K-12 Outreach Articles

North Africa And Its Neighbors: A Dynamic Global Crossroad

Summer Workshop for Precollegiate Educators. This interdisciplinary seminar, held July 19- July 31, 2008, will underscore the connections between the ongoing, dramatic historical transformations of North Africa from antiquity to the present and the region's interactions with its European, Sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern neighbors.

Summer Workshops 'Open Doors' for Schoolteachers

The International Institute reaches out to K-12 teachers year-round with training and fresh materials for the classroom and brings students to campus for lectures. This summer, more than 50 teachers attended a three-day workshop on China and two-week institutes on race, class, and gender in Latin America and on historical-cultural intersections between Europe and the Middle East.

Arabic, Hebrew Schoolteachers Trade Classroom, Cultural Knowledge at UCLA Language Workshop

For the first time, UCLA hosts a training workshop for teachers from Arabic- and Hebrew-language parochial schools. Iowa State U and LA-based organizers use a Russian class for five-year-olds as a model for teaching exclusively in the target language.

Middle East - United States Intersections: Integrating the Middle East Into American Politics, Society, and Culture

2006 Summer Teacher Training Workshops

Teachers Explore Islam, Asian Literature, at Summer Institutes

35 Los Angeles area school teachers attend two-week in-depth in-service sponsored by five International Institute centers and programs.

Los Angeles County Teachers Explore Islam in the Contemporary World

Workshop sheds light on the diverse forms and meanings of Islam in the daily lives of Muslims.