Because there's no better way to start the year than with a question about teaching English in Japan, right?
On a more serious note, I'm in a bit of a jam right now in that I genuinely want to become a public school teacher somewhere, but the English teaching gods seem bent on making my life as hard as they possibly can.
I was going over the legislation %20The%20applicant%20must%20have,he%2Fshe%20intends%20to%20provide)surrounding the Instructor visa and found that there's a criterion (b) that I couldn't possibly meet.
(b) If the applicant intends to teach a foreign language, he/she must have 12 years or more of education in that foreign language, or if the applicant intends to teach other subjects, he/she must have five years or more of work experience in the education of that subject at an educational institution.
As far as immigration is concerned, I'm not a native English speaker because I hold neither a passport from an English-speaking country nor did I go to an English-speaking school growing up (the 12-year requirement).
When I asked Gemini about this, however, it told me that I could circumvent all of this by going to grad school in Japan for teacher training. According to the AI, the nationality/education requirement for the Instructor visa is only relevant if you don't have a teaching license, which you can get by passing the examination that national teachers are also required to take at the end of their master's.
Does anyone know whether or not that's actually the case? Can a non-native English speaker get a master's in teaching English at a Japanese university, apply and take the necessary exams for a teaching license, and then, once properly licensed, apply for English teaching positions at public schools regardless of nationality or K-12 schooling?
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