Introduction to Japanese Baseball: Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

Public speaking, active listening, supporting ideas and opinions.

With over 25 years of coaching experience at the amateur, collegiate and international levels, I appreciate that statistics are an important part of the sport.  

For the past twelve years, I have operated Last Raps Baseball, a North Vancouver, BC, based business that provides baseball instruction to those who are aged 8 to 18 years old.  

Though I hold formal education with an Honours degree in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English, and a Bachelor of Education degree, I have not formally taught in the classroom.  Baseball has been my life long passion, and I have chosen to do my teaching between the chalk.
 
At the conclusion of our camps and clinics, we give baseball cards to the children who attend our instructional sessions.  I believe that the way children become engaged in the sport is to play, watch and listen.  Providing baseball cards to the children help them learn about the sport on many different levels.  

There is no homework for this class.

There is no formal assessment, however learners will be asked to verbally recall information presented from the class to keep them engaged in the lesson.

50 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.

There is no source requirement.  However, if students have any Rakuten Golden Eagles material that they would like to share and discuss, it would be appropriate to do so at this time.