Implementation Plan
(IP) guidelines
(revised 5/7/08)
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NCTAN seminar 20008 at UNC-Wilmington IP due on August 25 (Mon.), 2008 (in case of mailing a CD-ROM, postmarked by August 25, 2008). Please submit the check list with your IP. Please click here to get Check List or go to: http://people.uncw.edu/kanoy/nctan/IP_checklist.htm Presentation of your IP is September 13 (Sat.) and the follow up seminar is on April 25 (Sat.), 2009. |
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Please type your IP using
Microsoft Word and submit it
by e-mail or on a CD to
Yoko Kano at
kanoy@uncw.edu.
The mailing address is: Yoko Kano Freeman Foundation, which generously supported NCTAN has a vision. They think that if we create a forum for a hundred of teachers to be exposed to Asian specialists and resources, they and their students would gain a greater appreciation of the richness and diversity of East Asia. Programs like NCTAN has been spreading over the U.S., and more and more teachers benefit from them and respond the Freeman's commitment with a form of Implementation Plan, which communicates the teachers' commitment and plans to make their best effort to convey their new knowledge about East Asian to their students. Your Implementation Plan
should provide your students more thoughtful and innovative approach to
Asian values, cultures, and traditions by incorporating an authentic Asian
voice (primary sources), provided throughout the seminar speakers, books and materials. The
implementation Plan should reflect what you have learned in the NCTAN
seminar and includes the following information. Please indicate clearly at least the following issues in your IP: Teaching situations: Please include information on the level which you teach (middle, high school, etc) and the discipline (social studies, language arts, etc.) and how much time is given to East Asia in your curriculum and or school. Your plan in the next few years and a sample lesson plan: Please summarize your plan on expanding or creating materials, lessons, and/or curriculum to teach about Asia. How long does it take (timeline) to complete the lesson/curriculum/project, which you submit to NCTAN? If you submit a lesson on only one of the countries, please also state briefly what you are planning to teach about other East Asian countries. For example, if you submit a unit on China, please state what you are also planning to teach about Japan, Korea, and/or Vietnam. Dissemination of your
knowledge: We would like you to be a liaison or a resource person
at your school about East Asia and encourage your peers to incorporate Asia
in their curriculum. Please state how you are planning to share your
knowledge with your colleagues. Will you go to a conference to make a
presentation? Will you hold a study session at your school or school
district to share your knowledge with your peers? Any other thought? Standards, goals, and objectives: Please state how your lesson is applied to the standards (school, local, state, national curriculum/ objectives, etc.) if applicable. Please state them at the beginning of your lesson. Learning from the NCTAN seminar: What different teaching approaches were developed after taking the NCTAN seminar? Please explain how the seminar has helped in introducing materials and ideas in your teaching of Asia. How have NCTAN seminar and materials helped you expand and/or change the lesson plans (if you have taught about Asia before)? Do the activities represent something you have done or are planning to do? If you have taught a similar lesson before, which part is the same/similar and which part is new? Topic which you chose for the curriculum/lessons: Please specify the topics (rather than a board range of topics), such as the influence of Confucianism in China, Korea, & Japan; the spread of Buddhism from China to Korea to Japan; women’s places in Asian society, etc. Whole unit or a part of it?: If a part of unit will be turned in, please state so and include the objectives of the whole unit and the submitted lesson’s relation to the whole unit. If the whole unit is submitted, please include a representative lesson plan of the unit. Objectives, procedures, activities, and assessments: They need to be included in the description of each lesson. Handouts, worksheets, resources, and any other materials to use: Please attach all the materials and handouts you use for the lesson with answer keys (some materials such as keys or copyrighted materials will not be listed on the web but might be distributed among the teachers). Please clearly indicate the source of your handouts and materials. If you made the submitted handouts, please so indicate. Technology: How is technology utilized in this lesson? Please at least include some web sites for your students to further deepen their knowledge. We also encourage for you to consider the following elements: How do you involve community into your lesson? (E.g. speakers, material donation, etc.) How do you encourage your students to be involved with the community with their knowledge and learning about Asia? Can your lesson be utilized for interdisciplinary lessons with teachers of other subjects? We
encourage you to involve other teachers to share your excitement and
knowledge!!| |
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Some suggestions and issues to think about in writing IP. Provide content to the lessons, which represents Asian voices and thoughts. : Each activity needs to provide students with some content (e.g. philosophical background, history, Confucius teachings, etc.) rather than just an introduction of products, customs, etc. For example, when you introduce Chinese food, it would be interesting to research such terms as bird’s nest soup or thousand year old eggs. Or Chinese food can be associated with folk culture such as the (paper) kitchen gods whose lips were smeared with honey so that when they were burned at New Years they could report to heaven the good (sweet) deeds of the family during the year. When you want to introduce Chinese writings and/or calligraphy, you can first study about Confucius philosophy (goodness, filial piety, gentleman, emperor) and then show some cards written several Chinese characters associated with the concepts. Submit instructional materials: We often ask students to research a topic using library and Internet resources, which is a great way for students to get information and take initiative in their learning. The Implementation Plan can include those activities but the majority of the submitted plan has to be about your instructional materials with the handouts (please attach them to your plan), information, and bibliography that you are planning to use. IP samples: Click below. Bill Graham, 8th grade social studies, D. C. Virgo Middle School, Wilmington, NC Nuhn Johnson, Social Studies/6th, Williston Middle School, Wilmington, NC Daniel Britt, Social Studies 7th, Shallotte Middle School, Shallotte, NC
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IP presentation (in April 25, 2009) after the submitted lesson is conducted in the classroom: Presentation is only 10 min. per teacher. Please discuss what worked and what needs to be improved; what you were planning to do a year ago; what you did or did not do this year. Bring some student samples to show. |
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For any question or comment, please contact Yoko Kano at kanoy@uncw.edu at UNC, Wilmington, 601 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC 28403-5954 |
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