第８４回 WORKSHOP報告（６月７日） / 参加者８４名
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《 今回のworkshop 》
○workshop参加人数：８４名（うち新人の方：１２名）
○【前半】：”Let’s discover a resource for tourism”というテーマでディスカッション
○【後半】：”To what extent can we prioritize personal matters over work?”というテーマでディスカッション
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６月７日（土）開催の第８４回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。
今回は前半のマテリアルをＴさん、後半のマテリアルをＮさんにご作成いただきました。
前半は”Let’s discover a resource for tourism”
後半は”To what extent can we prioritize personal matters over work?”というテーマでディスカッションを行います。
[今週のマテリアル]
＜FIRST HALF＞
Hello, everyone. My name is T.
Today’s topic is “Let’s discover a resource for tourism”
There are lots of development project in Area called ‘Machiokoshi’, for example, showa-cho, tondabayashi.
There are historical buildings and landscape. People who live there developed attractive thing of the town and then introduce the value to many people.
On the other hand, ‘Machiokoshi’ become major activity in many towns using ‘Yuru-chara’ or ‘B-kyu gourmet’.
There are success cases and failure cases. It’s not success to imitate the success cases.
So, today, let’s think about new ‘Machiokoshi’. We can create a resource for tourism and promote the area.
I hope you create good resource of the town to attract people!
<Prerequisite>
You are project member of ‘Machiokoshi’.
<Procedure>
1) Please think resource of your hometown for tourism or new idea for ‘Machiokoshi’ and list it.
2) Share your idea of resources to your group members and discuss the appeal point.
3) Choose some resource in your group.
4) Discuss why did you choose the resource and how to promote for tourism.
(Discuss merit and demerit, etc)
5) Write project plan for area promotion by use of resource.
(You have to think about following things.
Title, Cost, Who pay the cost? How about income? Can citizen join? Is it sustainable?)
＜LATTER HALF＞
Agenda:【To what extent can we prioritize personal matters over work? 】
Q1: 〔Case of school HR teacher〕
What do you think of the teacher in ARTICLE A?
Is it acceptable if the teacher is your child’s HR teacher?
<ARTICLE A : Teacher criticized for attending son’s entrance ceremony instead of her own school’s>
Q2: 〔Case of the manager in your workplace〕
If your manager takes leave for attending his/her child’s entrance celemony and your manager can’t attend a very important meeting with customers, what do you think of your manager? Is it acceptable to you?
Q3: 〔Case of school HR teacher〕
What do you think of the teacher in ARTICLE B?
Is it acceptable if the teacher is your child’s HR teacher?
<ARTICLE B: Teacher takes leave on PTA day to appear on music program>
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140517p2a00m0na016000c.html
Q4: 〔Case of the manager in your workplace〕
If your manager takes leave for appearing on music program（NHK Nodojiman）and your manager can’t attend a very important meeting with customers, what do you think of your manager? Is it acceptable to you?
Q5:
Please make your priority list in your life with three elements below.
Then tell the order and why ( how important the top priority is to you) one by one.
1: your own interests (hobbies)
2: family matters
3: work
<ARTICLE A>
Teacher criticized for attending son’s entrance ceremony instead of her own school’s
By Casey Baseel Apr. 16, 2014 – 06:24AM JST TOKYO –
Each April, as the new academic year starts, it’s customary for schools in Japan to hold an entrance ceremony for incoming students. The new pupils assemble in the auditorium, sit quietly while the principal and teachers make speeches, and often sing the alma mater.
For the students, listening to a bunch of grown-ups drone on about the value of education isn’t exactly riveting, and it’s debatable if the words of wisdom that are imparted really make any difference at all in their academic careers. For parents, though, this is a special day. They can appreciate the ceremony as the rite of passage it is, and it gives them an excuse to snap a picture with their child wearing their brand new uniform, which will quickly become too small for them as they grow up all too soon.
It’s a sentiment any parent can feel, even – or perhaps especially – parents who are educators themselves. However, one high school teacher in Japan is being publicly criticized for skipping her school’s entrance ceremony to attend her son’s, instead.
The unnamed woman, who is in her 50s, teaches at a prefectural high school in Saitama, where this year she also serves as homeroom teacher for a batch of incoming freshman. Ordinarily, educators in this position attend the entrance ceremony and officially greet their new charges. However, the date of the entrance exam of the school where the woman teaches coincided with that of the high school where her eldest son has recently begun studying.
