The following website, http://www.nctasia.org/, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), is a resourceful website for teachers. The website offers a plethora of teaching materials to teachers from each state. For example, it offers seminars in which people of expertise provide teachers with content material about how to teach student from the primary and secondary levels. Moreover, there are also study tours and summer institutes offered to educators. The website and the program offer online webinars where they discuss topics such as language in the classroom and how to integrate standards with Asian related studies. Like my membership to NCTE, I plan to use this website as a means of become a member of NCTA in order to gain ideas and expertise about how to incorporate Asian studies in literature class.
Moreover, I found another interesting website that is very similar to the aforementioned one. This website is: http://spice.stanford.edu/docs/professional_development/, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education. The link, Asia for Educators provides teachers with a geographic perspective, online museum of resources on Asian art, literature across the curriculum and living in the Chinese cosmos. It also has a time period. This friendly-user website has a Time period timeline and is divided amongst the most significant events of the time. I believe that this website can be utilized by students in both History and Literature classes. One of my goals for the next school year is to work closely with the History teacher and engage in cross-curricular teaching and prepare lessons that coexist with the topics of both classes. This website would be a good resource for me to gather ideas and present them to the History department. I like the interactive maps, images, and the fact that the web pages are broken down in the: Economic Revolution, Technology, Cities, Confucianism, and the Outside World. There is so much that can be done with the implementation of technology.
edited by dcoronel on 5/23/2013
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