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I want the truth about teaching English in Japan.

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I don't really agree with these 'doesn't mean anything on your resume' comments. It should be pretty easy to spin what you do (assuming you actually do stuff) into something there. I consider what I did at the eikaiwa to be 'real teaching', in the sense that after having being there a year I saw that most of my students had improved significantly over when I started. I was teaching and they learnt stuff - how is that not real teaching? Sure, I had to do it in a bit of a goofy way, but it worked well enough so hey...

I guess it depends entirely on what your job actually is, but I planned my own lessons, made my own props, came up with my own activities, and taught all ages and levels of children plus a handful of adult classes, plus had a few other responsibilities like student record keeping and interviewing potential teachers. I think I can spin this kind of stuff onto a resume pretty easily.
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