K-12 Outreach and Teacher Training
The International Institute is the home base of the University’s oldest continuing precollegiate outreach program.
Launched in the mid-1970s with funds from the U.S. Department of Education, the K-12 outreach enterprise currently consists of 10 professional development and training programs annually, and a host of school site, resource development, overseas studies, and collaborative projects promoted by the International Institute and its National Resources Centers on Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Our mission is to expand and enrich teachers knowledge base and enable them and their students to gain critical academic perspectives and access to educational resources that can enhance instruction, performance, and the pursuit of international careers, including higher education. These objectives relate directly to a priority of meeting the national interest and needs for experts on these vital global regions, and the Institute goals of fostering global citizenship and ties to the UCLA in LA initiative.
2008 Teacher Programs
Coming Soon! Con Mis Manos: A History of Labor in Latin America
K-12 Summer Teacher Training Workshop: July 8th through July 18, 2008
North Africa And Its Neighbors: A Dynamic Global Crossroad
Summer Workshop for Precollegiate Educators. This interdisciplinary seminar, held July 19- July 29, 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, hosted by the UCLA History and Geography Project, is being held in cooperation with the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the Asia Institute, and Anderson School's CIBER program.
Language Intensives in L.A.
The 2008 summer program will feature classes in seventeen languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Chinese, Estonian, Hebrew, Igbo, Iranian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian/Moldavian, Russian, Swahili, Tigrinya, Turkish, Yoruba, Xhosa, and Zulu.
2007 Teacher Programs
- Middle Eastern - European Intersections: Summer Workshop for Teachers, July 21 - August 2, 2007
This interdisciplinary seminar will underscore the historic and symbiotic relationship between the two regions since antiquity and how they have shaped each other's destinies in the spheres of politics, economics, and culture. - Race, Class, Gender and National Policy in Latin America: Summer Teaching Training Workshop, August 4 - August 16, 2007
The objective of this intensive two week workshop is to examine how various national policies in Latin America have dealt with issues of race, class and gender.
