Is your organization interested in collaborating with LACIS? Are you an educator in need of resources related to Latin America, the Caribbean or Iberian Peninsula? Please click here to contact LACIS' Outreach Coordinator, Sarah Ripp, who can assist with these and many other outreach related topics.
Opportunities for Teachers
Links to resources for k-12 Teachers
Opportunities for Teachers
Chile y la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil
June 28-July 30, 2008
Announcement flier (pdf 40k)
Application
Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Santiago, Chile
Summer Study Abroad Program (PENDING FUNDING) in Chile in which Wisconsin K-12 teachers (Spanish and bilingual education) and school librarians, taught by Professor Cecilia Beuchat, will examine the importance of children's literature in examining cultural issues and its pedagogical benefits in language teaching. The dates above are tentative.
Teacher Institute: Human Rights and Historical Memory in Latin America
July 8-11, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
This workshop will examine the legacy of state terrorism in Latin America in the efforts of civil society and governments to come to terms wit the recent violent past. Sessions explore the experience of military dictatorship, attempts to secure justice for the victims of human rights abuses, and the literature, film, are and memorials which seek to commemorate the struggles and atrocities of those years. This program is geared towards seventh through twelfth grade teachers interested in incorporating these topics into their classrooms. Confirmed presenters include: Marjorie Agosin from Wellesley College (literature of human rights), Anne Hamilton from UW-Whitewater (film and the politics of memory), and Chuck Walter from the University of California-Davis (truth commission reports).
Workshop fee of $90 includes continental breakfasts, lunches, and materials. Dorm housing is available ($40/night). 1-3 graduate credits (History) available for additional cost through the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
For more information, contact: Julie Kline (jkline@uwm.edu or 414-229-5986). Applications are due March 17, 2008 and can be obtained by visiting: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/. A collaboration between CLACS, UW-Whitewater, and UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS).
Links to Resources for K-12 teachers
Title IV Centers: This page provides links to Title IV Centers
for all world areas, across the nation. Each center engages in educational outreach. Teachers are
encouraged to explore the resoureces offered by different centers.
UWM Latin American Media Collection The UW Milwaukee Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies maintinas a lending library of videos, DVDs, slides, music, and curriculum materials. You may
request materials online and recieve them via mail.
Latin American themed educational videos may be purchased
online through UW Milwaukee
Outreach World: This website provides a centralized database of curriculum
resources and forum for teaching about international issues in then K-12 classroom
Ideas provides Wisconsin educators with teacher viewd standards-aligned lessons, interactive tools, video and
other resources.
LANIC (U. Texas-Austin)
RETANET (Resources for Teaching about the Americas)
Spanish learning interactive
Fully Funded Trip to Costa Rica
Language Link
The Choices Program: Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University
Reach: places international speakers in schools, campus,
and community organizations
Don Quixote in Wisconsin
WIOC (Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium)
The Wisconsin Idea in Action
