NCTA Seminars and Offerings
- Overview
- Benefits & Eligibility
- Seminar Sites & Applications
NCTA Seminars and Offerings for the 2012-13 School Year
Through the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, NCTA enters its 15th year during the 2012-13 academic year. This year, the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Colorado is sponsoring 30-hour seminars and special topics courses in East Asian studies for secondary teachers through online delivery during the school year. "Classic" seminars will continue to be offered in our NCTA region in summer 2013.
Benefits of NCTA Participation
Benefits of participation in NCTA seminar and professional development courses include:
- Quality instruction about East Asia from leading experts in the field;
- Free coursebooks and materials;
- Professional stipend upon completion of all seminar requirements;
- Eligibility to apply to NCTA study tours to East Asia and NCTA summer institutes.
Eligibility
Highest priority is given to secondary teachers of world geography, world history, world cultures, art history, religion, economics, and language arts/literature. Other K-12 educators in a position to promote the sustained presence of Asia in the curriculum, such as media specialists and curriculum coordinators, are considered in accordance with the specific course and space availability.
TEA-Sponsored NCTA Seminar Sites and Applications
Join an NCTA professional development seminar in your area, offered by the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the Program for Teaching East Asia and its local and state coordinators.
Summer 2013 NCTA Offerings
Online: Understanding China Today. A Brief History of the People's Republic of China, June 24-July 30, 2013. This 15-hour asynchronous online seminar includes three modules covering the Mao Era, Political Institutions in China, and Contemporary China. Click here for detailed flyer. Click here for online registration.
Summer 2013 Residential Special Topics Course: East is East, West is West? Cultural Encounter and Transmission in Art. June 24-27, 2013, University of Colorado Boulder. (Full)
Fall 2013 NCTA online seminars offered by the University of Colorado national coordinating site will be annouced to listserves and on our website in August 2013. Check back and join our mailing list.
Spring 2013 Online Offerings
This free four-module, asynchronous online course will run from February 16 through late April 2013. Led by art historian Melanie King, the course will develop the skills of reading artwork through conideration of the historical roots of contemporary art, post-World War II visual art, the "superflat" art movement in Japan, and artistic responses to the "Triple Tragedies" of March 2011. Teachers receive a modest stipend and readings. This course has filled. To receive announcements about future courses sign up for our mailing list.
Winter-Spring 2013 Online Offerings
Open to K-14 educators in the DC metro area. Offered by Georgetown University, co-sponsored by the NCTA National Coordinating Sites at the University of Colorado and the University of Pittsburgh. Entitled “Asia Days 2013,” this seminar has been specifically tailored to cover many of the East Asia topics in the MD-DC-VA middle and high school state curricula/standards of learning (SOLs). Seminar flyer and application form. Application deadline is November 30, 2012. Seminar contact: Kat Harrington, SFS Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University, krh45@georgetown.edu or visit the Georgetown website. This semnar is closed
Offered by NCTA and J-OPP. Open to middle and high school teachers of world history nationwide, this 16-hour course provides an introduction to Japan’s premodern era—the Heian period of “peace and calm” (794-1185) and the medieval period of warfare (1185-1600). These two periods saw the development of a unique Japanese culture encompassing social practices, literary genres, aesthetic ideals, and religious beliefs that endure to the present. Seminar flyer and online registration. Registration deadline January 4, 2013. For more information, contact Lynn Parisi, NCTA National Co-director, parisi@colorado.edu. This seminar is closed.
Teachers in the University of Colorado region of NCTA are eligible for all online courses listed above.
Fall 2012 Online Offerings
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