UKから来日して一緒に働くDaniに、

Wings Kids Familyについて聞いてみました！

it is an awesome place to work!

Hi! My name is Dani, I’m a 26 year old Oxford University graduate, animal-lover, WWE fanatic, history-enthusiast, and all-round one-person pep squad from England, and I work at Wings Kids Family English School. For context, I’m in Japan on a Working Holiday visa for one year, and my Japanese is pretty awful, although slowly improving. I’ve been working at WKF for a year, and it is an awesome place to work – I genuinely feel lucky to have been accepted as a teacher here.

The core tenet of this school is advocacy of learning through doing, not telling. At WKF, rather than teaching grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation by rote, our students actively tackle and engage with the English language by playing games, being involved in activities, giving presentations, singing songs, and reading stories.

In practice, teachers’ day-to-day tasks include devising and running activities, helping with lunch and snacks, changing diapers for younger kids, cleaning the classrooms, shepherding park visits, facilitating short student presentations, leading classes, and teaching reading and helping with reading practice.

Teaching here also requires a great deal of natural empathy and patience; in all communication listening is more important than speaking, and teaching English at WKF is no different. Yes, it can be exhausting. Yes, it will challenge you. Yes, you will sometimes come home with glittery pipe cleaners in your hair. And yes, it is every bit as awesome as it sounds.