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Post by shachou on May 19, 2016 17:33:11 GMT 9
Hey, can someone who's JPA is coming ask them to grab an extra copy of handouts etc for presentations they attend for me to give to my JPA who becamed cannot go? I think my JPA is only going for the first day, but if that would be helpful I can ask and I don't suppose she would mind (she's very lovely). Also shachou 's successor and I will be presenting in the workshop (about housing) twice because they didn't have enough people(?) pls come and make occasional eye contact for moral support and ask questions (it is apparently q&a focused) hue whut... she's doing it twice? How do they not have enough PAs? so she's talking about furniture with you and then more on housing? |
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Post by Ividia on May 19, 2016 18:41:11 GMT 9
I think my JPA is only going for the first day, but if that would be helpful I can ask and I don't suppose she would mind (she's very lovely). Also shachou 's successor and I will be presenting in the workshop (about housing) twice because they didn't have enough people(?) pls come and make occasional eye contact for moral support and ask questions (it is apparently q&a focused) hue whut... she's doing it twice? How do they not have enough PAs? so she's talking about furniture with you and then more on housing? no we're doing it as a team! ...twice. The same content twice (but for different groups as I understand it) |
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Post by shachou on May 19, 2016 21:22:15 GMT 9
hue whut... she's doing it twice? How do they not have enough PAs? so she's talking about furniture with you and then more on housing? no we're doing it as a team! ...twice. The same content twice (but for different groups as I understand it) I see... CLIAR is silly... |
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Post by ザ・penguin54 on Jun 8, 2016 13:30:09 GMT 9
heyy people please check my post in the FB group because soup and I are running around like chickens with our heads cut off (we thought we could get CLIAR to come to our meeting and they can't) D: YOLOSIK
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Post by shachou on Jun 9, 2016 18:12:04 GMT 9
I wish I was still in that group
juicy juicy GOSHIPPU
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Post by Shimanchu 2024 on Jun 13, 2016 14:13:48 GMT 9
I wish I was still in that group juicy juicy GOSHIPPU
I just voted on a poll in the group saying we should allow old PAs to remain in the group.
YW
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Post by shachou on Jun 13, 2016 17:39:11 GMT 9
I wish I was still in that group juicy juicy GOSHIPPU
I just voted on a poll in the group saying we should allow old PAs to remain in the group.
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Post by Miscreative on Aug 26, 2016 13:57:00 GMT 9
i just called a "a kickass pa"
because one of my ALTs told me that he wanted to go to an SDC and i responded with "i want you to be able to go to one too"
any advice/ideas on how to get my supers/BOE to either set one up or let us join on the one put on by the 県 (i am designated city)
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Post by Sparkles on Aug 26, 2016 14:54:51 GMT 9
i just called a "a kickass pa" because one of my ALTs told me that he wanted to go to an SDC and i responded with "i want you to be able to go to one too" any advice/ideas on how to get my supers/BOE to either set one up or let us join on the one put on by the 県 (i am designated city) the way it works here is this: we've got the 1) toridan #1 (where I am, the KEN) 2) toridan #2 (designated city) 3) Giant CO (the KEN BOE where jellyfish is atm) 4) Little COs (the 市町村s and when we have them private schools) toridan #1 heads up the ○○県JET Council (aka the ○○県語学指導助手受入れ活用連絡協議会) of which 1)~4) are all a part now this has nothing directly to do with the ALTs also 2) the designated city has deigned to join this thing when they didn't technically have to so to my understanding, 1)~4) all give ideas and agree to work with one another on things related to the JET Program and I think some dues/monetary contributions to be used for the JET community at large are given to the Council's authority some of the Council's overall funds I THINK are then dispersed to 3) Giant CO/KEN BOE to help them run their SDC because some of the Council's funds are used and 1)~4) all contribute to those funds, ALTs from both 2) designated city and 4) municipals can also attend 3) KEN BOE's SDC technically this is an agreement that could all fall apart (and we've gotten...discussions/queries...from the KEN BOE before like "why do we have to include non-KEN ALTs?" and from the little COs like "why do we have to let our ALTs have the day off so we can pay for them to go elsewhere and not teach?") -- at some point the KEN BOE could be like "we don't care about getting the funding so we're not inviting the other ALTs anymore" -- but ご参考まで。 another technicality is that CLAIR highly encourages (requires??) each CO to provide their ALTs with 3 days' training, so we say back to the little COs, "you either have your ALTs come to the KEN BOE's SDC /or/ you can provide us with documentation that you did these 3 days yourself" (and then they're very happy to have their ALTs come to the KEN's SDC). unfortunately my JET soup's not in the office today otherwise I'd try to KAKUNIN with them whether this is an actual rule or not.... I'd send out feelers to whoever runs the KEN's SDC and see what they do at their SDC/what they'd think about allowing your city's ALTs to participate. I know one sticking point with our SDC is that since it is put on primarily by and for the KEN ALTs, most of the content is SHS-focused -- which is fine for most of our designated city ALTs, but the municipal ALTs are exclusively EHS/JHS, and they want more stuff geared toward them, sometimes without understanding why the the KEN BOE (which deals only with SHS) doesn't "do anything" for them. (...sigh. I try to explain so many times.) I am sure this process would be smoothed/more acceptable if your city was willing/able to make a monetary donation on behalf of your ALTs to help with things like renting the SDC venue, but that would involve a whooooooooole lot of budgeting and paperwork. on the other hand, if you set one up yourself, that will also involve a whole lot of budgeting and paperwork, sooooooooo.... GOOD LUCK. |
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Post by Miscreative on Aug 26, 2016 15:19:51 GMT 9
i just called a "a kickass pa" because one of my ALTs told me that he wanted to go to an SDC and i responded with "i want you to be able to go to one too" any advice/ideas on how to get my supers/BOE to either set one up or let us join on the one put on by the 県 (i am designated city) the way it works here is this: we've got the 1) toridan #1 (where I am, the KEN) 2) toridan #2 (designated city) 3) Giant CO (the KEN BOE where jellyfish is atm) 4) Little COs (the 市町村s and when we have them private schools) toridan #1 heads up the ○○県JET Council (aka the ○○県語学指導助手受入れ活用連絡協議会) GOOD LUCK. i am (have been) chatting with the KEN CIR about this and apparently we dont have that? or if we do neither of us knows about it. this is all compounded by the fact that my office (and the city boe) wants me do only be PA on paper and for me to not do anything whatsoever and as such i have gotten no training or explanations of anything besides "keep your head down and don't make work for yourself" and legend has it that we used to send our ALTs to the KENs SDC when we only had like 1 or 2 but now we have 8 and that number will increase again (apparently, hence my trying to get involved because current system will probably crumble under the pressure. the cracks were fine because they were too small to worry about but.....) |
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Post by G-Rex on Sept 1, 2016 9:55:11 GMT 9
does anyone know when the transfer applications deadline is? i feel like it's usually early-mid october but i can't find any 案内 from clair or anything Sparkles? |
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Post by Sparkles on Sept 1, 2016 10:21:38 GMT 9
G-Rex I checked with my JPA and thus far we've only gotten documents related to deadlines for 4月来日, and JPA thinks the formal documents will come within the next few weeks. Usually the gap between getting the official notice of deadlines and the deadlines themselves are only a few weeks. Past deadlines to submit a request to change COs, host prefecture/designated city, or job type: Oct 25 (2013) Oct 17 (2014) Oct 16 (2015) Usually we've gotten the official documents in mid/late September and I've informed my JETs of them by the end of the first week of October. If I get any people considering before we get the current NENDO's official docs, I send them the previous years and tell them to start preparing ASAP, then adjust as necessary for the current NENDO. Edit: some COs may make this deadline earlier so they can submit any documents to/ask any questions of the TORIDAN before the official deadline.
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Post by G-Rex on Sept 1, 2016 10:31:47 GMT 9
right that's what i thought. i'm expecting october 14th, with our CO submission deadline like a week earlier i bet.
thanks thanks
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 1, 2016 10:36:43 GMT 9
Yesterday an ALT emailed me asking about transfer procedures cause he wants my job.
