Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Page Hall Room 60 (1810 College Rd.)
The East Asian Studies Center and the East Asian Alumni Network present:
Neal Myers
Mandarin Chinese Teacher
Mandarin Chinese Teacher
Hilliard City Schools
"Chinese Studies in My Life and Career"
Flyer: Oct4_flyer.pdf
Neal Myers will talk about his path taken and lessons learned, including:
- How did the study of Chinese or China-related programs help him and his career?
- How would his life and career have been different if he had studied a different or no foreign language?
- What part of Chinese studies did he find most interesting or challenging?
- What advice can he give to someone thinking about going into his career field?
Bio: Neal Myers has an International Studies and Chinese BA from The Ohio State University, as well as a Masters in Foreign Language Education. He has been a Mandarin Chinese Language teacher for middle and high school students for 7 years, and has taken 5 groups of high school students on educational tours of China. He has also been and ESL Teacher at Shandong Foreign Trade College in Qingdao, China for 4 years. He is currently Treasurer for the Ohio Association of Teachers of Chinese (OATC), and was a development member for the CAAP proficiency testing for the State of Ohio.
Free and open to the public
This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant to the OSU East Asian Studies Center.