Teacher Training
The Southeast Asia Program Outreach office offers a number of teacher training workshops and professional development opportunities throughout the school year and into the summer. Topics are either thematic or broadly conceived. Some focus soley on Southeast Asia, while others are collaborative workshops organized with other area studies programs.
We approach our offerings with the understanding that they should be standards based and have an application to specific elementary, middle, or high school curricula. Teachers receive a combination of content area expertise and practical ideas for how to use that expertise in the classroom. Teachers are provided with lesson plans, handouts, resources and other materials for use in their future planning. These professional development workshops are funded in part by a National Resource Center grant (Title VI) from the U.S. Department of Education.
We approach our offerings with the understanding that they should be standards based and have an application to specific elementary, middle, or high school curricula. Teachers receive a combination of content area expertise and practical ideas for how to use that expertise in the classroom. Teachers are provided with lesson plans, handouts, resources and other materials for use in their future planning. These professional development workshops are funded in part by a National Resource Center grant (Title VI) from the U.S. Department of Education.
Southeast Asia Teacher Study Group
Participants meet every other month on Tuesdays from 3:45-5pm to discuss topics related to Southeast Asia, including ways of reaching our Southeast Asian students more effectively. Download a flyer (above) with specific topics and dates.
Professional development hours and in-service credit are available to those who register through TST BOCES/ MyLearning Plan: http://moodle.tstboces.org/pd/ Sessions are held at the Kahin Center for Research on Southeast Asia, 640 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca, NY unless otherwise noted.
If you teach outside of the Ithaca area and cannot make it to the study group but would like us to hold a short workshop on one of these or another topic in your school or district, contact us and we will try to accommodate groups of 15 or more teachers.
Professional development hours and in-service credit are available to those who register through TST BOCES/ MyLearning Plan: http://moodle.tstboces.org/pd/ Sessions are held at the Kahin Center for Research on Southeast Asia, 640 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca, NY unless otherwise noted.
If you teach outside of the Ithaca area and cannot make it to the study group but would like us to hold a short workshop on one of these or another topic in your school or district, contact us and we will try to accommodate groups of 15 or more teachers.
Burma/Myanmar and its Diverse Peoples
In-service and after school professional development presentations are available to help teachers understand the history and culture of this complex country and the diverse ethnic groups that make up its population. As Karen, Chin, and Burmese refugees resettle in the U.S. teachers need to find ways to better understand the backgrounds of their new students as well as ways to help all students learn more about this fascinating part of the world.
Cornell Professional Development Day
Workshops on traditional games, environmental sustainability around the world, language teaching in the 21st century, and how to use a global performance database are some of the offerings that the Southeast Asia program will be collaborating on through CERIS during the March 20, 2009 Cornell Professional Development Day.
International Studies Institutes
These institutes are generally held in the spring and summer and involve a collaboration through CERIS. You can explore the themes and topics covered by past workshops below. During the school year, you may also want to participate in the jointly sponsored Current Events Teacher Study Group.
Past Workshops and Institutes