He's also a first year though which is very ?????? to me.
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Post by King Quailbee on Sept 1, 2016 13:30:19 GMT 9
Yesterday an ALT emailed me asking about transfer procedures cause he wants my job. He's also a first year though which is very ?????? to me.
Them ALTs throwing serious shade.
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Post by songbanana on Sept 2, 2016 18:58:32 GMT 9
Every year someone asked me about transferring to CIR at Tokyo Orientation
can you like
get to your CO first
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Post by dosanko on Sept 3, 2016 9:09:30 GMT 9
I used to get e-mails asking about ALT-to-CIR transfer opportunities EXCEPT FOR to my position (PA) so I was kind of happily relieved when my successor (whom I knew wanted my job) did decide to go for it
I don't want to even imagine what could have happened if no one actually ended up wanting my job
(Disaster, that's what)
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Post by Miscreative on Jan 16, 2017 16:26:32 GMT 9
Question from one of my ALTs
Context: I am a PA by technicality and on paper only. My office (the foreign affairs division) and the BOE want me to literally do nothing. It was to the point where this ALT was coming to me because their (non JET) ALT PA went MIA and there was no outlined support network. I then had my super call the BOE and they had no idea who I was or why the ALT was coming to me.
It seems like the BOE doesn't actually want to support the ALTs and are only doing the bare minimum so that on paper they "are doing everything they are supposed to"
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Post by Hokuto on Jan 17, 2017 8:58:13 GMT 9
Question from one of my ALTs Context: I am a PA by technicality and on paper only. My office (the foreign affairs division) and the BOE want me to literally do nothing. It was to the point where this ALT was coming to me because their (non JET) ALT PA went MIA and there was no outlined support network. I then had my super call the BOE and they had no idea who I was or why the ALT was coming to me. It seems like the BOE doesn't actually want to support the ALTs and are only doing the bare minimum so that on paper they "are doing everything they are supposed to" explain this to them and have them complain to c.lair? |
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Post by Cantamen on Sept 26, 2017 10:16:33 GMT 9
I am not a PA, but I came back from SHUCHO to a bunch of emails, one of which was a request for me to go help a (no-Japanese) ALT talk to a company about a bill.
The email had my name, but don't know the ALT involved, so it is maybe a misunderstanding on the part of the Japanese person who wrote the email, and they wanted our CIR PA, who works in the same town as me. Maybe I should forward it to him?
That said, I'm totally happy to help if it's allowed- so long as it counts as work. Free time? Not so much. Do you think I could use work time for this? (As I'd actually like to be the PA in the future, this would be a good experience.) |
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Post by Sparkles on Sept 26, 2017 13:51:16 GMT 9
Cantamen -- consult your supervisor? give your CIR/PA a call and discuss it with him? Only do it if it's for work, though, as soon as you let one of those kind of requests slide as "not work" you'll never be able to go back. I need those kinds of boundaries as a PA in order to stay sane. (It's different when an ALT I'm close with asks me personally/outside of work because then it's not in my capacity as a PA, but I wouldn't do it for anyone at the "relative stranger" or "acquaintance" level if it's not counted as work.) If the Japanese person who requested it is a colleague of the ALT (like a JTE or something) it should count for work, tbh.
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Post by Cantamen on Sept 26, 2017 14:44:50 GMT 9
Cantamen -- consult your supervisor? give your CIR/PA a call and discuss it with him? Only do it if it's for work, though, as soon as you let one of those kind of requests slide as "not work" you'll never be able to go back. I need those kinds of boundaries as a PA in order to stay sane. (It's different when an ALT I'm close with asks me personally/outside of work because then it's not in my capacity as a PA, but I wouldn't do it for anyone at the "relative stranger" or "acquaintance" level if it's not counted as work.) If the Japanese person who requested it is a colleague of the ALT (like a JTE or something) it should count for work, tbh. Supervisor said I can do it as work, yay! I have to wonder why they didn't ask the actual PA though... I guess it's fine? More TUUYAK experience. I have no idea who the Japanese person is in relation to the ALT. They just have a signature at the end with their family name and ka. |
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