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1. Self Introduction

I’m Scott Rosnick, from the USA.  I’m a middle-aged man with the hobbies of a man 10 years younger. I like movies and video games, and I especially like collecting music on CDs.  So, maybe not “10 years younger” so much as “10 years ago.”

Roughly speaking, the main reason I came to Yokohama Hayato was that I had just finished a graduate program in teaching, and Yokohama Hayato, unlike a lot of “English teaching” jobs offered a position teaching rather than a job as an assistant, or as a drone running a pre-made program.

I know it’s trite for a teacher to say it, but I enjoy interacting with, learning from, and teaching my students, no matter whether it’s simple human-to-human contact, or them telling me more about how their world is different from mine, or seeing the lights go on behind their eyes when they finally understand something that I’m working on.

This is also, I’m sure, pretty trite, but there is an awful lot to do.  And no matter how carefully I prioritize, things still come up that need to get done.  Balancing and juggling the different work is the most significant challenge.  Aside from that, there’s the difficulty of preparing lesson plans and materials that a variety of different teachers all agree will “work” in their classrooms, in their styles, and with their students

The Kokusaigoka (International Language Course or ILC) is a kind of school within a school.  Simply put, it’s a program centered on the humanities (almost excluding math and science), with a special focus on English.  Because there are only about 100 students in each grade, they all get to know each other very well.  Most of the teachers associated with a particular grade level soon get to know most, if not all, of the students in that grade. Put in the most positive terms, we like to say it’s a kind of “ILC family.”  Like all high schools everywhere,  students are varied, but in some ways, I think the ILC draws from a slightly wider curve… outliers are more common if that makes any sense.  

It’s certainly not the only school, but still one of few schools where you can join the Japanese educational system unfiltered and unfettered.  If you have felt you’re being held at arm’s length from what and how the local teachers are teaching, we have a good job for you.  If you’re already neck-deep in Japanese education and are looking for a new job, we have a great position for you!