Devon Gorman Email & Phone Number

Ginoza, Okinawa

Assistant Language Teachers (ALT) are placed in primary and secondary schools all across Japan to assit with foriegn language instruction. In most cases English is the foriegn language being taught. ALTs work alongside Japanese Teachers of English/Language (JTEs/JTLs) or Homeroom Teachers (HT) to team-teach language courses. Typical duties for an ALT include, team-teaching and/or assisting with classes taught by JTEs/JTLs and HTs, assisting in the preparation of teaching materials, and participating in extra-curricular activities with students.

Canyon De Chelly National Monument

The Student Conservation Association (SCA) in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS), created the Centennial Volunteer Ambassador (CVA) program to aid with the government's initiative--Play, Learn, Work, Serve--to get a million volunteers to serve on public lands in four years. Currently, there are over 100 CVAs serving at parks around the nation to help achieve this goal. One of the sites is Canyon de Chelly National Monument (CACH). As a cultural heritage site, CACH is surrounded by low income and under-served families on the Navajo Nation. With the CVA's assistance, CACH will increase NPS outreach to this non-traditional audience on the Navajo Nation where over 95% of the local population is Navajo, a group commonly underrepresented in NPS activities. At Canyon de Chelly, CVA's primary duties are to promote volunteer and conservation programs in the community; engage the public through community activities and outreach events; and advertise volunteer events via the park website, facebook and newspaper. Other duties include assisting park staff with routine visitor center operations such as opening, closing, cleaning, restocking, and assisting staff in the Cultlural and Natural Resources division where duties pertain to resource preservation. Additional opportunities include working with park staff in nearby NPS units at Hubbell Trading Post NHS and Navajo National Monument.

- Responsible for hiring new bicycle technicians and managing their shifts- Trained bike technicians in basic repair skills, customer service, and Tiernan Field House policy- Promoted bike theft prevention, bike safety, and bike maintenance to the community- Organized the raffle of semester loan bikes which distributed and loaned approximately 80 repaired bikes to the Scripps College community

- Learned bicycle repair skills (tube replacement/patching, wheel truing, derailleur adjustments, brake adjustments, bottom bracket replacement, etc) - Encouraged sustainability by stripping old bikes of their parts, building new bikes from scratch, and discerning which parts could and could not be reused - Assisted and taught the community how to maintain their bikes through 1-one-1 interactions.- Fixed and maintained approximately 50 donated bikes for semester loan program and 30 bikes for day loan program

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Asian Studies

A majority of my studies about Asia were focused on Japan, with particular interest in their (rocky) international relationships.

Asian Studies/Japanese Studies