TEACHER'S WORKSHOP INFORMATION

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Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Encountering Asia: A Workshop for K-12 Teachers
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8:15-3:15 (optional session to 5:15pm)
Miami University

Instructions for registration:

  1. Download and print the registration form
  2. Fill out required information, including your lunch box preference
  3. Enclose a $45 check payable to Miami University
  4. Mail your form with check to: MCAA Teacher’s Workshop Registration, Dept. of GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
  5. Registrations must be received by October 9 for lunch to be included.  You may continue to register through October 15, but you will not be guaranteed a lunch.

Information about Continuing Education Units (CEUs):

  • We are pleased to offer certificates for continuing education at a rate of 0.1 CEUs for every hour attended at the workshop, up to 0.9 CEUs.
  • If participants attend the three workshop panels plus the lunch exhibition, they will receive 0.7 CEUs.
  • If participants attend the optional presidential panels (or another panel), they may receive up to 0.2 additional CEUs based on hours attended.
  • Participants will need to sign in an attendance form for each workshop session attended
  • CEU award certificates will be mailed to participants upon completion of the workshop.
  • It is up to each participant to submit the CEU award certificates to their local LPDC as application for credit.
  • If you would like to attend MCAA panels not officially included in the Teacher’s Workshop and receive credit, you must do the following:
    • Select a panel, exhibition, or presentation from the MCAA conference schedule that you would like to attend
    • Send an email to Stacy Brinkman, MCAA Outreach Coordinator: brinkmsn@muohio.edu.  Indicate which panel you would like to attend BEFORE October 16, 2009
    • Stacy will create a special sign-in sheet for the panel you indicated.
    • Make sure you sign the special attendance form on the day of the conference to ensure you get credit.

Tentative Schedule for Teacher’s Conference

7:45 – 8:15: Registration packet pick-up

8:15 – 10:00:  Panel 1: Roundtable – Lessons on Asia
Chair:  Stacy Brinkman, Miami University
What is the "Lineage" of South Korea After All?: Most Wired "Ancient" in Asia
Lesa Bame, Jefferson Township High School
Chinese Inventions and Their Impact on Today's Technology
Kymn Bennett, Garfield Middle School
Japanese in America: Citizens without Rights
Kerry Dugan, Colerain High School
Japanese Tea Bowls
Leanne Foley, Waynesville High School
Discussant:  Julie Froude, Miami University/Hamilton City Schools (pending)

10:15 – 12:00:  Panel 2: Interactive Workshop – Asian Dress in the Global Context
Sara Butler, Miami University

12:00 – 1:15: Lunch and Art Exhibition – “Seeing is Believing – Two bodies of recent work”
Jon Yamashiro, Miami University

1:30 – 3:15: Panel 3: Writer’s Workshop – The Study of Oneself and One’s People in Prose
Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

3:30 – 5:15: MCAA Presidential Panel (optional)