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NCTA at the Iowa Council for the Social Studies (October 2011)
NCTA is sponsoring a strand of sessions on East Asia as part of NCTA co-sponsorship of the Iowa Council for the Social Studies Fall Conference, October 17-18, 2011 in Des Moines.  Teachers registering for the conference may attend up to four sessions focusing on resources and strategies for teaching about East Asia presented by NCTA teacher alumni from Iowa.  For specifics of NCTA-sponsored sessions on East Asia at the ICSS Conference, visit the Iowa conference registration form, workshops, or program overview. 

NCTA STUDY TOURS AND SUMMER INSTITUTES

The NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Pittsburgh is organizing a residential summer program in Hangzhou, China for its own teachers as well as those from four other NCTA national coordinating sites: Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Indiana University, University of Colorado and University of Washington.

A selection committee will choose twenty (20) teachers for the program; there are eight (8) spots for alumni of NCTA seminars in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware and Maryland. There are three (3) spots for each of the other NCTA coordinating sites mentioned above.  Dr. Kristin Stapleton, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo, will serve as the program’s director in China. The residential program will be administered by the National Coordinating Site at the University of Pittsburgh.

This program includes the following components in addition to the time spent in China: online orientation and follow-up, as ell as written classroom implementation plans.  Application Deadline: January 9, 2012  Click here for more infomation and to download the application. 

NCTA will offer a 4-week study tour to Japan in summer 2012, funded by the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, with additional support from NCTA.  Coordinated by the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, the study tour is open by application to NCTA alumni nationwide.  This study tour was postponed from Summer 2011 and new applications are now being accepted. For more information, contact Anne Prescott, aprescott@fivecolleges.edu.

NCTA is offering two enrichment summer institutes for NCTA alumni in 2012.  A residential institute on East Asian literature will be conducted by the NCTA National Coordinating Site at Indiana University for eligible alumni.  Information will be available in early winter 2012 at the Indiana University NCTA National Coordinating Site's NCTA Teaching East Asian Literature in High School Workshop Web page. A residential one-week institute on a specific topic in East Asian Studies will be hosted by the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Colorado.  The topic and application process will be announced in January 2012.  Contact Lynn Parisi, parisi@colorado.edu, for more information or visit the University of Colorado NCTA National Coordinating Site NCTA Web page and click on Summer Institutes after January 1, 2012.

ONLINE DISCUSSIONS

To participate in discussions with teachers in Iowa, please visit the Iowa State Discussion Group section of the Asia in the Curriculum BULLETIN. Registration is required for posting messages to the Forum, though not to read messages already posted.

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