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NCTA SEMINARS

SIGN UP FOR 2011 and 2012 SEMINARS IN NEBRASKA!

NOW REGISTERING!  NCTA Three Days of East Asia Workshops (September-November 2011).
Nebraska social studies teachers have a unique opportunity to gain resources and curriculum for teaching about China and Japan through three workshops offered by NCTA in Fall 2011.  For details, please see the Nebraska section of  the University of Colorado NCTA National Coordinating Site's NCTA SEMINARS WEBPAGE for application or contact  or Linda Wojtan at lsw.consult@aol.co for more information.

2012 Online Seminar.  Nebraska secondary teachers of social studies, language arts, Chinese, and Japanese may enroll in the regional online NCTA seminar offered by the NCTA national coordinating site at the University of Colorado.  The seminar is tentatively scheduled for Winter-Spring 2012.  Registration and details will be posted as they become available at the Nebraska section of the Universtiry of Colorado NCTA National Coordinating Site's NCTA SEMINARS WEBPAGE, or contact Jon Zeljo for more information. 

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 Nebraska, please visit the Nebraska 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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