David Bickel
I just finished my first year of teaching at Seoul Foreign School in Korea. (I have been teaching in other schools for over three decades.) I taught IB English SL, World Literature, and English II. I ended up returning to coaching at SFS as JV Girls basketball coach. It has been a long time since I had coached basketball. I have coached football, rugby, and baseball in between. Baseball was/is my favorite to play, coach, or watch. For years I umpired baseball in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Hong Kong. But since I went back to Asia in 2007, the umpire gear has gone unused. For years, it was my second job and first hobby.
I did my undergrad work at Concordia Teachers College (Nebraska) and have a MAT in Humanities-Comparative Literature and Aesthetics from the University of Texas at Dallas. I was born in Minneapolis, but only lived there a few weeks. I don’t remember it much. I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Lansing, Michigan, before high school years at Concordia College HS in Milwaukee, which disappeared the year after I graduated. I don’t believe it was a cause-and-effect event.
My work stops include:
- 2nd grade – Immanuel Lutheran, Sebewaing, Michigan (6)
- HS English and Art – Lutheran High School of Dallas (3)
- HS English – Hong Kong International School (5)
- College English – University of Maryland – Asian Division (2)
- HS English – Milwaukee Lutheran High School (4)
- College MBA module – Concordia University-Wisconsin (2)
- HS Humanities – Hong Kong International School (15)
- College Humanities and Performing Arts – Lansing (MI)Community College (2)
- College English – Davenport (MI) University (online) (2)
- HS English – Seoul Foreign School, South Korea (present)
Outside of work, I am partial to a canoe, paddle, and a river, fast or slow.
I am working the UW-Stout program as part of their program for online course design and teaching. I hope to be involved with online instruction as it continues to morph to what schools and classrooms need to be to be relative and available for all. In this course, I am interested in finding ways for assessment and analysis of learning to be a natural extension of of the learner’s domain as opposed to the teacher’s rule-of-thumb kingdom.
