Approximately 50 foreign language teaching assistants could not come to Japan due to the influence of corona Gunma September 17, 16:41
Due to the ongoing restrictions on entry due to the influence of the new coronavirus, ALTs who teach foreign languages at elementary and junior high schools cannot come to Japan, and it is expected that about 50 people will be vacant in Gunma prefecture. I learned from an interview with NHK.
About 340 ALTs who assist foreign language education such as English are instructed in all 35 municipalities in Gunma prefecture.
Most of the ALTs are replaced from August to September, so when NHK interviewed all the municipalities in the prefecture, immigration restrictions continued due to the influence of the new coronavirus, so the successor to the ALT who has reached the end of his term. It turned out that there were a number of places where I couldn't take up the post, and it was expected that a total of 47 people would be vacant in 10 municipalities.
Looking at the vacancies by municipality, Takasaki City has 17 people, Tomioka City has 10 people, Annaka City has 6 people, Kiryu City has 4 people, Nakanojo Town has 3 people, Isesaki City and Shibukawa City have 2 people each, and Itakura. There is one person each in the town, Tsumagoi Village, and Nammoku Village.
Nakanojo Town and Minamimaki Village have no ALTs.
Takasaki City, which has the largest number of vacancies, has assigned ALTs to all elementary and junior high schools so far, and has taken measures such as dispatching English teachers from junior high schools so that the burden on elementary school teachers who have little experience in teaching English will not increase. Is proceeding.
Masayuki Iino, the director of the Takasaki City Board of Education, said, "The effect of ALT on English education is so great that I hope that I can take up the post as soon as possible. Children will interact with native people, such as by relocating. I would like to continue to devise ways to do it. "