Application Now Open for the 2024 Stanford/SPICE East Asia Seminars for Teachers in Hawai‘i

Application Now Open for the 2024 Stanford/SPICE East Asia Seminars for Teachers in Hawai‘i

High school teachers across the state of Hawai‘i are encouraged to apply. Application deadline: February 25, 2024.
Professor speaking in front of several teachers Ken K. Ito, UH Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Literatures, speaks at the 2023 Stanford SEAS Hawai'i Summer Institute.

Applications opened this week for the Stanford/SPICE East Asia Seminars for Teachers in Hawai‘i (“Stanford SEAS Hawai‘i”), a free teacher professional development opportunity for Hawai‘i educators who wish to enhance their teaching of East Asia. Offered by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) with the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, Stanford SEAS Hawai‘i will select 25 teachers to participate in a fellowship from April to July 2024.

The application form is now live at https://forms.gle/DSW48Jegfr5UcmBT8. The deadline to apply is February 25, 2024.

High school teachers across the state are eligible to apply. Selected teachers will strengthen their content knowledge of East Asia by learning from experts in a series of private virtual seminars (April–June) and at a culminating three-day in-person teacher institute in Honolulu in July 2024. Throughout the program, participants will explore and examine various aspects of East Asia, U.S.–Asia relations, and the Asian diaspora in the United States, including Hawai‘i. To help support their teaching of East Asia in the classroom, participants will also receive extensive teaching resources and participate in discussions about content and pedagogy.

Two women standing in a garden
Institute participants engage in a place-based walkabout activity.

“I can truly say that I took away a lot from this experience,” said former fellow Michael Hamilton, who teaches AP World History and AP U.S. Government and Politics at Leilehua High School. “The lectures were outstanding, especially the pre-reading material that I have already used in some classes. Also, the curriculum demonstration provided a model for me to use in my classroom. Small group discussions with my fellow educators, and sharing with them resources has added to my toolbox.”

Mililani High School teacher Amy Boehning agreed. “The lectures and materials on Japan, China, and Korea were incredible and so useful in filling in the gaps of my own knowledge. It just tied everything together with the connections presented. I walked away from the institute a stronger teacher, inspired to continue teaching about Asia in all of the subjects I teach.”

For more information about Stanford SEAS Hawai‘i, visit the program webpage. To apply, submit the online application by February 25.

To be notified of other professional development opportunities, join SPICE’s email list and follow SPICE on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
 



In addition to Stanford SEAS Hawai‘i, SPICE offers teacher PD opportunities virtually to teachers nationwide and locally in California to middle school teachers, high school teachers, and community college instructors. For more information on those programs, please visit the webpages below.
 

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