NCTA Seminars and Offerings
- Overview
- Benefits & Eligibility
- Seminar Sites & Applications
NCTA Seminars and Offerings for the 2011-12 School Year
NCTA entered its 14th year during the 2011-12 academic year. This year, the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Colorado is sponsoring 30-hour seminars, mini-seminars, and short courses in East Asian history and culture for secondary teachers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Programming will be offered in traditional classroom settings and through online offerings. Click on Seminar Sites and Applications above for details for each state. Seminar applications are posted as they become available.
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 30-hour professional seminar in your area, offered by the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the Program for Teaching East Asia and its local and state coordinators.
For 2012, the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the Program for Teaching East Asia continues to offer innovative formats for NCTA professional development courses, as well as classic NCTA 30-hour seminars, with the generous support of the Freeman Foundation. Click on the individual states to learn planned courses close to you.
Summer 2012
This four-day seminar is open to middle and high school teachers of social studies, history, literature, and art in the ten-state region served by the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Colorado: Arizona, California (Fullerton area), Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Alumni of previous Program for Teaching East Asia summer institutes are also welcome to apply. The seminar will explore how the experiences of wartime incarceration have been understood and recorded by successive generations of Japanese Americans through art and memoir and, in turn, how this record has contributed to the narrative of contemporary American history. For full details, click here for seminar flyer; click here for application packet..
Fullerton area (CA) NCTA (June 2012)
Summer 2012 NCTA “Special Topics” Seminar: The United States and China: A Journey Shared.” June 25-29 and October 4, Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
Offered by the NCTA seminar site at the Fullerton International Resources for Schools and Teachers (FIRST) at California State University-Fullerton, this seminar is open to teachers in Fullerton and the surrounding areas of Southern California. The seminar is sponsored by NCTA with additional support from the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, which will host the class meetings. Teachers will have a rare opportunity to work with leading scholars as well as FIRST curriculum specialists to explore the history and contemporary aspects and challenges of US-China relations. For full details, click on the registration link. For additional information, contact seminar leader Connie DeCapite at cdecapite@fullerton.edu
Summer 2012 NCTA Seminar on East Asia. Saturday, August 4; weekdays, August 6-9; and Saturday, August 11, 2012. University of Richmond campus.
This six-day seminar is open to Virginia secondary teachers of history, geography, world language, and literature. The seminar offers teachers the opportunity to engage in study, analysis, and discussion of topics related to Chinese and Japanese history, geography, and culture. Content will address the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs). For full details, click on the registration link.
A blended seminar featuring face-face classroom sessions and online sessions is planned for Winter-Spring 2012, coordinated by the International Education Consortium in St. Louis. For more information on the Missouri seminar, click here.
