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West, Kazuko. "College Entrance Examinations You Need to Pass to Be a Middle School or High School Mathematics Teacher in Japan" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Mathematical Association of America MathFest, TBA, Madison, Wisconsin, Jul 28, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p271036_index.html>

West, K. I. , 2008-07-28 "College Entrance Examinations You Need to Pass to Be a Middle School or High School Mathematics Teacher in Japan" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Mathematical Association of America MathFest, TBA, Madison, Wisconsin <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p271036_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: To become a middle school or high school teacher in Japan, one must first pass an entrance examination and enroll in a college which grants teacher certificates. A mathematics certificate requires a mathematics major in a faculty of education or a mathematics, physics or engineering major in a faculty of arts and sciences or engineering. Different faculties have different examinations. After graduation, one takes the local government employment examination which includes college transcripts, an interview and a written test. Some college faculties of education are just as difficult to get into as faculties of arts and sciences or medicine. For example, according to one ranking of private universities, acceptance to the education faculty of Waseda University, a top tier university, is equal to or more difficult than acceptance to six of twenty eight college medical faculties, all of which rank within the top ten percent of college faculties. Interestingly, although almost eighty percent of Japanese colleges grant teacher certificates, high school teachers - at least in the greater Tokyo area - are typically graduates of first tier colleges. Entrance examination problems of first tier colleges are often more complex and difficult than those on teacher employment examinations.

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