Description of Activities

Support of school extracurricular (club) activities at a junior high or high school under the leadership of the school principal.

Examples of activities:

• Assisting in skills instruction.
• Providing instruction in knowledge and skills on safety and injury prevention.
• Acting as guardians to students during activities outside of school (tournaments, practice games, etc.)
• Assisting in the inspection and management of equipment and facilities.
• Engaging in the development of yearly and monthly instruction plans.
• Supervising activities on-site in the event of an accident.

Support of teachers through administrative work, such as assistant to the vice principal, school support staff, etc.

Examples of activities:

• Preparing materials to be used in class, such as printing teaching materials, etc.
• Receiving and checking assignments, etc., turned in by students.
• Assistance in grading quizzes, etc.
• Assistance in preparing for school events, ceremonies, etc.
• Handling telephone calls and visitor reception.
• Printing, sorting, etc., of handouts to parents and guardians.

Support of children and students with developmental disabilities or who require assistance in mobility when engaging in school activities, such as help in taking meals, going to the bathroom and in moving between classrooms.

Examples of activities:

• Assisting children and students with physical disabilities at the Tokyo Metropolitan Schools for Special Needs Education.
  (Transfer assistance, meal and/or bathroom assistance, teaching assistance, etc.)
• Services necessary to facilitate special needs class management.
  (Liaison and coordination services, reporting on behavioral observations and maintaining guidance records, teaching material development and related administrative work processing.)

School Counselor

Engaging in activities as a member of the school organization, including those aimed at the betterment of educational counseling; counseling children and students, guardians, teachers, and training schoolteachers, etc.

Examples of activities:

• Counseling for children and students.
• Support and advice concerning counseling, etc., for teachers and guardians.
• Collecting information concerning student counseling, etc.

School Social Worker

Works to resolve issues for students with problems, using their expert knowledge and skills in education and social welfare and employing a wide range of support methods, including taking action to improve the environment surrounding such students and building networks with relevant institutions, etc.

Examples of activities:

• Taking action to improve the environment surrounding students with issues.
• Developing networks with relevant institutions, etc., and engaging in other liaison and coordination activities.
• Developing and supporting team organization within the school.
• Supporting, counseling and providing information to guardians, teachers, etc.
• Training teachers and other school personnel, etc.

Assisting in the betterment of Japanese language instruction to foreign national children and students at the public schools in Tokyo who require this instruction in order to adapt to everyday living in Japan and enrich their lives at school.

Examples of activities:

• Assisting in Japanese language instruction and school textbook instruction conducted by Japanese-language teachers.
• Supporting children and students through translation, interpreting and teaching in their native language, if possible
• Acting as a liaison and coordinating between the school and non-Japanese guardians in their native language.

Providing support for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching, training and school affairs management, while consulting with and responding to inquiries from teachers.

Examples of activities:

• Installing, operating and explaining how to use ICT equipment and software.
• Introducing equipment, software and teaching materials and counseling on their effective use.
• Introducing teaching materials on information ethics, case studies, etc., and counseling on the effective use of ICT.
• Supporting the development of digital teaching materials, etc.
• Providing primary equipment maintenance.

In addition to the above activities, schools also are seeking support in a wide range of other areas.

Examples of activities:

• Engaging in support and career education activities and promoting international understanding.
• Providing support in environmental education.
• Providing swimming instruction.
• Science support personnel.
• School library instructor.
• Supporting educational activities outside of the school.