National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, University of Pittsburgh coordinating site

The National Consoritum for Teaching About Asia (NCTA), funded by the Freeman Foundation, is a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about East Asia in K-12 schools nationwide. NCTA is a premier provider of professional development for K-12 educators nationwide.
The University of Pittsburgh coordinating site, housed in the Asian Studies Center, manages professional development for K-12 educators in eleven states: Alabama, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennyslvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. In coordination with the six other coordinating sites, Pitt NCTA provides 30-hour seminars, study tours, online book groups, online courses, summer institutes, workshops, and a variety of other programs and resources for K-12 educators.

Services Offered: 
Guest Speakers
Professional Development Workshops
Resource Lending Library

Resources

Here is a sample of materials generated by the National Consortium on Teaching About Asia or as a result of programming in which they participated.

Bibliographies/Suggested Readings

Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary

Teaching Go was an online book discussion of the 2018 Freeman Award winning book, Go, by Kazuki Kaneshiro that took place in May 2020. A modern nod to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Go is the story of a Korean boy and a Japanese girl who fall in love. Kaneshiro examines the ideas of fate and love at first sight, friendship and violence. The author’s main focus of...

Video

Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary

The Sound of (Japanese) Music Course Resources: A series of presentations and performances by four Japanese music ethnomusicologists that occurred in the late spring/summer of 2020. Designed to deepen your level of understanding...

Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary

Whose Narrative: Re-examining War Memorials in East Asia and the US was an innovative collaboration held on April 4, 2019. The recorded video program featured Dr. David Kenley, Elizabethtown...

Outreach at National Consortium on Teaching About Asia

Patrick Hughes
Assistant Director, University of Pittsburgh coordinating site for the NCTA
Asian Studies Center, National Consortium on Teaching About Asia
Brenda G. Jordan
Director, University of Pittsburgh coordinating site for the NCTA
Asian Studies Center, National Consortium on Teaching About Asia