JETAA Chicago March Open Board Meeting and 2025 Officer Elections

JETAA Chicago invites our JET alumni community to join our virtual March Open Board Meeting (OBM) and 2025 Officer Elections on Monday, March 3rd at 6:30 pm CST!

Full details for the 2025 JETAA Chicago elections are below:

The platforms submitted by the 2025 candidates can be reviewed here!

Sign up to receive your ballot here!

For those interested in participating in the election, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• You must be a member of JETAA Chicago and its subchapters, claiming residency in Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin, to vote. You will be asked to confirm your status when completing your ballot.

• All votes will be cast online using an electronic ballot. Sign up here to receive your ballot.

• Our elections are being monitored by an impartial third party from outside our chapter.

• You do not need to attend the OBM to vote.

• Voting will be open from 12:00PM CST until 7:30PM CST on Monday, 3/3. The incoming/continuing officers will be announced at the OBM after this time.

  
  

For details on each officer position, please see the descriptions here. Even if you can't attend the meeting, we would still appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to cast your ballot and help vote in the next generation of JETAA Chicago leadership!

Sign up to attend the Open Board Meeting here!

Japanese teacher workshop hosted by IATJ in collaboration with the Japan Information Center

This event was shared with us by the Illinois Association of Teachers of Japanese (IATJ).

IATJ holds a Japanese teacher workshop in collaboration with the Japan Information Center each spring. The topic of the workshop this year is Japanese language curricula in high school. See details and sign up below!

Please note that the workshop is conducted partly in Japanese and partly in English.   

【JIC-IATJ共催 春季日本語教師研修会】

日時：2025年3月9日（日）午後1時〜午後４時３０分

場所：在シカゴ日本国総領事館広報文化センター講堂(10階)

Japan Information Center, Consulate-General of Japan in Chicago, Suite 1000(10th Fl.), 737 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611

参加費：無料

概要、およびプログラム

参加登録：リンクより3月8日午後5時（米中部時間）までにお申し込みください。

Japanese instructors needed at the Japan America Society of Chicago!

The Japan America Society of Chicago is currently working on expanding their online Japanese classes, and are seeking additional instructors to teach the below level classes. They are looking for fluent Japanese speakers, who have experience teaching Japanese either in-person or online. They can provide all class materials and a class syllabus for review. 

Their upcoming Winter II session will be held from March 3- April 10, 2025 (6 weeks). 

Beginning I - TUES 7:30-9:30 pm (day and time flexible) 

Beginning II - TUES 7:30-9:30 pm 

Beginning V - MON 7:30-9:30 pm 

Beginning VIII - WED 7:30-9:30 pm 

If interested, please email Erika Kono at kono@jaschicago.org.