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	Elementary Educators Prepare for Japan Study Tour
	The participants of the Teaching East Asia 2008 Japan Study Tour for Elementary Educators met May 16 and 17, 2008, to complete their orientation before departing for Japan in June. They were joined by Michelle Guilfoil of the U.S. Department of Education. The project is being funded through the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program as well as by the Freeman Foundation.	Study Tour participants enjoy a dinner at Sushi Zanmai.
	Project Scholar David Henry joined the group from Alaska to provide lectures on Japanese linguistics, history, and Japanese children's literature and animation. Participants discussed the tour's featured literature and began to sketch curricular ideas for the lessons they will develop using the new contexts provided by the study tour.
	Study Tour participants enjoy a dinner at Sushi Zanmai.	Teaching East Asia was pleased to welcome Deputy Consul General at Denver, Fumiyoshi Kashima; master teacher Pat Ziemkowski; and former coordinator of international relations in Yamagata, Jessica Oppenheim, to the event to provide additional information to the teachers. Alumni of the 2007 study tour hosted an animated film night showcasing the work of Hayao Miyazaki. The orientation ended with a dinner at a local Japanese restaurant.
	Engage Asia to bring Chinese, Japanese, and Hindi to Local Schools
	In addition to the Program for Teaching East Asia’s current It’s Elementary service learning course, which is in its ninth year, TEA has received funding from the University of Colorado’s Center for Service Learning to start a new service course for undergraduate students. Offered through the Center for Asian Studies, the course will be called Engage Asia. Under the guidance of TEA staff, experienced CU students, and CU faculty, international students, and students studying Chinese, Japanese, and Hindi will receive credit for planning and presenting lessons on Asian languages and cultures in local K-12 classrooms. CU students engaged in the service learning project will develop real-world skills while helping local teachers to provide engaging and informed curriculum to their students. Presentations will be available for spring 2009. Stay tuned for more information on requesting a presenter for your classroom!
	Asian History Awardees Announced at Colorado History Day
	On May 3, Colorado History Day was celebrated on the University of Colorado at Denver campus with competitions at both the junior and senior levels. The categories featured included exhibits, performances, documentaries, web sites, and papers exemplifying this year's theme, Conflict and Compromise in History. TEA sponsors a special category prize in Asian History that was judged by TEA Outreach Coordinator, Jenny Spolnik, and CU Graduate Student in Communications, Liang Zheng. This year's senior winner was Huan Manton from Denver School of the Arts with a web site entitled Chinese Exclusion: Conflict and Compromise. The junior category awardees were Brandon Barker and Gia Montoya from Connect Charter School for their group documentary Tiananmen Square Massacre: Conflict and Compromise in History. The winning students received books on Asian history.
	NCTA Seminars
	Join a National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) 30-hour professional development seminar on East Asia in your area in 2008-09, offered through the NCTA national coordinating site at Teaching East Asia, University of Colorado. Although the 2008-09 seminar locations aren’t yet finalized, potential seminar sites have been identified. Contact Lynn Parisi for more information. Fall 2008 Boulder, CO Omaha, NE Arlington, VA Norfolk, VA Winter/Spring 2009 North Denver, CO South Denver, CO Laramie, WY Phoenix, AZ Charlottesville, VA Beloit, WI Fullerton, CA Central California
	Other National Opportunities
	New Opportunities July 15 (deadline). August 4-7: Hyogo Business and Cultural Center (HBCC) Summer Institute for Teachers of Japanese. 8:00 am - 3:00 pm at Roosevelt High School (1410 NE 66th Street, Seattle, WA 98115). The institute theme is Incorporating Culture into Teaching Japanese Language. Registration fee: $80. Available clock hours: 24. Institute instructors are Hiroko Kataoka (California State University, Long Beach) and Yasuhiko Tohsaku (UC San Diego). To register for the summer institute, please send your completed application form and a check for the registration fee to: Summer Institute 2008, Hyogo Business & Cultural Center, 2001 6th Avenue, Suite 2610, Seattle, WA 98121. For more information about the HBCC Summer Institute, please contact John Charlton. Spaces for the Summer Institute are limited. Reminders of Formerly Mentioned Opportunities June 2 (deadline). June 16 and July 14-18: IOWA ONLY: Summer 2008 NCTA East Asian Studies Seminar. The residential seminar will meet at TEA's NCTA partner site University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. This 30-hour seminar offers secondary teachers in Iowa the opportunity to engage in study, analysis, and discussion of new scholarship related to Chinese and Japanese history, geography, and culture. The seminar will emphasize a humanities approach, incorporating primary source "texts" from history, literature, art, and government. Seminar content will be tied to state and national standards in history and geography. Contact ncta@uiowa.edu to register. June 5 (deadline). July 3-6: Whose America? Who's American? Diversity, Civil Liberties, and Social Justice. Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. Part of the three-year project Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. The conference is a collaboration between educators, communities, students, and the Japanese-American National Museum to create curricula about the Japanese-American World War II experience for every classroom in these five states. It will feature a fascinating array of guest speakers who will examine the connections between the Japanese-American experience and the historical and contemporary issues surrounding democracy and civil rights. June 15-July 2: Chinese Pedagogy Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The East Asian Studies Center at IU is still accepting applications for their residential program that offers 4-5 hours of graduate-level credit (at no cost to participants) to 24 prospective and current middle and high school Chinese teachers recruited nationally. Sixteen teachers will be placed in the beginning track, which will focus on lesson planning and classroom instruction, and eight teachers in the advanced track, which will highlight curriculum design, material development, and assessment. In addition to tuition, instructional materials, lodging, and meals will be fully covered. June 23-26: AP Summer Institutes at the University of Denver’s Center for Teaching International Relations (CTIR). AP Economics, AP European History, and AP World History. Each session of the Institute will be held on the University of Denver campus and will cover different aspects of each AP course as well as its respective exam. Participants will actively engage in discussions and sample lessons. Institute leaders may also provide Internet resources and ways to effectively utilize computer lab time in AP courses. Both new and experienced AP teachers are encouraged to attend. Experienced AP teachers are encouraged to share materials from their classrooms. Institute cost: $650.
	Resources
The Program for Teaching East Asia University of Colorado at Boulder 595 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 (303) 735-5122	Five Sites for Lesson Plans and Teaching Materials on China from China Beat. The China Beat blog offers a range of opinion pieces on news, history, and culture. The contributors are Los Angeles area scholars and graduate students. If you teach about China, or are interested in learning more about how Chinese history is being taught in the United States, take a look at these innovative websites and programs. New AEMS DVDs Available. Asia Educational Media Service (AEMS) announced a new DVD, entitled On Another Playground: Japanese Popular Culture in America. It is a set of three engaging lectures on Hello Kitty (Christine Yano), sushi (Theodore Bestor), and baseball (William Kelly). Professionally filmed and edited, the DVD is organized into chapters by topic, to make it easier to use in teaching. The price is $60. In addition, AEMS has now made the DVD Under Another Sun: Japanese in Singapore available for online purchase. AEMS is offering the DVD at a special summer sale price of $60. Newsweek Teaching Materials. Newsweek is donating teaching materials to teachers and schools on a limited basis. Teachers may request categories of resources, e.g. social studies, English, U.S. government, reading/writing. Specific titles cannot be guaranteed. Each box will have approximately 75 guides or maps/guides and will include multiple copies of several different titles. There is a $10 charge to cover shipping and handling per box. Payment can be made by credit card when phoning in the request to 800-526-2595. Please include an address for late June or early July delivery. Requests will be accepted until June 9, or until items run out.
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