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If you are a think-outside-the-box teacher, Indonesian or expat, especially male teachers with experience teaching middle school ages kids in English, I hope you’ll read this.
I just had an interesting chat with an Indonesian friend about a new project she has in mind. This friend is a child development specialist with experience evaluating kids and developing home-schooling plans.
As those of you familiar with how home-schooling (at least the non-religious variety) is done, most home-schooled kids don’t sit at home with a book and a parent doing assignments on line and nothing more. Good home schooling involves mentors, field trips, and exposure to lots of new people and ideas – it just doesn’t involve being enrolled somewhere like JIS or BINUS.
Anyway, my friend is in the early stages of a business plan that involves partnering with a local organization that caters to expats (not a school) to offer educational services to children who are being home-schooled. She has some good ideas and nibbles from potential families, but wants to come up with a really solid plan, including identifying first-rate instructors (especially male teachers, as the target group of students is currently all male).
At the moment this is entirely speculative. No, there is no guarantee that jobs for expats with a KITAS/IMTA can be worked out. But, the need for a KITAS/IMTA in order to work legally is on her radar, and who knows where things might be a year or two from now?
My friend would like to get a feel for what kind of resources are out there: what if she COULD arrange legal teaching positions? What if there are equally qualified Indonesians she could hire? What if there are people who just want to chat with her about her ideas, because they support the idea of having a strong home-schooling support network for expats in Jakarta?
So that’s basically it. She asked me where she could start identifying people to talk to, and of course, I suggested that I mention it here.
If this is a conversation/project you might like to contribute to, or be considered for, pop me a PM and I will put you in touch with her.
I just had an interesting chat with an Indonesian friend about a new project she has in mind. This friend is a child development specialist with experience evaluating kids and developing home-schooling plans.
As those of you familiar with how home-schooling (at least the non-religious variety) is done, most home-schooled kids don’t sit at home with a book and a parent doing assignments on line and nothing more. Good home schooling involves mentors, field trips, and exposure to lots of new people and ideas – it just doesn’t involve being enrolled somewhere like JIS or BINUS.
Anyway, my friend is in the early stages of a business plan that involves partnering with a local organization that caters to expats (not a school) to offer educational services to children who are being home-schooled. She has some good ideas and nibbles from potential families, but wants to come up with a really solid plan, including identifying first-rate instructors (especially male teachers, as the target group of students is currently all male).
At the moment this is entirely speculative. No, there is no guarantee that jobs for expats with a KITAS/IMTA can be worked out. But, the need for a KITAS/IMTA in order to work legally is on her radar, and who knows where things might be a year or two from now?
My friend would like to get a feel for what kind of resources are out there: what if she COULD arrange legal teaching positions? What if there are equally qualified Indonesians she could hire? What if there are people who just want to chat with her about her ideas, because they support the idea of having a strong home-schooling support network for expats in Jakarta?
So that’s basically it. She asked me where she could start identifying people to talk to, and of course, I suggested that I mention it here.
If this is a conversation/project you might like to contribute to, or be considered for, pop me a PM and I will put you in touch with her.