Teaching Videos

Welcome to my language classroom!

In the video below, I have provided a video recording of a EFL lesson I conducted with a 5-year-old class of Japanese kindergarteners at one of the schools I work at in Japan. This lesson was recorded in October and is centered around the communicative objective of appropriately using the Halloween phrase: "Trick or Treat!" Throughout the video, I include brief pauses explaining the instructional methods I'm using, what activities students are engaging in, and the language objectives associated with those classroom tasks. I hope you enjoy my lesson!

Check out a short dance I choregraphed in Japan!

The demo video below presents a short clip taken from a hour jazz lesson I taught in Japan. At the end of a class I usually like to pick a student along with the other learners who we believe really embodies the energy of the piece we are performing. I feel that this promotes my students' ability to remember that we always have something to learn from each other and that its okay if we are not always the best, especially in a world as creative and versatile as dance. I also believe it allows the choosen student to realize the potentioal within themselves to be a great performer. In this clip I (in all black) perform off to the side of the dancer, as she, and the others, had just learned the piece about thirty minutes prior to this video being recorded.