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Seems like, in Japan, a teacher must oversee club activities at all times regardless of the existance of a coach, simply because of the fact that, if something goes wrong, someone needs to be held responsible.
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Smaller clubs it is homeroom and other native teachers. For our more successful clubs, we have professionals teaching them.
Yes to both. There’s both a coach for the sport, and a teacher for the purposes you mentioned.
We have a permanent professional volleyball coach who also does a ton of event planning and monitors some other aspects of student life.
We also have temp trainers come in for training the basketball club. I should probably offer to help out but it’s been a long time since I played basketball
Private schools with more money (or schools that are known for a particularly sport and have a strong/powerful alumni association) may hire full time coaches.
If that coach is an actual official employee of the school they may be responsible for everything.
If not, then a teacher will almost always be designated as reponsible.
Currently, as part of the effort to improve teachers’ working conditions, Mext is promoting the shift from school oversight to community oversight. However the progress being made here is still in its initial stages and there isn’t any clear answer as to how such a system will actually work.
Also, in general, to what extent a teacher is physically present (vs. nearby / there in spirit) will depend a lot on area as well as whether it is a JHS or SHS. Though the general trend is (for legal protection) that teachers are physically at the practice or very nearby.
More times than not, a local coach is available to volunteer or parents will do it. In some cases, teachers are specialized in a sport and can do it. But in almost all cases, a teacher is there to help manage entries and also any memberships.
For example, local parents and I are the coaches, but any sort of entry and point management is handled by a teacher assigned to the alpine ski team. It’s incredibly draining on the teachers because they are not there to directly help manage and see the system in action and a little unfair because the parents and coaches should be mapping the direction of the athlete.