Since we are dealing with impressionable junior high school students every day, we need to have a rich sensitivity first. They also have to deal with non-attendance and bullying, as well as provide career counseling for high school entrance examinations. This requires a broad perspective and the passion and leadership skills to deal carefully with each student.

He is in charge of specialized subjects, but he also serves as homeroom teacher, advisor for clubs, life guidance for students, parent-teacher conferences, and organizes various school events, which is a wide range of duties. In addition to teaching solid, easy-to-understand classes in the subjects for which he is responsible, he also works on the mental guidance of students, who are torn between being adults and children, and thus gains the trust of students and their parents. The school must be able to grasp the individuality of each student and provide patient guidance.

To become a middle school teacher, a teaching license is required. Licenses are divided by subject. Depending on the type of university and the number of credits earned, there are three types of licenses: Specialized (postgraduate degree is the basic qualification), Type 1 (university degree), and Type 2 (junior college degree). In the education department of a university, students can obtain both an elementary school and a junior or senior high school license even if they proceed to the elementary school teaching program.

Public junior high school students who pass the employment candidate examination administered by the board of education of the prefecture or designated city and are registered on the candidate list are hired at junior high schools that have vacancies. However, recruitment is quite difficult, as the top performers are selected from those with the highest grades and go through an interview with the principal. In the case of private schools, some junior high schools use the results of aptitude tests for private school teachers conducted by the Association of Private Junior High Schools and Senior High Schools as a reference for employment selection.

The number of junior high school students has continued to decline, and the number of junior high school teachers hired has remained difficult. However, with the introduction of small-group instruction as part of the promotion of the plan to improve the number of teachers and staff, it is expected that the number of hires will increase in the future. At the same time, there will be an increasing need to improve the quality of teachers' digital skills for ICT education, such as programming, and their attitude toward issues such as bullying and non-attendance at school.

In public secondary schools, salaries are based on local civil service salary regulations and therefore vary depending on the municipality in which they work. Salaries at private junior high schools are determined on a school-by-school basis. The average salary for both public and private small and medium schools is approximately 7.11 million yen (based on 12 years and 7 months of service). Salaries at national schools are based on the National Public Service Salary Law.

Public junior high schools are closed on Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and year-end and New Year holidays. Summer and winter vacations, etc., are only breaks for students, while teachers are required to participate in training programs inside and outside the school. Therefore, they go to work or work as usual. If they have to work on a holiday to lead students, they can take a make-up holiday.

In the case of public schools, you will be assigned to a school in the prefecture where you were hired, and you can only be transferred within the area where you were hired. If you wish to work in another area, you must take and pass another employment examination.

It's a chart that shows at a glance the main routes to a middle school teaching job!