Wednesday, October 21. 7:30 – 9:15 a.m. Denver World Affairs Council Speaker – David Semple. The Institute of International Education (IIE) is hosting David Semple, who will speak on “Macro View of the World: World Geopolitical and Economic Trends.”  This event will take place at the Denver Athletic Club.  For registration and more information, visit http://rockymountainiie.org/news_body.asp?id=173.

Friday, October 23, 2009. 7:00 p.m. Screening of Inside Red China. As part of Global Diversity Awareness Month, the Boulder Public Library will offer a screening of  Inside Red China, a 1957 film by Robert Cohen.  The filmmaker will answer questions after the screening.  For more information, click here.

Deadline. Friday, November 6, 2009. One China, Many Chinas: Minority Peoples, Issues, and Challenges in China Today. Join TEA on Saturday, November 14, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to learn about issues and policies that challenge the Chinese government at home and in a global context. Michael Brose, University of Wyoming, will present an overview of minority issues in the PRC, from the development of policy in the 1950s to contemporary issues that include globalization, labor, and human rights. Tim Oakes, University of Colorado, will offer a case study of the costs and benefits of ethnic minority tourism in Guizhou. TEA staff and teacher consultants will demonstrate and distribute curriculum for bringing the study of China’s minorities into middle and high school instruction.

Deadline. Friday, November 13, 2009. Noon.  WorldQuest.  Hosted by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Center for Teaching International Relations (CTIR), the second annual WorldQuest will take place at the University of Denver on Thursday, November 19, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.  Teams of four to six students will participate. The winners will go to Washington, DC, in May for the national competition. For more information, visit http://www.du.edu/ctir/WorldQuest.htm.

Presenters on Japan, China, Korea, and India Are Ready to Come to Your Classroom. The Center for Asian Studies at CU-Boulder, in cooperation with TEA, is again offering its educational outreach program to middle and high schools. Last year we extended our program beyond China and Japan to include India, and this year we’ve added yet another country: Korea.  Our student presenters are able to speak on the following topics free of charge depending on their availability and location of school. 
Japan
“Chado: The Way of Tea”
“Perspectives on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Japanese Experience Through Art”
Contact: Raechel Dumas

China
“Chinese Invention of Paper and Paper Cutting”
“History of Chinese Calligraphy”
“Chinese Food and Culture”
Contact: Lydia Halvorson

 “Tai Chi: China’s Other Martial Art” (tentative title)
Contact: Steve Cutillo

Korea
“Traditional Holidays in Korea”
Contact: Ashley Breen

Previously Mentioned Colorado Opportunities

Saturday, October 24, 2009. 8:00 a.m.– 4:30 p.m. Genghis Khan in the 21st-Century Classroom. In this workshop, sponsored by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, teachers will learn from specialists and spend time – without crowds – in the temporary exhibition, Genghis Khan (October 16, 2009-February 7, 2010). Designed for middle and high school teachers, the workshop will include sessions by the Program for Teaching East Asia, the Colorado Council for Economic Education, the Nature Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo. A total of 0.5 graduate credits are available through the Colorado School of Mines. Participation is $60 noncredit and $90 credit. For more information and registration, contact the DMNS at 303-322-7009 or 1-800-925-2250.

Saturday, October 24, 2009. 7:00 p.m. Kabuki: Backstage to Hanamichi. The Consulate-General of Japan in Denver and the Japan-America Society of Colorado have organized a behind-the-scenes look at the color, magic, and drama of kabuki. Produced by the Japan Foundation Performing Arts Exchange Program, this kabuki performance will feature celebrated actors Kyozo Nakamura and Matanosuke Nakamura. The event will take place at the Newman Center, University of Denver. Tickets are $25 at the Newman Center box office and through Ticketmaster. For more information, see attached flier.

Thursday, October 29, 2009. 6:30 p.m. Guizhou Chinese Modern and Contemporary Dance Ensemble. Hosted by the Community College of Denver Confucius Institute, a dance troupe from Guizhou, which performed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, will perform at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are priced at $17.50 for students, $25.00 for higher education employees, $37.50 for general public, and $75.00 for the front row. For more information, contact Aimee McCalister at 303-556-3698 or Aimee.McCalister@ccd.edu.

