Seiritsu International Education

In 2014, the Tokyo government brought in about 100 JETs, joining their counterparts spread throughout Japan. JET stands for “Japan Exchange and Teaching” and is a programme to promote grass-roots international exchange. You can learn more about the programme at the following links:


http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/introduction/index.html

http://jetwit.com/wordpress/2013/11/16/japan-news-tokyo-to-increase-number-of-jets-significantly-in-2014-in-anticipation-of-olympics/

Then, starting this year, they added another 100 participants to help out in Tokyo at private institutions like Seiritsu Gakuen, bringing the number of Tokyo JETs to 200. We learned on April 29th that we would be fortunate to have two teachers placed with us.


With only three months to prepare, we have spent a lot of extra time behind the scenes researching what is needed and what is often done to meet the needs of the incoming ALTs.


After all the build up, we finally got to meet in person on Wednesday August 5th in Shinjuku at a special orientation put together for the JETs and the host schools. Nogami Sensei, Kawaguchi Sensei and Brent took part and then brought the JETs to Seiritsu and then their short term accommodations. Vice-principal Fukuda Sensei took a picture and made a blog post for the Seiritsu family column. You can see it here:

http://www.seiritsu.ac.jp/articles/-/1876

We are going to spend most of August helping the two new teaches get settled into their lives here in Tokyo. Please join us in giving them a warm welcome!


We are confident they will enjoy their time with us her at Seiritsu!