Foundational Seminar: Crossroads of EAST ASIA, STEAM, SS, ELA, and SEL

Join us for a virtual journey that will introduce East Asia’s diverse cultures and environment while building and enhancing your tool chest of teaching resources for the classroom. Focusing on the regions that comprise present-day China, Japan, and Korea, participants in this free online seminar will engage with experts and other educators in the field to explore major trends, global issues, and historic foundations that shape East Asian society. Through hands-on activities, films, lectures, and discussion, the cohort will learn about East Asia’s diverse cultures to enhance teaching resources in the classroom. A broad range of innovative teaching materials will be shared, engaging social-emotional learning (SEL), education in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), social studies, ELA, and other cross-curricular approaches to society and culture.

July 10 - 21, 2023 (Monday - Friday)

Lead Instructor: Ann Marie Davis, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
 
Free, online seminar is open to educators, administrators, and pre-service teachers in Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
 
36 hour virtual seminar includes (all ET):
  • Orientation session May 15, 2023 (evening, online)
  • July 10-14 and July 17-21, 2023: daily 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (ET) Online
  • Synchronous and Asynchronous sessions designed to optimize time together
  • Speaker List, including authors of Modern Chinese History and The Minamata Story: an EcoTragedy
  • Benefits: $300 stipend, $200 teaching materials, 36 contact hours
  • Graduate credit: 2.0 hours graduate credit option available (extra fee/application)
  • Follow up session in Sept. 2023 (Saturday, Online)

NCTA 2023 Flyer Link (pdf)

Applications received by June 15, 2023 (or when filled) will be given priority