Institutes and Workshops for Educators
The African Studies Outreach Program organizes and supports regular workshops for educators to discuss curricular approaches to the teaching of Africa.
Upcoming Workshops:
- Effective Strategies for Teaching and Learning about Africa: A Workshop for K-12 Schools,
New Orleans, Louisiana
November 21, 2009 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
ASA Teachers' Workshop 
- Celebrating African Women Writers: A Workshop for K-12 & Community College Educators
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
March 2010 [Exact date to be determined]
In conjunction with our African Women Writers Festival, April 4-11, 2010, the Center for African Studies and the Department of Theatre will host a half-day teachers' workshop. Where teachers will learn more about the authors and performers coming, their works, the issues addressed, and receive curricular materials. CPDUs will be offered. School visits by the visitors are also a possibility.
If you are interested, fill out an expression of interest form.
- Africa Institute for Educators
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
June 2010 [Exact date to be determined]
This institute will introduce K-12 teachers, pre-service teachers, and community college instructors to useful content and curriculum ideas for teaching about African arts, history, languages and literatures, economics, cultures, and more! The sessions will be held in Champaign-Urbana on the University of Illinois campus. Sessions will be led by faculty and advanced graduate student whose work focuses on Africa. CPDUs will be offered.
If you are interested, fill out an expression of interest form.
Recent workshops have included:
- Midwest Institute's Summer Workshop (co-sponsorship)
Global Poverty and Inequality
August 3-7, 2009
- International Education Teacher's Workshop
Keynote lecture: Professor Rudy Mattai, SUNY-Buffalo
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 14, 2009
- "Africa in the K-12 Curriculum," African Studies Association, New York October 19, 2007
- International Summer Institute: World Cultures Through Literature and Film 2007
- "Teaching and Learning about the African Experience," African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 18, 2006
- "Learning & Teaching about Africa and the Middle East," African Studies Association and Middle Eastern Studies Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. November 19, 2005
- International Summer Institute: The Lives of Kids Around the World 2005
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