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The Center for Teaching International Relations offers graduate level, content-rich continuing education courses for K-12 teachers. Course topics include world history, comparative politics, cultural and physical geography, foreign languages, and economics. CTIR has several exciting workshops slated for the 2005-06 academic year, starting with those listed below. All courses count towards CDE recertification hours, and optional graduate credit is available for each course from the University of Denver. Unless otherwise stated, all CTIR courses are held on the University of Denver campus. Registrants will receive a campus map and parking information prior to the workshop. Registration: All courses require pre-registration. Please read over our course policies then register for a course by downloading our course registration form. Fax the completed registration form and deposit fee(s) to 303.871.2456 attn: CTIR or mail to: CTIR To register by phone, or to receive additional information, contact Claire Hamilton at 303-871-2402 or email chamil22@du.edu. Fall 2005 Courses: Understanding Modern India Meeting the Standards and Teaching through Film Saturday, Nov. 12 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Location: to be announced (on DU campus) Cost: $55 or $115 for one Univ. of Denver credit Instructor: Devang Vyas India is an up and coming giant on the international economic, political, and cultural scene. Come get a crash course on where India has come from and what its future looks like. In this workshop, you will learn about India’s history, religions, and culture. You will then spend time examining India’s relations with its neighbors and the U.S. Finally, you will learn how India leapfrogged into economic prominence in the past decade and examine the impact of globalization on India. This interactive workshop will provide you with abundant resources such as timelines, biographies, and other materials that can help you pull your lessons together. You will also see examples of authentic teaching resources used in India, including comic books that tell legends about the Hindu Gods. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is showing Mystic India (an IMAX film) which you could incorporate into a unit on India. * * * Mr. Vyas was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. He has a B.A. in History from Bhonsala Military College (Pune University) in Nasik, India, and a M.A. from King’s College in London. He directs an institute called Research India, which works to promote research on contemporary Indian issues related to security, politics, and history. Previously, Mr. Vyas worked for the Office of the Indian Ambassador-at-Large in New York. Mr. Vyas is an excellent and entertaining lecturer who hosted a weekly radio talk show on WCNJ in the New York City area on contemporary issues on the Indian subcontinent. Meeting the Standards and Teaching through Film Featuring Children of Heaven - Life in Iran Saturday, Dec. 10 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Location: to be announced (on DU campus) Cost: $55 or $115 for one Univ. of Denver Instructor: Eileen Mattingly Teaching through film can revolutionize the way children see the world. Films allow students to understand cultures and countries far beyond what textbooks can convey. Come learn how to combine quality international films about youth with rigorous, standards-based lesson plans for social studies, language arts, math, geography, science, the arts, and media literacy. This workshop will feature “Children of Heaven,” a delightful tale from Iran about a brother and sister who share a pair of shoes when the sister’s pair is lost. Since their parents are too poor to buy another pair, the children keep it a secret, trading off the shoes with one another, until they learn about a race in which the third place prize is a new pair of shoes. Other films that will be sampled and discussed include “The Cup” (Tibet), “The Way Home” (South Korea), and “Whale Rider” (New Zealand). This workshop is presented by Journeys in Film, a program that marries high quality international films with integrated, standards-based curriculum. The workshop focuses on how to use the film as the basis of an integrated curriculum of science, math, language arts, art, and social studies. Participants will receive a packet of lesson plans for this film and information about other films and corresponding curricula. * * * Eileen Mattingly has a long and distinguished career in teaching. She taught for over 30 years in multiple locations including a high school in the Philippines, a junior high in Manhattan, and several middle and high schools in Maryland. She has earned advanced professional certification in English, History, and Social Studies. Ms. Mattingly has written curriculum for an A.P. Language and Composition course and a program in American Ethnic Minority Literature. She has written lesson plans for PBS Frontline and Bill Moyers NOW. She has presented workshops for the NCTE, NCSS, and other organizations. She has also served as the Director of the Coverdell World Wise Schools. As Senior Editor for the Journeys in Film curriculum series, Eileen is preparing lessons in social studies, language arts, math, science and other disciplines. She is strongly committed to interdisciplinary curriculum. Ms. Mattingly has a B.S. from Georgetown University, an M.A. from St. John’s University, and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
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