Shoko Kasumi
I have been working in Lehigh University since the spring of 1996.   I taught Japanese 011 and 012 in the past but now I’m responsible for teaching Japanese 141 and 142 this year.   I taught  for one year at Havarford University
prior to coming to Lehigh.  I also have been teaching Japanese at the Japanese Weekend School in Philadelphia since 1993.
    I was born in Nagoya and I have three siblings.  I majored in Socioeconomics at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, and also obtained middle school and high school teaching certificates.     After I gave birth to three sons, we moved to Australia then to Allentown PA.  I was stay-home mother, and experienced many cultural differences while raising my three sons here.  I became a Japanese instructor nine years ago, and have attended Princeton pedagogy workshop.  I have studied at Columbia University's masters program about Japanese pedagogy.  I have always intended to teach Japanese, and through that I thought I could introduce Japan.  But now Japan is the "ANIME" age.  Young students constantly needs to be touched by "alive"(up to date) Japanese.  I want to aim at a well balanced education.