Chaperon Selection and Application Process
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Chaperon Selection Process & Criteria
Ketchikan, Alaska – Kanayama, Japan Two-to-Three Week Visit in June CHAPERON APPLICATION CHECKLIST:
Applications must be completed by October 31 at 5pm with the following: 1. Chaperon Application 2. Four references, including current employer Students in the 8th grade and their chaperones will be given the opportunity to live with host families, visit the schools and other points of interest in Kanayama area and Gero city, Japan, in June after the current school year ends. We will select up to four adult chaperones. If possible we would like one of the applicants to be a school district employee. Applications must be postmarked, electronically submitted, or turned in to Schoenbar Middle School by October 31 of the current year. Selection of chaperones will be made from applications submitted to the Ketchikan Gero Kanayama Exchange Association by the Selection Committee and is based on the following: STEP 1 - Application Process
STEP 4 - Chaperone Selection
What is expected of chaperons?
The Ketchikan Gero Exchange Association expects the chaperones of the exchange group to be ideal role models by exhibiting exemplary behavior and cooperation with students, parents, communities, and schools both in Ketchikan and Japan. You must be engaged and participate in all planning and fundraising events, participate on a committee; host communities, and be willing to host a Japanese visitor; regularly attend Sunday classes with students to learn culture and language, and build relationships of trust and respect between the students and chaperones. Be fully committed to the program, submit to the organization’s decisions regarding the exchange, and understand that your chaperone duties are the primary reason for going to Japan. Display leadership qualities, be respectful, mature and courteous. Refrain from using inappropriate language. Be organized and able to work in cooperation with other chaperones, parents, students, exchange board members, and community businesses and host organizations. Be flexible and accepting of cultural differences, and fully comply with all Japanese laws, and all rules and customs of the host family with whom you are placed. Be neat and clean in personal hygiene, in good health, and properly dressed during activities scheduled both by the program and by host organizations. Refrain from drinking and engaging in other inappropriate activities while in the presence of the students. Refrain from drinking in excess when with host families or at other activities held solely for group adults while students are in the care of their respective host families. Be willing to take responsibility for the students while traveling. You will help oversee all students in the group, and will be in charge of a small group of students while traveling. Chaperones will be the primary contact from/to parents and the board. Upon return, be willing to share your personal experiences with Ketchikan Borough Assembly, Ketchikan School Board and the Ketchikan-Gero Exchange Association. Head Chaperon:
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