Links for Teachers

Asia for Educators:  An initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college K-12 levels.   http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/#

Curriculum Internationalization Resources for Community Colleges:  The University of Arizona host a site in collaboration with 15 National Resource Centers to share and promote online resources for community college instructors. Topics include background information, reading and media lists, and lesson plans in a wide range of Social Science, Arts, Humanities, and STEM fields for all Title VI World Areas. Centers can also add links to professional development programs on international themes for community college educators.

Digital South Asian Library at the University of Chicago (images, maps and other resources)

The Global Education Coalition is a network of NYC-based organizations whose primary objective is to support educators in the New York metropolitan area in creating globally competent youth for tomorrow's future. http://gecnyc.wordpress.com/

The Indian Ocean in World History:  This online resource enables users to explore primary source historical evidence about interactions among people in the lands around the Indian Ocean throughout history, from the earliest pre-historic times to the present.  The site has been designed for use by  students, teachers, and general audiences.

The International and Foreign Language Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education is a portal site with information about Group Projects Abroad, Fulbright fellowships, Language Resource Centers, and many other programs and opportunities for K-16 educators.  http://iris.ed.gov/iris/ieps/irishome.cfm    

IFLE Group on Open Educational Resource Commons is a repository for resources developed with the support of Fulbright-Hays and Title VI grants.             

The Kaur Foundation is a national non-profit organization that partners with the country’s school systems to bring education about Sikh Americans into K-12 classrooms through school curriculum materials and teacher training.

Portal Site for the National Resource Centers for Language, Area, and International and Area Studies Programs of the U.S. Department of Education: 105 National Resource Centers (NRCs) throughout the United States have been established at colleges and universities with funding from the U.S. Department of Education to establish, strengthen, and operate language and area or international studies centers that will be national resources for teaching any modern foreign language. Find an NRC near you, upcoming K-12 teacher training workshops, and resources for the classroom.  https://iris.ed.gov/programs/nrc

A weblinks directory to South Asian history, cultures and literatures on South Asia, compiled by Professor Emerita Frances Pritchett, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia. It features links to general resources; timelines; maps of South Asia: historical, political, topographic, demographic; art and architecture; Islam in general and Islam in South Asia; South Asian literature; Hindi and Urdu language and literature; calligraphy, and the life of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.  http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp

South Asia Book Awards:  An annual award presented by the South Asia National Outreach Consortium (SANOC), to honor high-quality children's and young adult books that portray South Asia or South Asians living abroad.  The website includes the list of awardees 2012 to present, as well as lesson plans developed to use the books in the classroom.

Teaching the World:   Teaching the World is a collection of resources created by Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs), which are higher education areas or international studies centers partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Through these grants, educational institutions across the United States are able to establish and run various language and area centers that provide national resources to educators and students.  National Resource Centers offer resources available locally and nationally. These include virtual classroom visits, training workshops and seminars, multimedia materials, lesson plans, and more. Explore region-specific resources, and check out the calendar of upcoming events.

Title VI Centers for International Business Education (CIBEs) meet the workforce and technological needs of the U.S. business community by training professionals with expertise in international business, world languages, U.S. trade, and research on business theories and practices. Sixteen CIBEs are located at universities across the country and serve as regional and national resources to business professionals, stakeholders, students, and teachers at all levels. Visit the CIBEs’ joint website for more information.

For Language Instructors