lot and the small size makes the lessons more intimate. All lessons are 45 minutes long and scheduled on the hour. This means that I have a 15 minute break in between lessons, which is very nice.

The Smith's School of English curriculum is structured in such a way that virtually no lesson planning time is needed. I simply open up my student file, and in seconds, I can see what was done last lesson, and what has and hasn't been taught to the student. So my "lesson planning" is done in seconds. That means my 15 minute break really IS a break.

Teaching English in Japan is a ball. If you do decide to join Smith's you will enjoy it. The money is fine but the job is great!

Derek