Friday, November 6, 2009. 6:00 p.m. Chinese Culture Exploratorium. The Community College of Denver Confucius Institute will be opening a Chinese Culture Exploratorium, in the Atrium of the St. Francis Center at the Auraria Campus. It will be a multimedia, art-filled experience where students can take photos of themselves in Chinese costumes and print out their Chinese zodiac sign. This institute in Denver is the first Confucius Institute in the world to open a mini-museum of such magnitude modeled after the Exploratorium in the Beijing HanBan office.  For more information, contact Aimee McCalister at 303-556-3698 or Aimee.McCalister@ccd.edu.

Deadline. Friday, October 30, 2009. Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program.  This is a two-week fully funded professional exchange for full-time secondary social studies, English, math, and science teachers funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State and administered by IREX. For more information, visit http://www.irex.org/programs/tea/tea_us.asp.

Deadline. Friday, December 4, 2009. National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y). The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, offers merit-based scholarships to study overseas for summer, semester, and academic year programs in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian (Farsi), Russian, and Turkish. Interested students should visit http://www.nsliforyouth.org, where they can complete the online application.

American Students Needed as Pen Pals for Chinese College Students.
As part of their Oral English Class, students at Anhui University in Hefei China are being matched with American students to be pen pals. Students will communicate through a web site forum to learn about each others cultures through this experience. The Chinese students are freshman, sophomore, and junior English majors. Students will be required to write correspondence weekly throughout the semester. Jen Spolnik, former outreach coordinator at TEA, is coordinating this effort while she teaches English in China. If interested, please send your students’ names (first and last names) to hifromjenny@yahoo.com. High school and college students will be given first priority. The first teachers to reply with their lists will be given priority until the 400 slots are filled.

Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) is accepting grant applications. CGP will fund education grant projects up to $5,000 that promote greater awareness and understanding of Japan in the United States.  Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations, and the project must commence before March 31, 2010. For more information, click here or contact Emily Chung at emily_chung@cgp.org.

Previously Mentioned National Opportunities

Deadline. Sunday, November 1, 2009. Franklin R. Buchanan Prize Call For Submissions. The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) invites submissions for the Franklin R. Buchanan Prize. The prize is awarded annually to recognize an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia designed for any educational level, elementary through university. Submissions must have been published after January 1, 2008, and include extensive teaching strategies in order to be considered. Various formats are acceptable, including print, CD, video, and online formats. The 2010 Buchanan prize will be awarded to the author of the work at the AAS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, March 25–28, 2010. The prize includes a $1,000 monetary award and a one-year membership to AAS. For more information, please contact Krista Forsgren at 404-556-9108 or kforsgren@gmail.com.

Deadline. Sunday, February 28, 2010. Keizai Koho Center Teacher Fellowships. The Keizai Koho Center (Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs), in cooperation with the National Association of Japan-America Societies (NAJAS), will sponsor a ten-day fellowship to Japan in Summer 2010 for educators in the United States and Canada. For more information, contact the Keizai Koho Fellowship Program at kkcfellowship@us-japan.org.

Join a National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) 30-hour professional development seminar on East Asia in your area in 2009-10, offered through the NCTA national coordinating site at the Program for Teaching East Asia, University of Colorado. Winter/Spring 2010 sites are tentative, and registration for some of the sites is now available on the TEA website.

Fall 2009
Omaha, NE (registration closed)

Winter/Spring 2010
California: Fullerton
Colorado: Boulder
Colorado: St. Vrain/Thompson Valley
Colorado: Western Slope
Missouri: St. Louis
Utah: Ogden
Wisconsin: Beloit
Wisconsin: Milwaukee

Summer 2010
Iowa: Statewide

Recap of TEA Workshops

The Korean Peninsula's Golden Age and Nuclear Age. On September 26, 2009, approximately 35 teachers attended this one-day program featuring Korean studies specialist Mark Peterson. Curriculum demonstrations engaged teachers in analyzing artifacts of Silla Korea and taking part in a simulation of the six-party talks.

Professor Mark Peterson helping with the six-party talks simulation.

