| SEASONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: During the School Festival (Culture Festival) in September, you'll be expected to prepare a brief (10-15 min.) model lesson, which you will present to prospective junior high school students interested in attending Chigusa the following school year. In January, you'll be expected to attend and possibly speak at the JET mid-year seminar. If chosen to be a speaker, you will be responsible for co-presenting a 70 minute presentation with a selected JTE. ADDITIONAL DUTIES/CHANCES TO GET INVOLVED: Helping English teachers with whom you don't team-teach (ex.: help correct their students\quote papers; tape-record passages for their own exams; help them draft/edit letters in English; help them with special English-language projects (prefectural conferences; revision of manuals in English, etc.); help with speech contests; help draft exam questions). Helping students outside class (university-exam preparation; speech and essay contests in English; research study-abroad and home-stay opportunities; free conversation practice). TIME OFF/AWAY FROM SCHOOL (as of 2008-2009): 10 days of nenkyu (which can be taken at any time during the school year and can be carried from one school year to the next if you don't use all of them.). Please note you'll get one additional day for each year you stay on JET. 10 days of tokkyu (which can only be taken when classes are not in session and the school is officially on holiday--summer, spring and winter vacations). Please note these days DO NOT carry over. sick days (unlimited to the best of my knowledge, but you might be required to submit a doctor's note in the case of absence for three or more consecutive days). (Call the school in the morning, around 8 a.m. to notify the staff you won't be in.) You'll have to fill out special forms for each one of these types of days off. Before finalizing plans for time off, please double-check your schedule with your immediate supervisor (Omiya-sensei). You can also take kenshu--work-study days (the Board of Education strongly suggests we limit the number to 10/school year). With these days, you essentially can work from home. You must have special permission from the principal to take these days, and type up a report to submit upon your return. The report should detail what work/lesson preparations you made. You can only take these work-study days during periods when classes are not in session (summer and entrance-exam periods) and your absence does not interfere with school functions. |
| YOUR JOB will be a bit more demanding than that of fellow JETs in the Aichi area. For one thing, you are only at one school, instead of the typical 3 or 4. Your work schedule is from 8:30 to 3:20, except for Wednesdays, when you're scheduled to work until 4:20. Lunch break is from 12:30 to 1:10. You're expected to "clock in" by stamping the staff book in the main office (1st floor) with your hanko/inkan. This is a typical, 50-min.-class schedule. (Schedule Notes: 1. There is a teachers' meeting from 8:20-8:25. The students are not allowed in the staff room at this time. DO NOT interrupt it by walking into the main room at this time. If you happen to come in while the meeting is in progress, wait till it is over before you enter the room. 2. "Short Time" is when homeroom teachers (and students) make any special announcements to their individual classes. 3. You are not required to stay until after 7th period on Fridays. 4. Only the homeroom teachers and students are required to participate in the "Cleaning Period.") Your teaching (or co-teaching) load is: 7 sections of 1st-year Oral Communication (for 08-09, team-taught with Fujisawa and Kurokawa senseis); 4 sections of 1st-year Cross-Cultural Understanding (for 08-09, team-taught with Fujisawa and Suzuki senseis); 1 section of 2nd-year Essay Writing (for 08-09, team-taught with Shiroyama sensei); 1 section of mixed-level (2nd & 3rd grade) Model United Nations (for 08-09, team-taught with Omiya sensei); 1 section of 3rd-year Current English (for 08-09, team-taught with Omiya sensei). If you deviate from what's already on file, you'll be expected to compile (or build from scratch) your own teaching materials for all these classes. You'll be responsible for grading any work you assign, (whether it be essays, reading-comprehension quizzes, presentation preparations, etc.) In one school year, Chigusa has two terms, and exams at the end of each term as well as each mid-term. You'll be expected to draft portions of exams for each one of the classes with which you're involved, and required to grade your portions in a timely manner. The exams for the oral communication and cross-cultural understanding classes also include listening sections, which you'll be responsible for producing and recording prior to exam days. |
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| In addition, the school places a greater emphasis on English education than others supposedly do. And lastly, the administration is fairly strict with all teachers' schedules. |
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