Summer 2024
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.
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.
Workshop starts: July 15, 2024 (asynchronous); July 16, 2024 (In person)
Workshop Ends: July 19, 2024
Registration Deadline: March 29, 2024
Lodging and some meals provided.
This workshop covers pre-modern and modern East Asian —defined here as China and Taiwan, North and South Korea, and Japan— literature inclusing poetry and novels. Each day an expert worlf literature teacher guides participants in developing lesson plans ot bring East Asian literature into the classroom. Literature opens a window on the inner life of a culture, offering readers a glimpse of how another culture understands and represents itself. Studying East Asian literature helps students to develop an appreciation of other cultures, allowing them to participate more fully as informed members of the world community. More information on the workshop can be found here.
Registration Closed
Spring 2024
Course Starts: January 13, 2024
Course Ends: February 24, 2024
Registration Deadline: December 15, 2023
Taught by Cecilia Boyce, this six-week NCTA course will equip teachers with the knowledge and resources needed to incorporate the short fiction of Haruki Murakami into their literature classrooms. Through the exploration of Murakami’s short stories teachers will gain more insight into the cultural and historic subtext of Murakami’s stories while engaging in dialogue with other teachers.
This course offers teachers 12 professional development hours.
Registration Closed
