NCTA provides content rich professional development programs for K-12 educators and pre-service teachers in all fields. This includes face-to-face college level seminars, online courses, workshops, book groups, webinars, and among other opportunities. Below are current offerings both locally and nationwide:
Art and Society in Contemporary Korea
October 21 & October 28, 2023
9:00am - 4:00 pm (Eastern Time)
In Person at the University of Pennsylvania & Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Kim Center for Korean Studies are co-sponsoring upcoming NCTA mini-course focused on Contemporary Korean Art and Society. Our program will be held over two Saturdays, October 21st and October 28th, 2023, 9am-4pm.
The first day of the program will be hosted by faculty and staff of the Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (3rd floor of 3600 Market St), and the second day will be held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, coinciding with the opening of the special new exhibit on contemporary Korean Art The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 (a guided tour will also be part of the program).
Participating teachers will receive materials for their classrooms.
Pennsylvania teachers who complete the workshop will receive Act 48 hours.
For teachers in other states, we can provide you with a Certificate of Completion.
Chinese Sci-fi and the Imagination of Sustainable Futures:
An NCTA Resource Workshop for K-12 Educators
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
6:00 - 8:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Online, Synchronous
The first thirty K-12 educators to attend and fully participate in the workshop will receive a complimentary copy of Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, by Ken Liu.
Pennsylvania teachers who complete the workshop will receive Act 48 hours.
For teachers in other states, we can provide you with a Certificate of Completion.
Registration deadline: November 13, 2023
Food in Contemporary Japanese Literature,
a workshop for K–12 educators
October 25, 2023
6:00-8:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Online via Zoom, synchronous
We can learn so much about a culture through its food, and Japan has an exceptionally rich cuisine. This workshop offers an introduction to contemporary Japanese literature through readings that celebrate food. We will begin with a video featuring award-winning author Hideo Furukawa and his translator, Kendall Heitzman, discussing a chapter from his memoir Zero F, set in Fukushima after the March 2011 disaster. Next, we will look at popular Japanese literary genres, including manga, modern tanka poetry, the I-novel tradition, and zuihitsu. Then we will play with the possibilities of translation, using a tanka by Ainu poet Hokuto Iboshi, guided by notes from poetry translator Andrew Campana. Last but not least, we will brainstorm how these five readings could be used in the classroom. This workshop will provide guidance for teachers in K-12 who want to include contemporary Japanese writing in their curriculum or to focus on food writing.
Before the workshop, you will receive a PDF of the five readings. After the workshop, you will receive a print copy of volume 1 of the annual anthology MONKEY New Writing from Japan.
Pennsylvania teachers who complete the workshop will receive Act 48 hours.
For teachers in other states, we can provide you with a Certificate of Completion.
Registration deadline: October 24, 2023
Centering Taiwan in Global Asia:
An NCTA Resource Workshop for K-12 Educators
October 19, 2023
5:30-7:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Online
Join us for an engaging K-12 curriculum resource workshop in which we examine the island of Taiwan's rich and compelling historical narrative as well as the important role it plays in today's geopolitical and economic landscape. This workshop will also include strategies for incorporating the study of Taiwan into the K-12 classroom with the award-winning interactive curriculum resource website, Centering Taiwan in Global Asia. A PDF of online resources will also be provided to all participants.
To complement the free, online resources offered to all participants, the first 20 K-12 educators who register, attend, and fully participate in the workshop will also receive a complimentary copy of Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse by Shelley Rigger.
Pennsylvania teachers who complete the workshop will receive Act 48 hours.
For teachers in other states, we can provide you with a Certificate of Completion.
Registration deadline: October 18, 2023
Workshop Speakers
Evan Dawley is Associate Professor of History at Goucher College, where he has taught since 2013. He is the author of Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s, which was published in 2019 by the Harvard Asia Center Press. His current project, titled “Chinese, Chinese Abroad, and the International Construction of the Modern Nation-State, 1920s-1970s” explores the ongoing creation of Chinese identities in the context of relations between the ROC government and communities of Chinese and Taiwanese abroad, and interactions with foreign governments around these communities, across the twentieth century.
Catherine Fratto, a former high school Social Studies teacher with nearly 15 years of classroom experience, is the Engagement Coordinator for the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for International Studies (UCIS). In this position, Catherine develops Asian Studies-related curriculum resources and programs for the K-16 classroom and supports UCIS-wide programming and events for K-16 educators and students, student clubs, and the wider community. Catherine is one of the lead developers of the Asian Studies Center’s award-winning website, Centering Taiwan in Global Asia.