Puppets in Asia. On October 3, 2009, TEA co-sponsored Puppets in Asia with the South, Southeast, and West Asia Outreach Program (SSEWA). Approximately 20 teachers and a few high school and college students participated in a hands-on presentation of Southeast Asian puppets in the morning. The afternoon featured an explanation of bunraku followed by a mini-performance by members of the Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe from the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Hiroshima Survivor Tours Colorado Schools

Since 2005, TEA and NCTA study tour participants to Japan have had the opportunity to learn first-hand about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima through meetings with Mr. Keijiro Matsushima, an A-bomb survivor. This October, study tour alumni had the opportunity to reconnect with Mr. Matsushima, this time in Colorado. Mr. Matsushima was in Colorado for a one-week speaking engagement, during which he presented his eyewitness account to over 2200 people at 17 different venues, including several K-12
schools. Mr. Matsushima's visit included a talk at Centaurus High School in Lafayette, where he was hosted by TEA-NCTA study tour alumna Johanna Lohr Wintergerst. Approximately half of the Centaurus student body welcomed Mr. Matsushima and heard his moving story of survival in the aftermath of the bombings that ended World War II. Following the presentation, Mr. Matsushima was honored at a dinner with TEA and NCTA study tour alumni and staff. Mr. Matsushima's visit to Colorado was sponsored by Colorado Springs teacher Mark Schaefer, himself an alumnus of the Fulbright Memorial Fund program. For a video clip and article of Mr. Matsushima's speech at Centaurus High School, click here.

Mr. Matsushima outside Centaurus High School in Lafayette, CO

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New SPICE unit, Divided Memories. This unit examines prevalent history textbooks from five Pacific Rim societies – China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States – and compares their coverage of certain sensitive historical episodes of the twentieth century. Divided Memories encourages students to confront more fundamental issues – such as the possible bias of their own historical knowledge – and to become more critical consumers of information.

Primary Source Online Seminar on China. Primary Source, a non-profit professional development organization, announces an online professional development course on ancient China. The Enduring Legacy of Ancient China will be offered three times during the 2009-10 school year and is open to K-12 educators nationwide. The course promises to offer “rich content, new teaching ideas, and an introduction to a number of online classroom tools for global education.” Teachers in the course will also have direct access to scholars. The course offers graduate credit. Information is available at http://www.primarysource.org/asia. Primary Source has created an online “tour” of the course if you’d like to take a closer look at http://www.primarysource.org/first-online-course-launches-october-2009.

North Korea with Nuclear Weapons. The Choices Program has developed a new Current Issues Lesson to help students better understand the domestic and international issues around North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The download is available for $10. For more information, visit http://choices.edu/resources/detail.php?id=195.

Asia for Educators Website Now Features Primary Source Collection. The Asia for Educators mega-site at Columbia University has been revised with new features and an online collection of primary sources and discussion guides appropriate for secondary classrooms. The website features revised lessons on Song China and the Qing Ming Scroll. Browse the site at http://afe.easia.columbia.edu.

Asia Society’s Redesigned Website. The Asia Society of New York announces its newly designed website with tools and resources for K-12 educators. Visit the site at http://www.asiasociety.org.

Japan Clearinghouse Internet Guides from SPICE. The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) offers occasional internet guides on Japan studies topics of interest to teachers through its Japan Clearinghouse. New Internet Guides available now are: Japan’s Territorial Disputes; Japan and the Environment; Japanese Remembrances of World War II and Pacific War Sources and Lessons. Download these guides for free at http://spice.stanford.edu/docs/147.

Multi-media Resources from SPICE.  SPICE is offering a series of web-based activities and lectures, which were developed to support specific SPICE curricula or were presented at teacher workshops. The website will be updated periodically at http://spice.stanford.edu/docs/spice_multimedia_resources.

American Field Service (AFS) provides intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs, including many in East Asia.   For a list of some exchange programs, high school students can visit  http://www.afsusa.org/usa_en/focus_on/high_school.  Included are year-long programs to China, Hong Kong, and Japan; semester programs to Japan; and summer language study programs to China and Japan.  There are also several scholarships available at http://www.afsusa.org/usa_en/view/6941. 

“Program in a Box.” The Stanley Foundation has provided a “Program in a Box” as part of their “Rising Powers”. It focuses on the rising economies of Brazil, China, and India.  It includes a DVD with an introduction, plus video programs on each of the countries mentioned.  It also includes background reading, lesson plans, event planning guides, and event planning survey. For more information, contact Martha Denney at 970-491-5917/3065 or email her at martha.denney@colostate.edu.

Voicethread about Linda Sue Park's book The Kite Fighters is now available at:
http://voicethread.com/#u46982.b631151.i3350302. This is an interactive online slide-show with recorded narration done by Constance Vidor.  It summarizes the story briefly and gives background information on some of the cultural and historical elements of the book.

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