Research Center for Advanced Professional Development in School Education At this Center, efforts are made to improve and enrich curricula to prepare students to become teachers, and to upgrade in-service training programs for teachers, in order to help train and develop school-education professionals capable of meeting the needs of society and local communities. The center also aims to contribute to the promotion of integrated reform of teacher development, employment, and training. Through efforts to promote practice teaching and clinical, practical, and developmental research, as well as to improve and further develop curricula and training programs for both students and in-service teachers, the Center supports life-wide integrated competence development within the teaching profession.

Research Center for Bullying-Prevention, Guidance and Counseling The purpose of the Research Center for Bullying-Prevention, Guidance and Counseling is to contribute to the improvement, enrichment, and development of school education, by promoting theoretical, practical, and developmental research on various issues related to the practice of school education, including bullying, school refusal, and student guidance, in cooperation with other educational institutions and schools, and the local community. The Center is involved in activities that contribute to practical and research efforts in schools, such as SLQ(School Life Questionnaire) and analysis for the prevention and early detection of bullying, holding workshops to help people understand the relevant laws and regulations, and providing educational consultation and support.

University Health Center The University Health Center was established to promote and preserve the health of the students, faculty and staff. In order to evaluate the mental and physical health of the staff and students, the doctor and nurses give periodic health examinations as well as guidance and counseling, in addition to administering first aid for various illnesses and injuries.

Center for Information and Multimedia Education The university established the Center for Information and Multimedia Education for the purpose to carry out comprehensive promotion of information education as well as smooth controlling and operation of the information system and network, in addition to contribute various operations for education, research, management and administrative operations. Along with the policy to achieve these purposes, the Center operates "on-campus LAN system connected to the Internet" and "various operational rooms to support education and research" in order to backup learning, educational and research operations by providing the most updated facilities.

Psychological Counseling Center The Psychological Counseling Center was established to meet the social needs for psychological clinical consultation. The Center also conducts the education and training of graduate students in this area, and thereby contributies to the promotion of practical education and research in the field of clinical psychology. Mainly graduate students provide play therapy for infants and children, clinical psychological interviews for adults, and other services at the center under the supervision of our faculty members who are certified psychologists or clinical psychologists.

Research and Praxis Center for Special Needs Education The purposes of this center are to promote practical education and research in the field of special needs education, and to provide training for teachers at special needs schools and other institutions. The center conducts research and provides guidance, with the aim of cultivating teachers with higher levels of evaluation and instruction methods, accumulating clinical experience through individual guidance and small-group guidance of children with special educational needs.

International Exchange Center The purpose of the International Exchange Center is to develop teachers with an international perspective, by promoting student exchange and academic exchange across international borders, and by collaborating with local schools and communities. The center aims to improve the quality of teacher training in terms of intercultural communication skills and cross-cultural understanding, and offers classes to allow students to come into direct contact with overseas education and culture, as well as promoting overseas study. In addition, the center provides support for various initiatives, such as dispatching teaching staff members overseas and accepting researchers from abroad, in order to promote research on school education and educator training at the international level. The center is also involved in regional efforts related to learning support for elementary through high school students with foreign backgrounds.

General Student Support Office The purpose of this office is to build a general system to support students in terms of their learning, employment, and lifestyles, as well as to ensure this system functions in practice. Consisting mainly of the heads of internal committees and organizations providing student support and the chiefs of administrative sections, the office members plan measures for comprehensive student support and perform tasks concerning collaborative activities of student support organizations. The functions of the Office include the planning of measures for comprehensive student support, and the handling of affairs concerning cooperation among relevant organizations involved with student support.

Support Office for School Practice Training and Volunteer Activities The purposes of this office include support and crisis management for the smooth implementation of students' practice teaching, school practice training, and volunteer activities. The support office provides answers and solutions for students engaging in practice teaching or school practice training, and for their instructors, working to assist with questions and concerns, as well as helping with coordination with the schools accepting them. For volunteer activities, the office offers guidance and support for students taking courses related to volunteer activities that are deemed class subjects, as well as providing introductions to educational volunteer activities that are not included in class subjects and various other volunteer activities, and handling coordination with where they will be volunteering.

Placement Plaza This office plans and implements events and programs that aim to provide students and graduates with guidance and support related to job-seeking and employment, in addition to collecting, analyzing, and providing employment-related information. Employment support at the Joetsu University of Education includes career coordination by former public school principals or educational administration, providing individual guidance to meet each student's needs as part of their preparation for teacher employment examinations, public service employment examinations, and other examinations, as well as other detailed guidance and support.

Support Office for Students with Disabilities The purpose of this office is to improve the university-wide support structure for students with disabilities, to facilitate unhindered learning. The office works in collaboration with relevant departments and organizations, both within and outside the university, to offer consultation services, provide information, plan and implement training programs related to support for students with disabilities, and conduct other related activities.

Advanced Research Center on Subject Content Against a backdrop of the universal and national challenge of building a knowledge-based society in the era of globalization, the Advanced Research Center on Subject Content aims to conduct research on, and development of, subject content for the next generation, based on specialized knowledge of leading-edge scientific fields, utilizing advanced technology, with the goal of anticipating issues concerning future subject content (including official guidelines for school teaching). The Center provides support for both undergraduate and graduate programs for qualitative improvements on subject content research and the development of leading-edge content. It also aims to provide specialized knowledge to in-service teachers and residents of the community, and to promote cooperation between industry, academia, and government.

Research Center for Health Education The purpose of the Research Center for Health Education is to contribute to the promotion of health and food education at schools and in the local community. The Center serves as an organization to communicate the importance of, and promote the implementation of, health education, through efforts to integrate theory and practice regarding health education, while actively promoting industry-academia-government cooperation and regional cooperation, in addition to applying research results to education both inside and outside the university. The Center aims to serve as a research base to help provide more accurate and sophisticated health education, by promoting the development of health education and food education at schools in the future, and encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation among full-time teachers with backgrounds in medicine, nutrition science, nursing, physical fitness, and other related fields.

The Uehiro Academy of Moral Education [Endowed Research Section] In order to further improve moral education classes taught in schools, the academy staff provides free lectures at training sessions in Ishikawa and other prefectures organized by schools, boards of education, and education centers. In addition, with the cooperation from schools in Ishikawa, it provides open training sessions at schools serving as training bases. The academy also offers training courses for teachers and holds training conventions, in place of the former license renewal courses, for improving teaching quality. In these ways, the academy contributes to the development of solid moral education teaching skills.

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