TEA-NCTA 25th Anniversary Curriculum Recognition Project. We are featuring two selections for May 2023 from our NCTA alums. In "Seoul Subway Stop Research," by Jennifer Smith from Mahomet, IL, students explore neighborhoods in Seoul, South Korea using the picture book, I am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun. The integrated instruction for literacy and social studies has students consider characteristics of fiction and nonfiction sources and physical and human characteristics of place.Our second lesson is "Deng Xiaoping's Economic Reforms. Are Choices Worth the Costs?" by Christine Schaefer. This lesson explores critical and strategic choices made by Deng Xiaoping. Deng was a lifelong communist, but understood that China would once again be left behind unless it adopted and adapted some of the Western capitalistic ways. This lesson has students explore a variety of resources to understand and evaluate Deng's new policies and how their immediate and long-term impacts on the PRC.  And check out our previous awardees for January-April.   All are available here.

• April 2023 selection is "Moving Beyond the Mao Years: Analyzing Mao and Post-Mao Policies in China. An Experiential Activity," by TEA-NCTA alum Amanda Westenberg Soliván from Tulsa, OK. This multi-day unit explores the often-overlooked economic reforms and modernizations of Deng Xiaoping, in addition to key Mao-era economic policies. 
• March 2023. "China’s 19th-Century Modernization Efforts: What Issues Could Modernization Resolve?" by NCTA alumna Catherine Mein from Huxley Iowa.
• February 2023.  "Exploring Mao Era Campaigns through Print, Visuals, and Oral Histories," by NCTA alumna Genevieve Novinger from Montrose CO.
• January 2023. "Can Geography Save Your Life if Godzilla Attacks," by veteran NCTA teacher participants Lindsey Perdue and Meagan Major (Northern Virginia)

Contribute a lesson for consideration for the 25th Anniversary Curriculum Project at TEA's NCTA site. Over 25 years and across the country, NCTA teacher alumni have been a force for change in K-12 education. To mark NCTA's 25th year, TEA is celebrating the contributions of our NCTA alumni to improving and enhancing teaching and learning about Asia. Through 2023, we are soliciting exemplary and innovative lessons from TEA NCTA alumni. Alums of our NCTA seminars, summer institutes and study tours are invited to submit an original lesson plan on East Asia.  Throughout 2023, TEA will select a lesson to showcase on theTEA website and in our TEA E-News. Showcased authors will receive a gift card, Freeman Award-winning book, and NCTA 25th Anniversary tote.  Details.

Apply through April 30: TEA-NCTA 2023 Summer Institute

Women in Premodern East Asia: De-marginalizing Their Lives and Voices. July 16 - 21. University of Colorado Boulder campus. Current scholarship challenges traditional narratives of women as one-dimensional actors with little agency in pre-20th century China, Japan, and Korea. Focusing on premodern times through the 19th century, the institute will consider the diversity of women's experiences across time, place, and class, exploring their critical roles in governing and in economic and cultural practices of the family, community, and state. Participants will work with scholars and specialists to examine written and visual sources to re-center women within East Asian history and within their own curricula. This program is FULL and no longer accepting applications.

TEA's Winter-Spring 2023 online courses have filled. Please check back in August for TEA's Fall 2023 NCTA online courses.

NCTA at TEA offers online seminars, book groups, and contemporary issues courses throughout the year. TEA's NCTA courses are open to teachers nationwide, unless noted otherwise. Please see individual course flyers for specifics of each course, including  grade level, discipline, and other priorities for applicants.  All courses offer a certificate of professional development hours and completion award.

Resources from TEA

TEA's NCTA Video Project. TEA's NCTA "Short Takes" is a collection of 40 video lectures designed for use by classroom teachers as professional background or classroom use. Each video focuses on a timely topic or “best practice” presented by an NCTA consulting scholar, seminar leader, teacher alum, or author.

• Take a “quick course” on a current topic you can integrate into your teaching.
• Choose a video to show in class.
• See how NCTA alumni are using new resources successfully.
• Hear what authors have to say about using their new books in the classroom.

Access the complete collection.

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S. through Literature and Writing is a 2020-2021 special project undertaken by TEA with funding from the Universty of Colorado Office of Engagement and Outreach and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA). The project worked with ten secondary teachers to introduce them and their students to the book Wuhan Diaries: Dispatches from a Quarantined City, by the Chinese author Fang Fang. Students then wrote diary and journal entries recording their own experiences processing their year during the COVID pandemic. Their moving personal accounts link their personal experiences to experiences in China and globally.  Visit our project page for more information on the project and selected student writings.

Resources and Strategies for Teaching about Asian America and Responding to Anti-Asian Racism. Educators have a critical role to play in teaching about Asian America and, now more than ever, educating to combat anti-Asian racism and all forms of racism.  Developed for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, May 2021, this TEA-NCTA resource offers educators a selective "toolkit" to address these goals during the May 2021 Awarness month and every day.