Special Opportunity for Delaware Teachers
February 12, 2021
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Special Opportunity for Delaware Teachers: Matthew Sudnik, a teacher of Human Geography and History Department Chair at The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, will discuss AP Human Geography Unites 5 and 6, presenting specific lesson plans for the geography of agriculture and urban geography. Examples discussed will include the geography of tea cultivation and tea culture in East Asia and a closer look at urban geography from New York, Chicago, and Detroit to Tokyo, Shanghai, and Singapore. Participants will receive a copy of Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser after the program.
To register for this program, please visit this link: https://forms.gle/EDwTRMhbaTxecPgK6
The program is co-sponsored by the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia at the University of Pittsburgh with the Delaware Department of Education.
Matthew Sudnik is the History Department Chair at The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia. He previously served as Director of the Scholars Program at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Matthew has taught courses in World History, Human Geography, Philosophy, and Humanities. He completed his NCTA 30-hour Seminar in 2010 at the University of Pittsburgh and traveled with NCTA on study tours to China (2011), Japan (2012, 2017), and Taiwan (2019). He is also currently the workshop coordinator for NCTA in Northern Virginia, a program of the NCTA coordinating site at the University of Colorado.