Teaching Jobs

Title

Part Time Japanese Teacher

Dear Asia is the premium school for Asian languages and cultures in London. We offer language training and cultural workshops to professionals, companies, and culture enthusiasts. Our key languages are Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. As a professional event organizer, we also host food tasting, calligraphy, embroidery, origami workshops, and other exciting team building events for companies. Our aim is to promote positive representation of ESEA (East Asia & South East Asia) Cultures and build a community to celebrate our heritage - languages, food, crafts, and more. Teachers are at the heart of everything we do, all Dear Asia team members are teachers ourselves. We want our school to be an open, fair, professional and friendly place to work for all teachers.

Qualifications and Skills
Fluent in Japanese & English
Full rights to work in the UK with a minimum of one year legal stay
Willingness to commit medium to long term as a freelancer teacher
Academic excellence in education, psychology or linguistic degree
Strong knowledge in language acquisition theory and practice
1 years plus teaching experience in Teaching Japanese

Benefits
Competitive hourly rate + bonus
Head office support and teacher training
Team up with a group of other professional teachers

Teaching responsibilities
Represent Dear Asia to teach group lessons over evening and/or weekends at our centre; private lessons in our centre or within London Zone 1-3; and corporate training lessons during normal office hours
Prepare well each lesson in your own time is essential
Report in to head office with timely feedbacks from students or clients
Help each and every student under your responsibility

Admin responsibilities
Manage a working calendar with updated availability and lessons bookings
Prepare your own monthly invoice

Title

[Urgent] Saturday Japanese language teacher

Nihongo Club Cambridge is a charity group (charity registration number: 1136278) that provides heritage language education for young children to secondary school students from Japanese-speaking families living in and around Cambridge City / Cambridgeshire at Bar Hill Primary School on the outskirts of Cambridge.

Parents, as volunteers, play a central role in the running of the club, and face-to-face lessons are held every Saturday using Japanese textbooks and tailor-made teaching materials.　

Location:

Bar Hill Primary School, Gladeside, Bar Hill, Cambridge CB23 8DY

Start date:

April 2024

Working hours:

Every Saturday from 10am to 11am 

(except during half-term and state school holidays in England).

Job description:

We are looking for a Saturday Japanese language teacher, required from April 2024. The job involves teaching Japanese in Japanese using the national Japanese learning textbook “Kokugo'' and your tailor-made teaching materials. The maximum number of students is 10 in a class, but this may vary from term to term. The number of students will also depend on the class you are in charge of.

- Working closely with other class teachers and the committee. 

- Liaising with the parents (regarding curriculum, homework, attendance, advise etc)

- Attend, actively participate in teacher meetings and end-of-term culture events.

- Prepare and deliver the weekly class curriculum.

- Provide homework and assess students throughout the duration of the course.

- Ensure that learning resources and textbooks are kept up to date.

- Maintain regular and accurate records of individual lesson content, student attendance and progress, and report to our permanent registered class teacher and the committee, if necessary. Also report to the committee any planned absences of themselves or students.

- Support and engage the needs of all students and parents studying Japanese language and culture.

Further details (Japanese):

https://nihongoclubcambridge.wixsite.com/nihongoclub/teachers-opportunities

Gratuities:

Varies depending on teaching experience, and qualifications (consultation required). 

Assistance with DBS arrangements available.

Requirements:

- Eligible to work in the UK.

- Experience of teaching Japanese in Japanese in schools, companies, groups, online lessons etc. in the UK, overseas or Japan. 

- Essential to communicate with the students and their parents in Japanese, also the committee and teachers in Japanese/English, both verbally and by email.

- The class might need to switch to online lessons through Zoom or similar due to the weather conditions for example. In such a case, we require that you can use a PC or mobile device with internet access at home. 

If you are interested, please send your CV to the club email 

nihongoclubcambridge@gmail.com