The Research on the Effects of the Development of Competencies of Teacher Training Program through Clinical Education Practicum; the comparison by PAC analysis of graduates from master’s program.

This study is to verify the effectiveness of clinical training program in teacher training. The Center of Educational Research and Practice provides variation of practicum opportunities for the graduate students in teacher training program, aimed to enhance their competencies as a teacher. Data was collected by structured interview using PAC (Personal Attitude Construct) analysis to verify difference between three groups of six graduates who had no participation, partial participation, and full participation. The results showed partial and full participation group had built confidence in their assessment skills and intervention skills for children as well as ability to search for methods dealing with children and parents in school settings. Additionally, the full participation group, who experienced providing individual social skills training to children, showed higher confidence by systemizing their experience of training program in practice, and formed positive self-perception about own skills. However, all group showed difficulty in modifying the theory and methods they had learned into their practices

Manuscript for Hiroshima journal of school education

Abstract. The purpose of this research is to consider the desirable way of educational guidance that accepts diversity that will be required in the future in Japan by referring to Hawaii's educational practice that accepts diversity and tries to respond to the needs of all children. The authors visited K5 school, K6 school, and two K12 schools, and find how effective to do UDL, PBIS, and SEL. In this paper, the authors suggest what is important for the whole person education

Career development support in Singapore education system: The ECG approach

The aim of this paper is to examine the Education and Career Guidance (ECG) program in Singapore, and acquire implication for further development of Japanese carrier education. This research draws upon the previous studies and inspection tour in Singapore, focusing on the education system, structure of ECG, and implementation of ECG. The ECG program promotes lifelong learning ability to prepare the students for their future, provides three-tier-support system according to individual needs, deploys ECG counselor to promote the program, and assure the quality of the program and skills of ECG counselor and teachers by providing trainings. The finding implies that the future Japanese carrier education needs to deploy carrier education professionals, and provide the three tier-support system as well as to improve training system and implementation

Perspective transformation in case awareness of school counseling support staff : the case study from "Niko-niko room", the school psycho-educational support room.

Since 2007, The Center of Educational Research and Practice has implemented the school counseling program as part of teacher training course. As school counseling support staff, the students practices their counseling and social skill training skills to the clients. This paper is a case study of graduate and undergraduate students, who has participated in school psycho-educational support program; Niko-Niko room. Each cases showed the students' improvement in counseling or social skill training skills, and showed perspective transformation in case awareness

A Study of Counseling Based Corporative Learning : Results and Issues in the Introductory Period of Corporative Learning

This study shows issue of guidance of introducing cooperative learning. Before, during and after practicing eight-weeks counseling based cooperative learning model, 25 items questionnaire are administered 287 pupils who commute junior high school in Hiroshima-city. We find 4 factors - "cooperative skills", "learning efficacy", "pleasure of lessons" and "learning forwardness" - by factor analysis.Then we divide this data into low-scores, middle scores and high scores, and do Analysis of Variance. As a result, we find mutual interaction in all 4 factors, and we find effect of counseling based cooperative leaning model in low scores group.This study demonstrates how important improving guidance of communication and regulating of exercise level while introducing cooperative learning

The Effect of the Educational Clinical Program of "Niko Niko Room" on the Coordination and Consultation Skills of Teachers: An Analysis of SCAT for Graduate School Graduates

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an educational clinical guidance program on the formation of teachers' competence in coordination and consultation skills. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with graduates who had graduated from graduate school more than 10 years ago, and the interview data were analyzed by SCAT. As a result, it was suggested that the educational clinical guidance program promoted the formation of teachers' competence in coordination and consultation, and led to the practice of coordination of team support, cooperation with SC and SSW, and construction of educational consultation system

Training of school guidance and counselling workers in Japan : Concerns and challenge s for future development <Research Article>

In Japan, school guidance and counselling has shifted from problem-solving remedial services to a more developmental, preventive approach. With this approach, the aim of school guidance and counselling is regarded as establishing a system that helps students develop a positive identity through successful, rewarding learning experiences in a school that provides support and care. Toward this end, a holistic approach has been adopted, which involves the collaboration of different psychological specialists and education professionals with different training and qualifications. This paper examines current practices and the training systems of different school guidance and counselling workers in Japan. With reference to the framework suggested by Gysbers (2000), four components of an effective school guidance and counselling delivery system-guidance curriculum, individual student planning, responsive services, and system support-are adopted as the framework for analysis. Based on a training model developed by Kurihara (2010a; 2010b), the expected roles of different school guidance and counselling workers are reported. This paper also proposes recommendations for pre-service training, induction, and in-service professional development for school guidance and counselling workers