Rushton Hurley graduated with a degree in history from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where he focused on Asian religious history. After spending three years in Japan and Australia, he returned to the United States to do graduate work at Stanford University. He has master's degrees in Education and East Asian Studies.
Mr. Hurley began teaching Japanese at Silver Creek High School in San Jose, California, in the fall of 1993. Over eight years, he built one of the largest Japanese language programs in the country and explored a variety of projects, including a research program focusing on the applications of speech recognition technology in beginning language learning.
In the summer of 2001, Mr. Hurley returned to San Antonio, Texas, where he began working with charter schools. After a semester as principal of the Jubilee Academic Center, he was tapped to head a Texas Education Agency pilot project for an online high school with the Southwest Preparatory Virtual School, where he works now as principal.
In addition to languages and technology, Mr. Hurley is an avid juggler. He credits whatever ability he has to the tutelage of Mr. Matthew Hall, with whom he taught Japanese at Silver Creek.
The presenter, Rushton Hurley, built one of the largest high school Japanese language programs in the U.S. at Silver Creek High School in San Jose, California, in the 1990s. He will focus on what made the program popular and how the success might be duplicated elsewhere. The discussion will cover pace of instruction, activities outside of the classroom, incorporating technology meaningfully, and pursuing support for your program.
Rushton sensei's paper is at
http://www.jlang.org/benkyookai/
or
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/rushton.html
So read the paper above and go to TAPPED IN. There, you will be able to discuss this topic with Rushton-sensei and others from around the world. TAPPED IN is open to everybody and the presentation will be done in English.
This event is open to anybody who is interested in the topic. It will be at After School Online Room at http://www.tappedin.org
Instructions to log in as a guest and get to the After School Online Room:
1. Go to http://www.tappedin.org
2. Click the "Guest Login" Button on the TAPPED IN home page
3. Be patient while loading
4. When prompted in the bottom window, erase the text next to the word SAY, and type your name and hit return.
5. When loading is done, you will be in the Reception area.
6. To talk, type in the message in the window next to the word SAY. Then press the SEND button or the ENTER key
7. In order to get to After School Online room, you can click on After School Online in the map.
Download and print this document. It will explain the interface really well. http://www.tappedin.sri.com/info/docs/TAPestry3.pdf
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