K-12 Outreach and Teacher Training
The International Institute is the home base of the UCLA's oldest continuously operated precollegiate outreach program.
Launched in the mid-1970s with funds from the U.S. Department of Education, the K-12 outreach enterprise at the UCLA International Institute now consists of 10 professional development and training programs annually, along with projects at school sites, resource development, and other collaborative efforts promoted by the Institute and its National Resources Centers on Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Our mission is to expand the knowledge base of teachers and to provide them and their students with critical access to academic perspectives and educational resources in international studies. These objectives relate directly to a priority of meeting the national need for experts on vital global regions, and to the Institute's goal of fostering global citizenship.
2008 Teacher Programs
Con Mis Manos: A History of Labor in Latin America
K-12 Summer Teacher Training Workshop: July 8th through July 18, 2008: 4 LAUSD multicultural general salary credits or 4 University Extension quarter-units available.
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.
2008 Summer Institute for World History Teachers - Monks, Merchants and Millworkers: Connecting Europe and Asia
July 28th - August 8th. This two-week institute for 6th, 7th, and 10th grade World History teachers will explore the connections between Europe and Asia and look at economic issues in the World History curriculum.
Language Intensives in L.A.
The 2008 summer program featured classes in fourteen languages: Arabic, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Chinese, Estonian, Hebrew, Igbo, Iranian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian/Moldavian, Russian, Swahili, Tigrinya, and Turkish.
