About

One of the highlights of the Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association is the Yokkaichi English Fellows (YEF) program. This very successful program provides an opportunity for LBUSD teachers or Cal State Long Beach graduates to serve for two years as assistant language teachers at the elementary and middle school levels in Yokkaichi, Japan.

This is an English immersion program for the students. Speaking Japanese is not required.

Selected teachers or new graduates will work at a paid position in the Yokkaichi School System for two years. A total of seven YEFs are at the school system each year and are replaced on a rotating basis so that the 2nd year YEFs may assist the new arrivals.

 

December 2024 Yokkaichi Board of Education and Assistant Teaching Staff.

37th YEF Anniversary Celebration was held on July 21, 2022
at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden
Cal StateUniversity, L.B.

2025 YEF applications are up!

Please submit all required documents lbyscayef@gmail.com
or through
 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4wpiBH6tmKl8Taf_ufZEcZDRDucykqqGUy1e99tVxeAI0YQ/viewform?usp=pp_url

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE
Friday, March 14th, 2025 by 5:00PM

Those who submit a completed application and its required documents will have an interview.
ZOOM Interviews will be held on
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 
and/or
 Sunday, March 23rd, 2025.
Time slots TBA. 

Questions or concerns about the application process,
please email lbyscayef@gmail.com  

Download 2025 Application Form

Download Overview “Becoming a YEF”