Educators

Find exceptional programs and materials to energize and enliven your classroom!

This area is designed to enable elementary and secondary school (K-12) educators to take advantage of professional development programs and cross-cultural exchange opportunities, including the US Department of State-supported American Youth Leadership Program (AYLP) with Cambodia and the China-US Education Exchange.  These programs take place in Hawai‘i and across the United States, online, and throughout Asia.

We are also continually developing content-rich and skill-based teaching materials and a wide range of resources to support K-12 educators to deepen and expand teaching about the Asia Pacific region.  To this end we are making available Education Resources and Materials such as lesson plans, Powerpoint presentations, lecture notes, and timelines; and commentary and analysis on the Topics and Issues that affect the Asia Pacific region.

Currently featured are classroom resources devoted to the subject “Southeast Asia: At the Crossroads of World War II,” which seek to capture the historical contexts and strategic aspects of WWII in Southeast Asia—a pivotal, but often overlooked, world region.   Designed to assist educators who wish to include the Southeast Asian region as part of their teaching about World War II, these materials were developed as part of the East-West Center’s 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for School Teachers.

We would also like to call educators’ attention to several programs designed to foster meaningful peer-to-peer connections between and among students and teachers across the Asia Pacific region.  Open Channels sponsors online classroom exchanges and includes lesson plans for the inaugural exchanges Asia Pacific Collage, Take Ten, and Going Green, which were timed to coincide with the APEC summit that took place in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, during November 2011.  Schools-Helping-Schools offers teachers (and their classes/schools) hands-on opportunities to support grassroots community service projects in Asia.

AsiaPacificEd invites educators, specialists, and organizations to contact us with their own submissions and recommendation for Asia Pacific resources, and likewise ask that those who are looking for something specific and unable to find it to contact us.