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Missouri
NCTA SEMINARS
SIGN UP FOR 2011-2012 SEMINARS IN MISSOURI!
• Kansas City-area and Western Missouri Educators:
The fall 2011 NCTA seminar will be helpd at the Edwards Campus of the
University of Kansas in Overland Park, KS from September 27th through
DEcember 10th. The seminar is coordinated in this region by the
Kansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia (KCTA). Please contact Nancy Hope at nfhope@ku.edu or visit the KCTA webpage for more information.
• St. Louis-area and Eastern Missouri Educators:
The
Winter-Spring 2012 NCTA seminar will be offered as a blended seminar,
runnig from late January through late April 2012. The blended
format features four Saturday sessions and four online sessions and is
designed to enable teachers fro ma broader geographic area of Missouri
to participate in the program. THe seminar is coordinated in this
region by the International Education Consortium of the Cooperating
School Districts. Details and application forms will be available
in November 2011. Please contact Sheila Onuska or visit the Missouri link of the University of Colorado NCTA National Coordinating Site's NCTA SEMINARS WEBPAGE. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
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 Missouri, please visit the Missouri 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.
STATE STANDARDS & CURRICULUM GUIDELINES
From the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education:
LINKS TO RELATED PROGRAMS
- Travel/Study Programs
- Seminars, Institutes, and Professional Development
- Educational Exchange Opportunities (For teachers, students, and schools)
- Asian Studies Resources Online