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Welcome to the Program for Teaching East Asia

The Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) at the Center for Asian Studies conducts national, regional, and state projects designed to enhance and expand teaching and learning about East Asia at the elementary and secondary school levels. Specific projects focus on curriculum development, professional development for teachers, and curriculum consultation and reform related to Asia in K-12 education.泭 TEA projects are currently supported by a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation and grants from the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in San Francisco, The Japan Foundation, New York and the CU Office泭for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship.

The Program for Teaching East Asia is conducted under the auspices of the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder Center for Asian Studies. Our Center's statements on Institutional Racism in the US and the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Campus Land Use may be found at /cas/center-asian-studies-statements.

Current Programs

Summer 2026

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Layers of History and Identity: Summer Study in Taiwan. June 21 - July 5, 2026, in Taiwan. During these two weeks, 14 participants will learn about Taiwans history and culture while visiting multiple cities and sites. Application is open to full-time, in-service K-12 NCTA teacher-alumni nationwide. Applicants must have completed at least 20 hours of NCTA programming. This program is full and no longer accepting applications.泭

Mongol

East Asia Under Mongol Dominance: Subjects, Allies & Adversaries. July 19-25, 2026. Six-day summer institute on the CU Boulder campus examining how the Mongols dominance impacted China, Japan, and Korea in different ways in the 13th and 14th centuries. This program is no longer accepting applications.

Fall 2026 - In-person Workshop

More workshops coming soon!

Fall 2026 - Online Courses

More courses coming soon!

Fall 2026 - Webinars

Museum as Crime Scene: Contested Histories, East Asian Art, and Interventions. September 22, 2026, 7pm ET. Join Melanie King for a discussion of objects in museum collections that have been acquired through looting or purchase during times of distress or war. Using sites and objects from East Asia as a case study, we will discuss objects held by museums outside of their original context and trace how they came to reside in a museum. By examining objects with contested histories we will ask questions of these objects and institutions while also generating ideas for interventions for students to engage. Application coming soon.

More webinars coming soon!

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Resources from TEA

TEA's NCTA Video Project. TEA's NCTA "Short Takes" is a collection of 40 video lectures designed for use by classroom teachers as professional background or classroom use. Each video focuses on a timely topic or best practice presented by an NCTA consulting scholar, seminar leader, teacher alum, or author.

  • Take a quick course on a current topic you can integrate into your teaching.
  • Choose a video to show in class.
  • See how NCTA alumni are using new resources successfully.
  • Hear what authors have to say about using their new books in the classroom.

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