TIP Submission

At a minimum, each TIP should include the following. Please number the sections in your TIP as they are listed below. TIPs will NOT be approved if any section is missing.

• A 500-to-1000-word reflective essay on how the course you took has changed your knowledge of and thinking about East Asia.
• A 250-to-500 word explanation of what opportunities you will have to teach about East Asia in the next school year, including grade level, subject area, and hours of instruction. You should also describe other ways in which you will share the information from the course with the community beyond your own classroom (your colleagues, school, neighborhood, etc.).
• A 250-to-500 word description of specific ways in which you will apply the course content to your teaching.
• The local, state, or national standards addressed in each lesson plan. You do not need to address all three (local, state, and national standards). Choose whichever is most useful or applicable to your situation.
• Three lesson plans—based on the course you took.
  • A single “lesson plan” may be an entire, multi-day unit or a single activity that requires only one class period. Please specify the number of days and amount of class time required for each lesson plan. Please also make sure that your lesson plans are detailed enough so that another teacher could use them with only limited preparatory research.
• A list of resources (books, periodicals, videos, Websites, etc.) you plan to use for each lesson plan.

• All TIPs should be submitted electronically. 
• TIPs should be submitted as a PDF.
• TIPs should be fully documented. If you make a reference to a partiuclar work, it should be included in a reference list. Do not send copies of entire stories or chapters from books; cite them and include them in the reference list.
• All TIPs should be forwarded to the East Asian Studies Center and will become property of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA). As such, they may be published, bound, or shared with others. Some TIPs may be selected for publication on the EASC or national NCTA website. 
• Be sure to include your name and the course you participated in on your TIP.