Summer 2025 NCTA Workshops
Date: June 28, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm CDT
Location: Merlo Branch, Chicago Public Library. 644 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657.
This workshop is open to all middle and high school educators in the state of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. Participation is limited to 25 educators.
Join Indiana University faculty member, Dr. Nick Vogt, on June 28, 2025 for a teacher professional development workshop focused on violence in East Asian literature. This workshop is co-sponsored by the Indiana University the University of Pittsburgh national coordinating sites for NCTA.
Violence is unfortunately part of the shared experience of all of humanity. Despite its commonality, though, different cultures separated in space and time have hit upon different ways of dealing with violence in art, literature, and public discourse. This workshop will introduce three case studies dealing with the depiction of violence in words: from China, the romanticized story of the Three Kingdoms period of history; from Japan, the ideal of the samurai warrior and its manifestations in the tale of the Ako vendetta; and from Korea, the lurid story of Crown Prince Sado as recorded in the Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong.
Each of these stories is a part of pre-modern East Asian History, but each is also well known in its country of origin, spawning many depictions in pop culture and mass media. Each therefore makes an effective case study of how to think through the relationship between storytelling and history. The workshop will provide teachers with supporting materials on these stories and will explore how to introduce middle- and high-school students to these materials, and others like them, in a responsible, culturally sensitive, and engaging way.
Participants will receive a certificate of completion for 6 professional development hours as well as a copy of Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea, Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms, and Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language.
Dates: Friday, June 27 9:30am - 5:30pm; Saturday, June 28 9:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Glenview Public Library, 1930 Glenview Rd, Glenview, IL 60025 and Online (Summit will be held in a hybrid format)
This workshop is open to all P-12 educators in the U.S.
Hosted by the Sejong Cultural Society. This professional development workshop is FREE for P-12 educators and offers complimentary reference books, a stipend and book funds. Educators will be given a certificate for ten professional development hours.
Registration coming soon.
Date: July 8, 2025
Time: 10:30am - 4:30pm
Location: West Perry Library, 6650 South Harding St. Indianapolis, 46217
This workshop is open to all P-12 educators in the state of Indiana.
The Chin Languages Research Project (CLRP) is an IU collaboration with members of Indiana's Chin (Burmese) refugee community. Hailing mainly from Chin State in western Burma, the Indianapolis Chin community (appr. 32,000 people) possesses profound linguistic diversity and Chin students and languages are well represented in Indiana's schools. The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia is offering an opportunity for P-12 educators to learn about language diversity and endangerment, diaspora communities, and how these issues affect Indiana’s Chin community.
This professional development workshop is FREE for P-12 educators and offers a certificate for six professional development hours. Lunch will be provided.
Past NCTA Workshops
Workshop takes place: June 28, 2024 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm CT
Location: IU Northwest, Gary IN
Registration Deadline: June 1, 2024
Join IU Northwest faculty member Diana Chen Lin on June 28, 2024, for a K-12 educator professional development workshop focused on current issues in East Asia likely to be of interest to students. The workshop will provide lectures and discussion of the complex history of China’s environmental changes up to the 21st century. It will explore how China’s post-1978 modernization turned China into the largest carbon dioxide emitter. The workshop will also tackle the significant policy shifts in China that seek to transform challenges into opportunities by making China a leading country in green technology and green energy cars. We will work on the criteria and methods to discuss these issues in the classroom. All will receive a copy of Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro’s China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (Polity Press, 2020). This workshop offers teachers 4 professional development hours.
All K-12 educators are welcome; teachers of AP Human Geography, World Cultures, Modern World History, Art, Global Studies, English, Media Literacy, and World Languages will find the topics particularly useful. Participants will be exposed to workshop topics through lectures, discussions, and activities that can be brought into the classroom and used to enhance global contextualization within Illinois and Indiana state academic standards.
All participants are eligible to receive mileage reimbursements for round-trip travel totaling more than 25 miles This is a Weekend Workshop Series (June 21-22, 2024) and K-12 educators may register for one or both workshops plus an optional dinner on Friday June 21; hotel accommodations will be provided for participants registered for both workshops. This series is a collaborative initiative between the Indiana University and University of Pittsburgh NCTA coordinating sites.
Registration Closed
Workshop takes place: June 29, 2024 from 8:00 am - 1:00 pm CT
Location: IU Northwest, Gary IN
Registration Deadline: June 1, 2024
Join IU Northwest faculty member Diana Chen Lin on June 29, 2024, for a K-12 educator professional development workshop focused on contemporary pop culture in East Asia likely to be of interest to students. This workshop explores the social and cultural implications of East Asian pop culture both regionally and globally. It offers some explanations for the recent surge in popularity of East Asian popular culture, specifically focusing on Japanese pop music, anime, and manga, South Korean and Chinese pop music, along with related elements like video games, toys, and books. The discussion will contextualize East Asian pop culture in relation to American influence and mutual influences between East Asian countries. The workshop combines readings, songs and videos in a discussion of methodologies to incorporate the content into the classroom. All participants will receive a copy of William Tsutsui’s Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization (Key Issues series). This workshop offers teachers 4 professional development hours.
All K-12 educators are welcome; teachers of AP Human Geography, World Cultures, Modern World History, Art, Global Studies, English, Media Literacy, and World Languages will find the topics particularly useful. Participants will be exposed to workshop topics through lectures, discussions, and activities that can be brought into the classroom and used to enhance global contextualization within Illinois and Indiana state academic standards.
All participants are eligible to receive mileage reimbursements for round-trip travel totaling more than 25 miles. Lunch is provided during the workshop. This is a Weekend Workshop Series (June 21-22, 2024) and K-12 educators may register for one or both workshops plus an optional dinner on Friday June 21; hotel accommodations will be provided for participants registered for both workshops. This series is a collaborative initiative between the Indiana University and University of Pittsburgh NCTA coordinating sites.
Registration Closed
Date: March 8, 2025
Registration Closes: March 01, 2025
Location: Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana
During this one day workshop educators will be guided through different aspects of Taiwanese cinema by Dr. Yu, an expert in film and cinema studies. Following his talk educators will discuss classroom implementation and how foreign cinema can be used to enrich the classroom experience for students.
Dr. Chang-Min Yu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University. He received his PhD in Film Studies from the University of Iowa and is currently at Harvard University finishing a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Modernism Disclaimed: Taiwanese Film Historiography Before City of Sadness.
Participants earned a certificate for 6 professional development hours. EASC offered travel assistance to educators driving more than 50 miles.