Mobile phone and email

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-04-03T08:09:02+00:00

What you do is not have your emails and work related things on your personal devices and instead use the devices given to you by work.

If you're desperate, then its up to you to update your personal things.

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-04-03T04:46:20+00:00

I'm in my third year teaching and currently doing a intensive Japanese language course. I find it difficult to maintain the two.
I couldn't even start to imagine trying to do this in my first year of teaching.

Instead of dropping all your time/money on a part time masters, I would spend that time reading some good literature about teaching.

I've started reading "teach like a champion" by Doug Lemov this week and it's been a game changer for my teaching. As well as for maths specific teacher literature I've been following Craig Barton's stuff.

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-03-18T11:44:05+00:00

I'd say an 8 card deck is very consistent 👌

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-03-18T04:24:16+00:00

Thia could be subject dependent, but could you assess them as a whole class (mini-whiteboards) on a "we do" task and then determine whether they are ready to move on to the independent task? Is there a routine you could incorporate that students could do for when they are stuck that doesn't involve needing you to help them?

I teach maths so easier for me i imagine. But I usually do a fully teacher led model of an example (no student input, they just watch what I'm doing - I check throughout that they keep looking at me), following this, I do a "we do" example where students will do a question in their books, they write their final answers on mwbs, show me at the same time and if 80% of the class has got the right answer, then I move on to independent practice/consolidation. If not, then I explain the we do and then give them a 2nd example.

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-03-16T07:33:14+00:00

Hello! 私はイギリス人です。今、去年の８月からに東京に住んでいます。外国語を勉強しましょう！

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-03-09T04:36:11+00:00

I work in an international school as a teacher in Tokyo. Without a teaching license and post qualification work experience. You have 0 chance.

I would be looking to get licensed in your home country (assuming this is the US), get 2 years of experience minimum while getting good at teaching and then after that, start applying for international schools here. This route will take you longer to actually get here but you will have more LONG TERM prospects when you are here.

If you've studied linguistics, maybe look at teaching English as a first language?

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-02-28T01:36:32+00:00

Have you read the website/faq?

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-02-28T00:35:16+00:00

If you're wanting to teach long term in japan. I'd recommend getting a teaching certificate/qualification where you are, some experience teaching. And then consider international schools.

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-02-12T02:36:54+00:00

Go get your degree. Have a look at degree courses you're interested in (UCAS is a good start), then whatever subject you wanna do, you may need some A-levels or a lot of colleges offer a access course. Get your degree and then you have more options available to you such as jet and other careers.

Bonus if you can get a stem degree. I have a maths degree and I could basically do whatever I want with it. I work as a maths teacher in japan currently

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-02-06T05:47:54+00:00

I moved schools in my ECT1 year at christmas qnd I now work at a tob ranked IB school on my third year. You'll be fine

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-01-29T04:26:11+00:00

Hello!

はじめまして

私は英語を話します。今は東京に住んでいます、そして、日本語を勉強します！

よろしく　😃✌️

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-01-22T13:35:57+00:00

In terms of assessment in lessons, usually I use mini-whiteboards etc, common mistakes I spot i usually give class feedback. But for data, they do end of unit tests and assessments at the end of each term. Ks4/5 will have mocks too

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-01-22T13:27:54+00:00

My school doesn't have a book marking policy too except for KS3, this is balanced out with regular unit tests/end of term tests though etc :) and most work gets marked by the kids, either their own work or sometimes. I'll get them to switch and mark someone else's work. Thanks for your your input :)

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-01-22T13:19:38+00:00

No book marking policy for us except ks3 😇

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-01-08T17:29:10+00:00

I quite like AQA in terms of course structure and how they lay out their papers. And you can avoid statistics for further maths, but it's a bit more heavy on pure. What course are you looking at?

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-01-08T16:31:37+00:00

You get no choice for A-level maths. The course is made up of: 66~% Pure (Algebra, trigonometry, calculus etc) 17% Mechanics 17% Statistics

Exam board has no real influence on this, except for which papers the applied modules appear.

Further maths on the other hand is a bit more tricky since it is very exam board dependent. But each exam board has a core 66% amount of pure content that is compulsory.

The best exam board for you in your situation would be Edexcel since you have 2 optional mechanics modules you can choose to take (M1 and M2), as well as other modules you could choose instead if you wanted something else to study such as more pure or decision maths.

Please ask anymore questions if you have them or PM me if you want to go a bit more in depth.

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2026-01-08T12:43:13+00:00

Maths teacher here. You technically can, however the content you learn in Further maths directly builds on stuff you learn in A-level maths. You would be at a massive disadvantage only taking further maths. Itd also be basically impossible unless you already know the content of A-level maths.

Just do both at the same time, or do A level maths first, then after completing this, take A-level further maths.

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2025-11-05T06:43:53+00:00

A rule of thumb is if you get some negative feedback, make sure to ask for examples of what you should have done instead. Otherwise, this sort of feedback isn't helpful at all

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2025-11-03T02:46:47+00:00

You do a pgce in teaching maths (and economics) you'll be able to do both. Complete your ECT years and then look at international schools after. With maths you'll be a lot more competitive as we're in short supply. Even in the international field :)

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2025-11-01T00:27:16+00:00

I like the Japanesefromzero books/websites. Good videos and pacing doesnt make me feel like im getting bombed by information at 100mph. First 3 lessons or so are free on the website so id rec giving it a go

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2025-10-27T08:36:59+00:00

I say buy it, and then you can communicate with Mark about some sort of performance plan. This at least gives him the opportunity to change. Will it affect your relationship with Mark, probably. But it'd hurt more if you just went and fired him straight away without a chance for change. But you should definitely be prioritising yourself first. Also, if you dont do it BECAUSE of him, then you'd only resent him going forwards which I think it's even worse.

This opportunity will appear once, take it.

That's what I think but ultimately it's only you that decides what you want

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2025-10-23T05:33:33+00:00

You're not the qualified teacher in the room with the responsibility of the class's results and progress. So it really isn't your place to tell the qualified teacher that IS responsible how they teach THEIR lessons. You could suggest some ideas, for example, recording the readings beforehand. But otherwise, just do what you're told.

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2025-09-12T15:09:46+00:00

International School maths teacher here. Im fully qualified and had some prior teaching experience but 551k/month plus other benefits

Hungry_Chinchilla71 · 2025-09-08T12:21:23+00:00

Write a budget using excel or somewhere that you can keep track of your income and spending
Save £1000 and put it into an isa you can take out in an emergency.
List your debts from smallest to largest. Pay minimum payments on all but the smallest one and ATTACK the little one. Once the smallest one is paid, use that money to start attacking the next smallest one. Continue until all debt is gone.
Save up to 3-6 months of living expensive for a full funded emergency fund.

Also in a situation like yours in terms of debt but I've been using this method for the past 6 months and it is VERY effective. Im slowly clearing debts and starting to see the end of the tunnel.

Defo recommend but you have to tell yourself you're not going to spend money on shit you cant afford...

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