Teaching children may be all about preparing them for the myriad possibilities of adult life, but that doesn’t mean the teacher in question is capable of breaking the laws of reality, and the timing of the two events left her unable to attend both. Deciding to prioritize her son’s ceremony, she chose not to attend her own school’s, so took the morning off to attend.
At the ceremony, the principal explained her absence, and another teacher passed out copies of a written greeting to the absent teacher’s students, which said, “As your homeroom teacher, I am deeply sorry to be unable to greet you all in person on the important day of your entrance ceremony.”
Apparently this wasn’t enough in some people’s eyes, as at least one parent is reported to have expressed puzzlement, saying, “Do teachers these days think their son’s entrance exam is more important than their own students?”
The woman’s absence seems to have struck a particularly sensitive nerve with Koichi Gono, a Saitama prefectural assemblyman who was a guest at her school’s ceremony. “She is lacking in appreciation of her duties as a homeroom teacher, and also in ethics as an educator,” he fumed. “This also gives me doubts as to the administrative capabilities of the school’s principal.”
The woman wasn’t the only teacher to pass on her employer’s ceremony for familial reasons, as three other Saitama prefectural high school educators took time off to do likewise, attracting the attention of the prefecture’s Board of Education. Chairman Kunimitsu Sekine passed along what he called “the worry felt by students and guardians who noticed their homeroom teachers were not in attendance,” and the body itself issued a statement imploring educators to “think of themselves as teachers, first and foremost, when choosing a course of action.”
Not too long ago, this might have been a cut-and-dried case in Japanese society, which has traditionally held that the group should be given priority over the individual, especially in cases of work responsibilities versus family time. Internet comments, though, show the shift that’s occurring in Japanese culture regarding work/life balance, as many felt the teacher who chose to attend her son’s ceremony had done no wrong.
“I’m hoping to become a teacher in Saitama in the future, but this news makes me sad. Just as the new students’ parents should care for their children, so too should this teacher care for her own son.”
“Making such a big deal out of this because one prominent person [Gono], who isn’t even part of the organization, got upset is dumb. Saying she has a lack of morals is just spiteful and nasty.”
“I think [Gono] is being completely unreasonable.”
Blogger Hayato Ikeda hypothesized that the students whose teachers were absent are unlikely to think anything other than, “Oh, my teacher has a kid.” One could even make the argument that this knowledge would help both pupils and parents more empathetically communicate with their teachers, with the assumed understanding that they have a current, contemporary understanding of the difficulties and concerns of the parent/teen relationship.
<ARTICLE B>
Teacher takes leave on PTA day to appear on music program
A teacher at a public junior high school in the Chubu region took leave to appear on a music television program on her school’s PTA day, it has been learned.
The teacher’s actions come on the heels of a controversial case in which teachers in Saitama Prefecture attended their own children’s entrance ceremonies instead of the ones at the schools where they worked. The cases raise questions about the proper conduct of educators.
The junior high school teacher, who is in her 50s, took leave to attend a live broadcast of NHK’s Amateur Singing Contest this spring. That day her school was holding activities that included parents observing class and a PTA meeting.
Students and their parents weren’t told about the teacher’s absence in advance. At the PTA meeting, the school’s principal only explained that the teacher was absent because she was busy with something else. Another teacher filled in for her.
A source at the school said the date of the observation day was decided in January this year. Afterwards the teacher applied to take leave, and the principal granted her request.
“The teacher was worried that the class observation day overlapped with the day she wanted to take off. It wasn’t the most desirable situation, but I thought it would be better to grant the leave and have the teacher devote herself to her teaching than deny the leave and lower her morale,” the principal said. “There have been no complaints about the matter from students or parents.”
Critic Yukio Akatsuka, however, questioned the teacher’s actions.
“Although there may not have been a problem with procedure, I cannot help but be doubtful about the correctness of a teacher putting their personal life ahead of important events where parents come to the school. Teachers have to be aware of their duties. I also have reservations about the decision of the principal to grant the leave.”
A representative for the board of education of the municipality where the school is located commented, “If the principal gave the OK, we believe that it was the correct decision.”
Lawyer Seiki Ito, who is knowledgeable about labor issues, acknowledged the view that teachers should set a good example and that opinion on the matter is divided, but said, “Being able to take time off is a right that should be recognized, and if a teacher makes sure that it doesn’t adversely affect their class and goes through the official procedures and gets permission from their boss, there is nothing legally wrong with it.”
May 17, 2014(Mainichi Japan)
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