Reid-ing, Writing. No arithmetic.
Writing instructor Reid Sunahara's energy and "local boy" personality makes him a role model for KCC students
Catherine Toth
Issue date: 9/14/09 Section: News
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A writing instructor and tutor, Sunahara is not quite a fresh face at KCC; in fact, he has worked here for more than five years. Sunahara first started working on campus about 10 years ago as a student tutor while he was a student here himself. This is his first year working at KCC full time.
"I worked here for a long time. I'm actually working with people like Lisa Kanae and Gail Harada now; they are just some people who I worked with when I was still a student," said Sunahara. "My college job became my real job."
Colleague and fellow English professor Gail Harada thinks that Sunahara is highly proficient in technology.
"Reid is very good with technology. He uses it well and utilizes it to help his students," Harada said.
Sunahara is one of a few instructors who have begun to give audio feedback to students.
"I think audio and video feedback bridges personal contact with the instructor and the student; I'll hand a student back his or her paper with corrections and then the audio will explain why I wrote those corrections," he said.
Sunahara said that he came back to teach at KCC, after previously working at WCC, LCC and Remington because he related to the students.
"I got to know the students and I connected with them more than (students at) other campuses," he said. "English was my field of study and I feel that I am better at talking to people. I don't consider myself as a teacher."
Sunahara is from Mililani and graduated from Mililani High School as part of the class of 1993. He described his academic life mostly on a positive note.
"I studied hard in school - except in high school. I think my high school experiences matches with some students' experiences today," he said.
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