Program for Teaching East Asia

Colorado School Visits

The Center for Asian Studies and Program for Teaching East Asia provide outreach to K-12 schools and educators in the Denver-Boulder Metro Area.  CAS and TEA undergraduate interns and graduate assistants with backgrounds in Asian studies are available to make classroom presentations on Asian languages, cultures, and societies in order to help teachers inspire students to learn more about this fascinating and diverse region of the world.

OUTREACH TO SECONDARY CLASSROOMS
IN THE DENVER-BOULDER METRO AREA

“Thanks so much for presenting at Fairview. You had one of the most popular presentations of the whole day!” -- Student Coordinator of the Fairview High School International Day

The Center for Asian Studies and Program for Teaching East Asia CU-Boulder offer a secondary classroom visit program. Presentations by CU-Boulder students are available on China, Japan, India, and Korea.

Presentations for the 2009-2010 school year cover a variety of topics from Japanese tea ceremony to Chinese arts and culture, to Korean holidays. These presentations are equally suitable for History, World Civilizations, and Literature classes.

Japan	“Chado: The Way of Tea ”	Contact: Raechel Dumas, raechel.dumas@colorado.edu
	“Perspectives on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Japanese Experience Through Art”	Contact: Raechel Dumas, raechel.dumas@colorado.edu
China	“Chinese Invention of Paper and Paper cutting ”	Contact: Lydia Halvorson, lydia.halvorson@colorado.edu
	“Chinese Food and Culture ”	Contact: Lydia Halvorson, lydia.halvorson@colorado.edu
	“History of Chinese Calligraphy”	Contact: Lydia Halvorson, lydia.halvorson@colorado.edu
	“Tai Chi: China’s Other Martial Art”	Contact: Steve Cutillo, stephen.cutillo@colorado.edu
Korea	“Traditional Holidays in Korea ”	Contact: Ashley Breen, ashley.breen@colorado.edu

The outreach program presentations are free of charge due through generous grants awarded by the Freeman Foundation and by CU’s Service Learning Program. We invite you to schedule one or all of our student speakers to visit your classes.

These classroom presentation are designed for a 50-minute class period, but can be modified to meet teacher's needs. Our multimedia presentations are designed to engage all learning styles.

OUTREACH TO ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
IN THE BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) offers Boulder Valley elementary teachers the opportunity to enrich their classroom units on China and Taiwan, Japan, and India through TEA's "It's Elementary" service project. Through this program, CU undergraduates studying Asian languages and cultures and international students from China, Japan and Taiwan, train with TEA staff to develop and teach lessons on language and culture in Boulder schools in conjunction with the district's elementary grades curriculum on Asia. Each intern or a pair is assigned to a Boulder Valley classroom during the class unit on Asia and teaches multiple lessons to the class, in cooperation with the classroom teacher. Lessons may focus on simple language, writing, holidays and festivals, school life, the Chinese New Year, and other aspects of culture.

We are currently taking reservations from Boulder Valley elementary teachers for Winter-Spring 2010 TEA student interns. If you would like to take part in this program between February 1 and April 30, 2010, please fill out the reservation form and return it to us via mail (TEA, UCB 595, Boulder, CO 80309-0595) or email (hyun.kang@colorado.edu) by December 7, 2009.