ALT Program
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Assistant Language Teacher (ALT)
These participants are engaged in English language instruction. ALTs are placed mainly in local boards of education or public elementary, junior high and/or senior high schools. There are a very limited number of cases in which participants are placed in private schools through prefectural offices or designated city offices.
(*Designated Cities: Twenty Japanese cities with populations of 500,000 or more designated by government ordinance: Sapporo, Sendai, Saitama, Chiba, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Sagamihara, Niigata, Shizuoka, Nagoya, Hamamatsu, Kyoto, Osaka, Sakai, Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kita-Kyushu, Fukuoka and Kumamoto.)
Duties
Participants who are assigned to local boards of education or elementary, junior high and/or senior high schools work as Assistant Language Teachers under the guidance of Language Teachers' Consultants or Japanese Teachers of English, as specified by the supervision and/or principal of the Board of Education and/or school.
The following is a brief outline of duties, though they may vary from one contracting organization to another:
a. Assistance in classes taught by Japanese Teachers of English in elementary schools, junior and/or senior high schools;
b. Assistance in English language education, usually conversation training, at elementary schools;
c. Assistance in the preparation of supplementary materials for teaching English;
d. Assistance in the language training of Japanese Teachers of English;
e. Assistance in the instruction of English language clubs;
f. Providing of information on language and other related subjects for people such as Teachers’ Consultants and Japanese Teachers of English (e.g., word usage, pronunciation, etc.);
g. Assistance in English language speech contests;
h. Participation in local international exchange activities;
i. Other duties as specified by the contracting organization;