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What is NCTA?
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The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
is a collaboration of several East Asian Centers at leading universities across the United States: the University of Washington, the University of Colorado, Indiana University, Columbia University, and Five Colleges, Inc. (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst). In August 2001, the University of Pittsburgh joined NCTA as a regional site serving Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh was promoted to an NCTA National Coordinating Site.
The Pittsburgh regional staff consists of Brenda Jordan, Patrick Hughes, and Diana Marston Wood
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Each year, the NCTA supports East Asian seminars around the country. Consisting of thirty hours of instruction, the seminars attract more than 1,500 middle and high school teachers annually with 100 of them coming from the Pittsburgh regional site.
These seminars are designed to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about Asia in secondary courses in World History, Geography, Social Studies, and World Literature. Seminar leaders include university faculty of Asian studies, Asia outreach specialists, and master teachers working in collaboration with their own institutions and the consortium. Teachers who are interested in taking the seminar are selected based on their commitment to integrate Asian studies into their curricula.
Participating teachers greatly benefit from NCTA seminars in numerous ways. They receive a generous stipend, teaching materials and books for the seminar, and Asian resource materials for their school. In the following year, the teachers receive an additional stipend, provided that they have implemented Asia into their curricula. In addition, NCTA administers study tours to Asia, which are available through national and regional centers.
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