Sean McGonigle ’24 has been awarded a place with the JET Program as an assistant language teacher. Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) assistant language teachers (ALT) are placed in various schools throughout Japan, assisting teachers in English classrooms. The ALTs create lessons, help out with extracurriculars, and engage in local events.
After being nominated by Hiromi Onishi and the entire CC Japanese Program, McGonigle, a Philosophy major with an Asian Studies and Japanese Language minor, says, “I am very excited to have the chance to pursue both education and the progression of my Japanese linguistic abilities though the JET program! The amazing teachers of the CC Japanese Program have helped me grow both linguistically and culturally throughout my time, and I will always be grateful for their support.”
McGonigle will be departing the US at the beginning of August to move to Japan.
“I would ideally love to become a teacher in the future so, as for career goals, this will be both my first steps towards teaching as well as my first experience as a teacher,” he says. “I also wish to, at some point in my life, pursue a career in which I will be using the Japanese language, so I am really looking forward to growing both linguistically and in a professional manner! I am thinking of pursuing graduate school for philosophy or going to a language school for Japanese after I complete my time with JET.”
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