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NCTA SEMINARS

SIGN UP FOR 2011-12 SEMINARS IN NEW YORK!

• Upstate New York Educators:
Please see the SCHENECTADY NEW YORK PAGE or the ROCHESTER NEW YORK PAGE or the Five College Center for East Asian Studies NCTA National Coordinating Site's NCTA SEMINARS WEBSITE for information. 

For seminars in Schenectady contact Catherine Snyder.  For seminars in Rochester contact Terry Noonan. 

• New York City Metro-area Educators:
Please see the Columbia University NCTA National Coordinating Site's Seminar Webpage for information, or contact Karen Kane at kak13@columbia.edu or (212) 854-9007.

NCTA STUDY TOURS AND SUMMER INSTITUTES

The NCTA National Coordinating Site at Columbia University and Partner Sites will offer Summer 2012 Field Study Opportunities in East Asia for NCTA Alumni in the states of:  

Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York (lower), North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South  Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas

Itineraries & Dates:
•    China - Korea:  June 8 -- June 24, 2012                                         
China: Beijing, Xian, Suzhou, Shanghai; Korea: Seoul, DMZ Kyongju, Haeinsa Temple, stay
•    China (the Silk Road):  July 1-- July 17,2012                                    
Beijing, Xi'an, Dunhuang, Turpan, Urumqi, Kashgar, Hotan, Shanghai

Only as an optional extension of the China-Silk Road Trip:

•    Japan:  July 18-22
Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo

                                                                
  (Dates of the trips are tentative until final posting.)

Application Deadline will be  February 6, 2012
** Applicants for the summer 2012 trips must have completed their NCTA course requirements by February 1, 2012 in order to be considered for a trip. Participants must complete either a thirty-hour, face-to-face or on-line seminar in their local area or three of the on-line mini-courses offered to teachers in the states listed above. (Teachers who have not completed their requirement by February 1, 2012 will be eligible for study tours offered in summer 2013.) Download application form here.

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.

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 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 New York, please visit the New York 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 New York State Education Department:

LINKS TO RELATED PROGRAMS


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