Passport School Profile for elementary English classes

Key points: Fun, Quality, Personal, Family English System

What is Passport School?

Based out of Fukuoka, Passport School was started by Riktam de Voil after extensive experience teaching Japanese children and adults both in Japan and the U.K. Passport school principles are to be personal, friendly and relaxed but we offer professional, quality education and ‘aftercare’ via our network of native teachers and flexible lesson system. Japanese English teaching assistants are also available. You can study English lessons at Daimyo classroom or Nishijin classroom. However, most of our kids` lessons take place at homes.

The Daimyo classroom is near Akasaka subway and the Nishijin classroom is near Nishijin station - see locations page! For elementary English lessons or pre school mums and infants course. Flexible lesson system- study where and when you like! Home lessons OK!. Children can study daily English skills from the comfort of their home! We may also possibly be able to offer you private or small group lessons at our sister business classrooms belonging to American English Preschool`. These are located in Ohashi, Yahata and Tobata, Kitakyushu plus Karatsu. Please call the counselor for details or mail her at new@passportschool.info

School Aim

The school aim is to be flexible, catering to requests for private lessons via home lessons as well as offering circle lessons and group lessons in several locations plus contract lessons at kindergartens. Many of our students are also returnee children which calls for an excellent recruitment system to find the very best private teachers and trained, personal tutors with elementary or pre school school teaching experience. With returnee children, studying home lessons we offer creative projects to motivate them to develop their growing language and literacy skills.

Who are we?

We have several teachers working part time and from several countries, but what is unique about Passport School is that we also have over 2000 native teachers registered on our job vacancies mailing lists around Japan via our sister business at   http://ww.SenseiSeek.com

In fact, we also send out job vacancies for other schools plus teachers can post their profile on our website. In other words, other schools ask us to assist them to find them native teaching staff because they know that Passport School has the best system in Fukuoka to find trained, experienced teachers! If you want to know more about who our teachers are, please visit the private teachers’ profile pages to see our native teachers network.

Unique website, welcome to Fukuoka international events and free newsletter

Go Take a look at around our educational website! Visit the student and staff profiles pages and learn about our school philosophy and curriculum or visit the international events photos page or Teaching kids reference corner. You can download our free class resources or visit our English teaching A-Z advice corner. Having an excellent website presence which is also educational is a major point of our school marketing plus our community philosophy. For example, we sponsor cultural and social international events in Fukuoka every month. Participants can see their photos online or add remarks to the message board. If you want to receive our free bilingual monthly international events Fukuoka newsletter, please subscribe from this website!

Elementary English teacher training program and school philosophy

Since 2002, we have participated in an elementary English teacher training courses, sending young Japanese English teaching assistants as volunteers to teach elementary English in elementary schools and kindergartens. All our kids' classes focus on using and acquainting children with daily expressions, week in week out. We believe that if they can know and can learn to use expressions like "I am finished", "Do you have ??" to play an activity, that is more essentia than children simply swatting page after page of vocabulary or playing games without a clear aim to review the current structures or vocabulary being presented.

Quality education starts with choosing the best private teacher for your class

Many parents who join Passport School say that up till now their children have studied English lessons at schools elsewhere and that their children have had fun, playing games but they have not really learnt the basic skills like how to introduce themselves or reading and writing, so they lack confidence in using English. Of course, it is true that studying English lessons, it takes time and practise to improve, but our emphasis is to help children to learn all 4 skills in balance as soon as they are old enough to. For infants, pre school lessons, we teach infants phonics (pronunciation) in private lessons and mums and infants classes in group lessons and circle lessons too

Teaching English lessons without a clear lesson structure and curriculum is not professional. The quality of teaching depends on choosing the most suitably trained teacher for each and every class. Our English teachers staff are trained, teachers and professionals who mostly are self employed and work part time for themselves. This is an important fact not to overlook and it explains why Passport School English teachers are the most motivated and successful!

SETTING GOALS TOWARDS STUDENT FLUENCY:

Young children learn vocabulary and correct pronunciation fast. Developing conversational skills although most important will not suffice alone to giving children confidence or familiarity with English patterns or prepare them to take charge of their own learning which will not really ever start until they can themselves read and write.. Thus, in our children's classes we emphasize learning to read to a large extent, as after they can read, they can do many things such as read a storybook, and they don't have to keep all the English they know in their head; they can learn it from books and writing activities. The ability to read in English opens up a whole new world. Schools which don't emphasize learning to read phonics from the start tend to have students that are very parrot like and can regurgitate English on command but don't really seem to know what they are doing or why.

Passport school means a fun, quality, personal, family lesson system!