Join Tese Wintz Neighbor, an experienced NCTA seminar leader with a deep connection to China, as she leads her final seminar session. Tese’s journey with China began in 1976 when she was captivated by a professor’s lecture on “Red China” at Indiana University. Since then, she has never looked back.
Among the first Americans to travel to China after U.S.-China relations normalized in 1979, Tese moved there in the early 1980s and has returned more than 50 times, exploring the country by bike, on foot, by train, and by plane (she just returned from Beijing in late November!).
With 27 years of experience as an NCTA seminar leader, Tese invites you to explore five decades of Chinese history and culture through her unique perspective—rooted in her extensive travels and enriched by the session’s required readings.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from Tese’s passion and firsthand insights!
Books for this seminar
Participants will receive the following books for free:
Dates and Time
Participants can choose to attend as part of Group 1, or as part of Group 2:
Program Requirements
Participants in this program are required to complete 8–10 hours of readings, attend 8 hours of class across four mandatory sessions, and submit a short final project. Educators are expected to have their cameras turned on during all sessions. If a scheduling conflict prevents attendance on a Tuesday evening, participants may join the corresponding Wednesday evening session (or vice versa) to meet attendance requirements and remain eligible for the stipend.
Program benefits
- A physical copy of the books Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order by Yuan Yang, Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic by Terry Lautz (before the start of the seminar) as well as other books (details TBD) after the completion of the program.
- Online Resources.
- 20 Free Washington State OSPI clock hours.
- Participants who attend all sessions and complete all requirements will receive a stipend for $100 to order more books/resources for their classroom.
Registration
This program is open to current, in-service K-12 teachers of all grades and subjects. Priority deadline for application is December 18, 2024. Each Seminar Group will be limited to 20 teachers. If there is space after 12/18, applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Please follow this link to apply.
This program is sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington and funded by a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).