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[Juana Evink]

Hello, everyone.

I'm currently teaching 6th Grade Social Studies at John Muir MS in South LA. I have taken about 4-5 USC Seminars on Asia and I have learned and truly enjoyed all of them. I'm looking forward to this seminar on the Two Koreas, to expand my knowledge of Korea and Asia. I have always being fascinated by Asian culture and civilizations. As an  ancient civilizations teacher, I teach a unit of Japan and China, with minimum mention of Korea on the Standards. I want to include more information on Korea, becuase it's an amazing civilization.

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[Jane Hannon]

Hello, my name is Jane Hannon and I am the head of the history department at Georgetown Visitation, a Catholic girls' high school in Washington, D.C. Next year I will be teaching tenth-grade Modern World History and ninth-grade Global Patterns. Since enrolling in my first NCTA seminar at CU-Boulder a few years ago, I have been working to expand and deepen the coverage of East Asia in my courses. My students always have lots of questions about North Korea, so I am eager to enhance my knowledge. 

[Karen Keever]

Hi everyone! I teach World History and US History at Cedar Middle School in Hesperia, Ca. Last year was my first year teaching 7th grade History, and I am looking forward to learning about both Koreas. There was not a lot of focus on Korea as a whole, as I really do not know very much about Korean History, but hoping to change that. 

[Maria Cardenas]

Hello. My name is Maria Cardenas. I have only taught 8th grade U.S. History at John Muir Middle School in South LA and this upcoming school year I will be teaching all three grade levels 6-8. I konw I will be teaching about Korea and I want to know more about Korea's history. I took a class about the Korean War when I studied abroad in Summer of 2012 in South Korea. I enjoyed the class so I am sure I will enjoy this and learn about Two Korea's.   

[Hilda Dixon]

Hi everybody, my name is Hilda Dixon. I teach at Murchison Street Elementary in East Los Angeles. I am also a special education teacher who currently teaches students with intelligence disabilities. I teach all subjects. This is my second time that I have participated in the USC China Institute forums. I really enjoyed listening to all the well versed professors and the readings that were assigned to us. I genuinely get pleasure from learning history and connecting bits of history into other times and spaces and into other areas as well.Hi everybody, my name is Hilda Dixon. I teach at Murchison Street Elementary in East Los Angeles. I am also a special education teacher who currently teaches students with intelligence disabilities. I teach all subjects. This is my second time that I have participated in the USC China Institute forums. I really enjoyed listening to all the well versed professors and the readings that were assigned to us. I genuinely get pleasure from learning history and connecting bits of history into other times and spaces and into other areas as well.

[Jonathon Allen]

Hi, everyone!  My name is Jonathon Allen and I am the Department Chair of History and Social Sciences at an independent girls' school in Los Angeles, CA.  I also teach AP World History and a Spring elective entitled "Contemporary Asian Culture and Society."  Our school is very close to Koreatown and we have many students who are eager to learn more about their own heritage in our history classrooms.  Korea doesn't often "appear" in history classes until the mid-20th century so, in addition to this class, I'm working on introducing Korea earlier in our World History courses.  Given our current national criticism over what is & isn't being taught in school, I'm really excited to learn more about the Korean peninsula and introduce content and activities that will continue to expand my students' worldview.  (I've also just watched Ode to my Father for the first time and I found it to be so beautiful and layered in its treatment of Korean history from 1950 - present, but I digress ...)

[Kimberly de Berzunza]

Hi everyone! My name is Kimberly de Berzunza and I teach middle school social studies in Spanish at Longfellow Spanish Immersion school in San Diego. Most years I teach grades 6-8, which includes Ancient World, Medieval World, and US History. Last summer I attended the USC US-China Institute's seminar "Gender and Generation in Asia" and learned a ton, and I'm really excited for this seminar on the Two Koreas! I have been trying for the past few years to learn more about Korea since it was added to our state framework and I know so little about it. I am fascinated to learn more about these two nations sitting side-by-side with the same roots and such vastly different outcomes today.

[Deborah Whetstone]

Hello!  My name is Debbie Whetstone.  I teach grades 9-12 at Florida State University Schools - a Development & Research School attached to FSU, in Tallahassee, Florida. I'm currently teaching AP Human Geography, Law Studies, and Comparative Political Systems, though most of my career has also included World History.  As others stated, students have many questions about the two Koreas, and I am always trying to learn more to help explain the circumstances on the peninsula.

[Andrea Stetler]

Hello. I am Andrea Stetler and I have taught and will teach various social science courses at a high school in the Mojave Desert of California. I have had the pleasure of attending several day-long workshops at the USC U.S.- China Institute, but his is my first online seminar (outside of a couple of webcasts this summer). My interest in Asia comes from the subjects I teach, but also from having grown up in Japan. I look forward to learning more about the Korean Peninsula.

 

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