Professional Development Programs
Professional development opportunities encourage educators to explore current issues in international studies through conferences, seminars, short courses and faculty presentations.
Week-long (30 contact hours) summer institutes challenge teachers to combine experience in applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills to international issues with the knowledge and materials needed to engage their students. To prepare our students for global citizenship in the 21st Century, the Institute for Global Studies, the Consortium for the Study of the Asias, and the European Studies Consortium are working to strengthen international studies in K-16 education. The Teacher Summer Institutes combine lectures by University of Minnesota faculty and guest speakers, small group discussions, course readings, and teaching resources to explore international issues and learn strategies for integrating global topics into existing curriculum. The Summer Institutes are funded by a Title VI grant from US Department of Education.
Contact
E-mail Molly McCoy at mccoy019@umn.edu with questions.
Fall Programs 2009
Water in the World: Science, Society, Scarcity
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Instructors:
Paul Porter, Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Brad Greiman, Division of Agricultural Education and Applied Economics
Gene Allen, Department of Animal Science David Mulla, Soil, Water, and Climate
Karlyn Eckman, Water Resources Center
Mark Seeley, Soil, Water, and Climate
Jim Perry, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
The Institute for Global Studies welcomes K-12 agricultural educators, farm business management instructors, and community college instructors to attend a series of professional development workshops that will help teachers become better informed in global water issues. Special emphasis will be given to curriculum development and integration into the Minnesota classroom, in addition to content-driven lectures by leading University of Minnesota faculty members.
Teachers are required to attend all five sessions and have the option of earning graduate credit at a reduced rate, or earning CEUs. Lodging, travel, and substitute teacher expenses will be covered for all program participants.
Program is available first-come, first-served and space is limited.
To register, submit online registration form at http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/registration.html or call Molly McCoy at 612-624-7346.
Religion and Law in the Global Middle Ages
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Religion and Law in the Global Middle Ages” brings together internationally distinguished scholars, faculty and students from the University of Minnesota, and community members including high school teachers, to discuss the period when some of our most compelling contemporary issues were first formulated: for example, separation between religion and the state, toleration of minority religious groups in a theocratic state, and authority to decide when and how sacred texts are binding. As Christianity and Islam came to be the dominant religions and legal systems in their respective regions and a scattered Jewish community maintained its identity through shared law, and other regions of the world developed traditions separate from the three interrelated cultures of Europe and the Middle East, the relation between religion and law was continually contested.
Register through the Center for Medieval Studies at cmedst@umn.edu or call 612-626-0805.
Registration Fee: $15 includes lunch and 6 CEUs.
Presented by the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, with generous funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Minnesota Imagine Fund supported by a generous donation from the McKnight Foundation, the College of Liberal Arts, the History Department, the European Studies Consortium and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Diasporic Hmong Litercies
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 10:30 - 4:30pm
A lot of commentary -- formal and informal -- has been made about the situation of literacy in the Hmong community. From notions of "preliteracy" and the advent of a popular, Romanized alphabet in Laos in the 1950s to the literacy successes and failures of Hmong children in the American education system, Hmong histories -- of culture and migrations -- are steeped in discourses of literacies. This one-day workshop invites teachers to immerse themselves in artifacts of Hmong literacy that originate throughout the diaspora, in both time and space. Examining several Hmong literacy primers, unpacking various myths and histories of Hmong literacy, and contemplating the deployment of various Hmong literacy systems in the twenty-first century will keep us busy. We'll be attentive to the opportunities to embed the various details and contexts of Hmong literacies into the curricula and lessons of each teacher who participates.
Registration Fee: $20 include instruction, readings, materials, 6 CEUs and lunch.
Location: Rondo Public Library - 460 University Ave, St Paul, MN
Exhuming Bodies, Producing Knowledge: Collective Memory, Justice and Restitution in Contemporary Spain
K-14 educators are invited to attend a colloquium series that will lead up to an international conference in the spring of 2010. The colloquium series which serves as a reading group, is aimed at providing educators and students with an opportunity to explore the role that the recent exhumations of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and subsequent dictatorship have had in the emergence of the movement for the “recovery of historical memory” in Spain.
Each of the monthly colloquium sessions will stem from a reading that participants are expected to read in advance, and will provide participants with a solid understanding of the issues that will be highlighted during the conference in spring 2010.
Colloquium Sessions are free and open to K-14 educators, and readings will be posted online in advance. Please register at http://www.igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/registration.html.
Educators can earn CEUs for attending colloquium sessions and the conference.
Next Colloquium Meeting:
December 11, 2009
3:30pm - 5:00pm
614 Social Sciences Building
Questions? Please contact IGS Outreach Coordinator, Molly McCoy at outreach@umn.edu or 612-624-7346.