About Me
- O.Kimeru
- M.A. 1992 from U. of Chicago; Japan Foundation Fellow in 1987-88; research fellow Yokohama City University; Japanese language teacher since 1991; also taught French (member American Association of Teachers of French), English as a Second Language (to students), methodology of teaching ESL (to Japanese high school teachers), English, Japanese history/culture, drama; in 2002 and 2004, listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers; member of Chicago Sister Cities Osaka Committee, and chair of its Education Sub-Committee; vice-president Illinois Association of Teachers of Japanese; Payton H.S. World Language Department Chair from 2003-2007, under founding principal Mrs. Gail Ward; taught Japanese and coordinated Japan Exchange at Payton from 2003 to 2010; Japanese teacher at Burr Public School beginning August, 2010