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Teaching about East Asia, an online professional development course for in-service educators, offers an interdisciplinary overview of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures from earliest times through the twentieth century with emphasis on philosophical and historical contexts. Topics will include those found in state, national, and Advanced Placement (AP) standards for world history and are also applicable for teachers of the gifted, language arts, fine arts, school librarians, and other K-16 educators interested in teaching about this area.
To master the course content, you are encouraged to both listen to the presentations in each lesson, which replicate actual classroom discussions, and to read these presentations in print format to reinforce what you have heard, in addition to accessing the web resources and graphics that enhance the course content.
Eight writing assignments are required throughout the course, one for each lesson. In addition, two lesson plans are required, one to be submitted after Lesson Six and one after Lesson Eight. Selected lesson plans may be posted on the Lesson Plans section of the Kansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia website. Finally, participants must submit an action plan (which will be 5-6 double-spaced pages in length) explaining how they will use what they learned in this class in their own work. This plan must note some of the information and resources, especially primary sources, which participants intend to share with their own students and how they plan to be a resource person about East Asia in their own schools or work places. See a sample action plan.
All lesson plans must:
Examples of several lesson plans which have met these criteria are posted on the Lesson Plans section of the Kansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia website
Follow the email instructions to submit the writing assignments, lesson plans, and action plan. (Enrolled students are provided a link to the email instructions.)
Plagiarism is presenting someone else's words or work as your own. Plagiarism applies to material taken from a book, article, or the Internet, and to material taken from another person. Paraphrasing another writer, substituting words, or rearranging sentences from the work of another also constitutes plagiarism. Plagiarism is easily detected with databases and search engines.
Plagiarism is academic misconduct and is a violation of rules and regulations of the University of Kansas. Penalties for academic misconduct range from failure of the assignment to expulsion from the University. In this course, plagiarism on an assignment will result in an F for that assignment, and any additional plagiarism will result in failure of the course and possible further penalties. Plagiarism on an examination will result in failure of the course, regardless of the current status of your grade. If plagiarism is discovered after you complete the course, your instructor may reexamine your work and will notify you of the proposed penalty. If you disagree with a charge of academic misconduct, you may request a review by Continuing Education.
The KU Writing Center provides guidance on academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
Current participants and alums of Teaching about East Asia are encouraged to participate in the class discussion group.
8 writing assignments = 25% of the course grade. Each lesson plan = 25% of the grade. The action plan = 25% of the grade.
There is no final exam.
You may download the necessary software for viewing videos and listening to audio lectures at RealPlayer. The free RealPlayer Basic player is sufficient for this course.
