Getting to Shizuoka Japan didn't even take an entire audio book, but it came close at 17 & half hours of non-stop travel. I was met at the airport by Tomohiro Takeyabashi, a graduate student working towards his PhD in STEM education. He taught for 7 years in upper elementary and middle school and is currently working at the Shizuoka Children's Museum in designing STEM exhibits and educational lessons for students on field trips and home schools. His specialty is teaching about earth science and Japan is the best place in the world to teach about earth quakes and volcanoes. I learned that you can expect at least two earth quakes a month, so here's to hoping one hits while I'm here! (Let's hope for a little one, nothing over 5 on the Richter magnitude scale please.)
Tomorrow I teach at the Shizuoka STEM Academy and there will be twenty middle school students in the 2 hour long class. I also learned there will 20-30 faculty observers and graduate students there too, yikes wish me luck. Tomohiro will be there with me tomorrow and he's going to be my main interpreter. We went through my slides for teaching class and made a couple of small changes to the kanji to make more sense for the students. I'll post pictures of class and the cool engineering ideas the Japanese students design. Below is a picture of Tomohiro Takeyabashi when he met me at the Tokyo Haneda airport and escorted me to the the Shinkasen bullet train. His English is much better than my Japanese, but he was very kind helping me speak with correct sentence structure and pronunciation.
Tomorrow I teach at the Shizuoka STEM Academy and there will be twenty middle school students in the 2 hour long class. I also learned there will 20-30 faculty observers and graduate students there too, yikes wish me luck. Tomohiro will be there with me tomorrow and he's going to be my main interpreter. We went through my slides for teaching class and made a couple of small changes to the kanji to make more sense for the students. I'll post pictures of class and the cool engineering ideas the Japanese students design. Below is a picture of Tomohiro Takeyabashi when he met me at the Tokyo Haneda airport and escorted me to the the Shinkasen bullet train. His English is much better than my Japanese, but he was very kind helping me speak with correct sentence structure and pronunciation.