This presentation provided teachers with a historical foundation of the island of Taiwan, from its waves of Indigenous peoples from Austronesian-speaking islands and early settlement from mainland China, to the role it played as a nexus for global trade networks between East Asia, South Asia, and Europe, to its colonization by both European and Asian empires, to its post-WW II political oppression under KMT martial law, and finally to the Taiwan Miracle of the 1970s to present, and its democratization starting in the late 1980s.

Teachers were provided with curriculum content and strategies for incorporating these pivotal eras and themes of Taiwan's history into their classroom instruction, specifically through the use of the "Centering Taiwan in Global Asia" curriculum resource website. Teachers worked in groups by grade level and explored the website's interactive map pages, lesson plans, and primary source document resources to consider ways that they could incorporate the content and themes discussed through a global lens.