http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/maraas/
9 AM to 4 PM, Friday, October 24, 2008
Rutgers University Douglas Campus Center,
Trayes Hall [100
George St. New Brunswick, 08901]
Teaching Asia Workshops, presented annually for the last 18 years by the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, aim at increasing K-12 teacher's understanding of Asia.
This one-day workshop examines two topics of current relevance to the teaching of Asia and Asian languages—Teaching War and Trauma: The East Asian Experience and Teaching Asian Languages and Cultures to Learners from Heritage Backgrounds. A series of presentations in two panels will focus on the educational methods and approaches to teaching culture and language at the K-12 level. The focus of the workshop will be practical and hands-on, emphasizing actual needs and strategies that can be applied in teaching.
This workshop is open to K-12 educators from New Jersey, the greater New York region, and communities throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Participants are encouraged to also attend the MAR/AAS Annual Conference.
Workshop Schedule
Panel 1 (9:30-12:00) Organizer: Professor Paul Schalow
Invited Panelists:
(1) Resources for teaching about the Atomic Bombing of Japan, "How to Utilize What They Know," Prof. P. Schalow (Rutgers)
(2) Resources for teaching about Korean Comfort Women, Ms. Dai Sil Kim-Gibson (independent writer/filmmaker), Ms. Diane Rogers (journalist, School of Medicine, Stanford Univ.)
(3) Resources for teaching about the Nanjing Massacre, Prof. P. Li (Emeritus, Rutgers & President of Global Alliance)
*Lunch Break (12:00-1:00)
The William Griffis Collection, Alexander Library (1:00-2:00)
Panel 2 (2:00-4:00 PM) Organizer: Professor Richard V. Simmons
Teaching Asian Languages and Cultures to Learners from Heritage Backgrounds
Speakers will discuss educational methods and issues of curriculum development in the areas of Chinese, Japanese and Korean as heritage languages. Each of the speakers will give a 20 minute presentation, and the remainder of the panel time will be for discussion. The emphasis will be on practical methods and approaches that the audience can take back and put to use in their teaching.
Invited panelists:
(1) Teaching Japanese to Heritage Learners, "How to Utilize What They Know," Prof. K. Lee of Lehigh Univ.
(2) Teaching Korean to Heritage Learners, “A Content-Based Approach to Enhance Literacy in Heritage Language and Trans-cultural competence,” Prof. H. Kim of Duke Univ.
(3) Teaching Chinese to Heritage Learners, “Framing CHL Learner Characteristics for Instructional Purposes,” Prof. He of SUNY Stony Brook
(4) Teaching Hindi to Heritage Learners, “Utilizing Popular Cultural Material for Learning Enhancement,” Dr. Sushma Rathor, Rutgers University
* Evening: Korean Music Performance (8PM)
To register for the Teaching Asia Workshop, click here to download a PDF,
or here to download a Microsoft Word file of the registration form.
Please send the form with a check for $10.oo to Dr. Young-mee Cho at the address below.
For
further information please contact
Young-mee Yu Cho,
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick NJ 08540
732-932-7605
yucho@rci.rutgers.edu
This workshop is funded in part by the Council on Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies.