Aeon Japan - Amity Children's School

Aeon Japan - Amity Children's School

Many don't know it but Aeon Japan has a children's division called Amity. These guys deal with kids and only kids. So if you love the wee little ones this might be worth checking out.

And when we say "wee little" by no means are we kidding. (No pun intended.) They actually have pre-natal classes. These are English classes for expectant mothers. And following that they have classes from ZERO years of age to 6 months. 

The Amity Branch - a Bit More About Them

Being a spin off of Aeon Japan, the adult division, Amity focuses on children. They have roughly 85 locations with roughly 24,000 kids. These positions are for native English speakers. With college degrees. They recruit from both abroad and from Japan.

A Typical Teaching Day

Here's a run down on how a typical teaching day at  Amity goes. Firstly, in line with what teaching at English conversation schools has come to be,  the hours are long. Just letting you know.

• A standard day "can be" from 10  or 11 a.m to 7 or 8 p.m. (We didn't write "can be" , it's from their site.
•  This is followed by the culturally typical morning staff meeting.
• Then you'll knock out 2 or 3 classes followed by a lunch break. (1 hour.)
• Then expect another 3 classes or so until early evening. 
• Then office work and cleaning up the classroom pretty much wraps up the day at around 8 p.m.

Aeon Japan - Amity The Orientation & Interview Process

There will be a group  orientation of how the company operates. The group orientation can be quite large - as large as 30 or so applicants are typical.  Following that there is a video that gives further orientation on what to expect about Amity and life in Japan in general. 

There is also a short interview with a native English speaker just to make sure you can dot your i's and cross your t's.

You will also have to do a short lesson demonstration to the staff of your choice to the other participants  who are vying for the jobs and some Japanese staff but it all begins with filling out their on-line application. Their official site link here.

Aeon Japan - Amity & Other Duties

• Other duties which are fairly main is a heavy dose of interaction with parents to let them know how the kids are doing following lessons, what you taught  and what kind of homework you gave out. etc. Many teachers mention that this squeezes the teacher pretty tightly between lessons making it hectic and exhausting.
•  Doing level checks for the children for placement within the curriculum. Submission of  student progress records are another part of the busy work part of the job. 
• Throw in a dose of a few business meetings (given in Japanese of course) and this pretty much rounds out what goes down on this gig.

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