Wow- I guess I have been out of town too long and missed all the action. Mystery commentator, please do not ever speak for me or generalize on my behalf.
I enjoyed the class! I knew the expectations of the class and how intense the classes would be from a direct instruction perspective. I am pretty sure that Dube was trying to get us to obtain as much information as we could in a very short time. And that can be very tough if we are continually doing group work and coloring maps of Asia or discussing different teaching modalities regarding special ed students or whatever. And the class was not just about Japan-EAST ASIA SEMINAR, I believe was the topic.
In addition, each professor answered questions whenever we asked, each professor asked how we could implement these issues or subjects into our classrooms, especially Schaberg and Pitelka, so the discussion was there, although it was never engaged.
Thank you Miranda and Clayton for putting on the East-Asia seminar, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
ps. by the way I had to drive the farthest and I was a little tired from football practice when I was at class, but I gained NEW knowledge, something a teacher can never "been there, done that". Knowledge is King!
A wise man once said, "the day you stop learning, is the day you stop teaching".
M. Herrera
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