| Eligibility |
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Can anybody apply if they are English teachers? |
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We only accept English teachers who have proper visa status for woking
at Japan. Also we are currently seeking English teachers who can work around
Tokyo area.
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| Interview, Registration, Trial Lessons |
| Q： |
Do I need something to bring for the interview such as my resume? |
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Our on-line application form also works as your resume so you don't need
to bring your resume. But you should bring your qualification of English
teaching, transcript, diploma or certificate etc for proving them. If you
have original teaching materials, it is good to bring it too. |
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| Q： |
How can I register with Plan 9 Cafe? |
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After the interview, we will offer you to register with us. At the same
time, we will tell you teacher's room password. |
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| Q： |
What kind of lessons should I give students at trial lessons? |
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These is no particulat requirement. Teachers give students trail lessons
just like ordinary lessons while checking students' English levels. |
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| Teachers' Profile |
| Q： |
How does Plan 9 Cafe put teachers' profile on the website? and what kind
of teachers' informaion on it? |
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We put basic teachers' information on the websaite excepting personal information
such as telephone number, email address and address. We put the information
on it because studetns definitely need these information for seaching English
teachers on our website as a basic info. We have a sample profile page
so please check it out.
Sample profile is here
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| Q： |
What should I do when my infomation on the profile changes? |
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Please inform us about it as soon as possible. We are going to update the
informaion. |
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| English lessons |
| Q： |
What kind of English lessons should I give to students? |
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It depends on students. We take surveys to students what kind og English
would they like to learn before lessons start. We also ask teachers what
kind of English they can teach beforehand and then we try to match between
teachers and studetns. |
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| Q： |
How should I program English lessons? How should I use 60 minutes lesson. |
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Plan 9 Cafe also ask students how they'd like to use their lesson in advance and make a basic lesson program so teachers can use or refer to the lesson program. |
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What kind of homework should I give to students? |
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Homework you should give to students is related to the lessons. Otherwise,
homework about students' weak point. |
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How should I keep lesson record? |
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We prepare lesson record sheet and students bring the sheet at lessons.
It will take a minute to fill in the lesson record . Just write what kind
of lesson and homework you gave your students at the end of each lesson. |
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| Q： |
How can I get semi-private lessons? |
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Unfortunately, teacher can not choose lesson style like private lessons
or semi-private lessons. |
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| Lesson appointment |
| Q： |
How should we make an appointment for lessons with my students? |
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Usually after finishing lesson, schedule for next lesson. Otherwise, contact
each other by e-mail or phone and make the next lesson appointment. |
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| Transportation |
| Q： |
Can I get train/bus fare? |
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We arrenge students who can take lessons at the place where teachers allow
to give lessons. So usually you can not get the fare. But by students'
request, in case you have to go to a place where you don't allow to give
lessons, please talk with your students directly about the fare in advance.Plan
9 Cafe take no responsibility for it. |
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| Lesson Place |
| Q： |
Where exactly should we have lessons at? |
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Usually lessons is held preferable at places where easy to access, such
as cafes, American style chained restaurants, train stations nearby. Otherwise,
students' home or teachers' home are fine too. Please talk with your students
directly in advance and decide it. |
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| Drink and snack |
| Q： |
Who pays drink and snack in case we have lessons at cafes or restaurants? |
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In this case, just separate the bill. It means that you just pay what you
order and students pay what they order. |
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| Lesson materials/ textbooks |
| Q： |
What kind of lesson materials or textbooks should I use for lessons? |
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It depends on students. Plan 9 Cafe doesn't suggest to use particular textbook
to students. If students have their favorit materials or textbooks for
their lessons, teachers should just adopt it. If students have no idea
about it, Plan 9 Cafe recommends them some popular textbooks. Also teachers
can suggest particular textbooks or original materials must be fine. |
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| Lesson fees |
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How much can I get lesson fees? |
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Teachers can get lesson fees that they choose to set range between 2,000
and 4,000 yen for 60munites private lesson.This lesson fees infomation
is going to be put on teachers' profile page on this website so students
take a look at this info and decide whether they take lessons. |
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When and how can I get lesson fees? |
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Teachers can get lesson fees directly from their students on the spot at
lessons.Usually at the beginning of each lesson otherwise the end of each
lesson. Plan 9 Cafe take no responsibility for the problem about this kind
thing between them so please make sure about this with students before
starting lessons. |
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| Lesson cancellation/tardiness |
| Q： |
Even though I make an appointment with students, I can not go and give
them lessons for some reason. I'd like to cancel this time of lessons.
What should I do for it? |
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We strongly recommend both teacehrs and students to talk each other and
decide their rules in case of cancellations before lessons start. It is
very important thing. So please talkn with your students about this immediately.Plan
9 Cafe take no responsibility for it becasue it is a matter between teachers
and students. |
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| Q： |
Shortly before lesson starts, I find it difficult to get the lesson place
on time. What should I do for it? |
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We strongly recommend both teacehrs and students to talk each other and
decide their rules in case of tardiness before lessons start. It is very
important thing. So please talkn with your students about this immediately.
Plan 9 Cafe take no responsibility for it becasue it is a matter between
teachers and students. |
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| Vacation/Holliday |
| Q： |
I plan to go on vacation and I won't be able to give lessons to students
for next several months. What should I do? |
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Please inform Plan 9 Cafe as soon as possible when you know it and then
tell about it to your the students. It depends on how long you take vacation
or students though some students might take other teachers lessons. In
case of this, we might have to ask other teacher as their temporary teacher
instead of you. |
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| Physical/verbal aduse(including sexual harassment) |
| Q： |
When I gave lessons last time, I got a varbal abuse by the student. |
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We don't forgive any kinds of abuse including sexual harassment against
both teachers and students. No excuse at all. Please inform us as soon
as possible when you got it. We are going to ask about what happened exactly
and make sure and react properly for dealing with it. |
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| Privacy Policy |
| Q： |
Do you inform students my privete information? |
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We inform students teachers' name, gender, nationality, birtheday(age),
e-mail address and phone number. These information helps students to decide
whether they are going to take your lessons or not. Also when starting
lessons, students need to contact you directly to make appointments so
they need to have them. So please allow us to inform them. For further
information about this, please check our on-line application form. |
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| Q： |
Can I have students information? |
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We inform teacehrs students' information about name, age, gender,occupation.
But we can not inform teachers students' phone number, e-mail address,
adress, office place because all of them are very private information.
We just run the business under the privacy policy. It doesn't mean that
students would never like to tell teachers their information. So please
ask your students about other information directly if you need to know. |
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| Termination |
| Q： |
I have to go back to my country because my visa will expire and I can not
keep give them lessons. What should I do for it. |
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For any reason, when teachers are unable to keep giving lessons to students,
Please inform us as soon as possible. |
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