The NRC works actively with campus faculty, students and the broader educational community to provide area studies resources for use in school curricula.
ORIAS
IES funds the work of ORIAS (Office of Resources for International and Area Studies) together with the other NRCs on the UC Berkeley campus. Its mission is to develop and strengthen ties between IES, other Berkeley NRCs and K-14 schools and educators. Through its website, newsletter, summer institutes and workshops, ORIAS disseminates information about events and resources on international topics to California K-14 teachers. Among the resources available from ORIAS are curriculum materials, web resource lists, guest speakers and electronic mentors.
ORIAS Summer Seminar for Community College Instructors
The NRCs at UC Berkeley have partnered to launch an annual summer workshop designed to assist educators in the California community college system teach to UC Berkeley standards and prepare their students for transfer to a four-year university. Currently only a handful of community colleges offer world history survey credits articulating to UC Berkeley. This gap in the college pipeline reflects shifts in the rapidly growing field of world history - away from a collection of regional histories and towards the study of global processes - and the need for greater communication among faculty in the field. The ORIAS summer seminars will focus on working with college faculty interested in redesigning their world history courses to articulate to UCB’s world history curricula.
The first workshop, titled Teaching World History at the College Level: From Regional to Global Studies, was held in June 2011. Instructor responses prompted the NRCs to add a follow-up working group mid-year that will assist instructors to create actual syllabi frameworks for world history instruction. This year's meeting will take place on December 2nd, 2011.
ORIAS Annual Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers
Past summer institutes:
ORIAS Teacher Workshops
2011-12
Notre Dame: The Soul of Medieval Paris
2010-11
CURRICULAR RESOURCES FOR K-14 EDUCATORS
Each year the NRC adapts proceedings from one of its yearly conferences into curricular resource materials that K-14 educators may incorporate into history, world cultures and social sciences curricula. The resources are placed online at ORIAS, and also stored in World Savvy’s library (see below). This year’s project draws upon the proceedings of a conference addressing the Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Europe and the US, sponsored by IES, the EU Center and the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. In addition, Title VI funding supported the creation of a lesson plan on Ancient Greece developed and presented by 6th-grade teacher Alison Waterman at the 2011 History and Social Science Project summer teacher institute on Ancient Civilizations.
2011 curricular projects
Past curricular projects
COLLABORATION WITH EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
World Savvy (WS) is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco and New York, which recognizes that mainstream education has not adapted to the realities presented by an increasingly globalized world. It offers a range of services designed to assist teachers integrate global issues into existing curriculum. In AY 2009-10 WS reported that NRC funding enabled it to reach more than 1,100 teachers nationwide and provide in-depth assistance on integrating contemporary European issues into curriculum. In 2010-11 WS used NRC support to enhance its resources library with ES materials and create professional development workshops for teachers.
Humanities West (HW) is a San Francisco-based organization serving both the general public and educators with thematic events combining expert lectures on history, art, and literature, as well as musical performance and panel discussions. Each year the NRC sends teachers to HW events and funds an ORIAS pedagogical workshop held on-site on the second day (see teacher workshops above).
Berkeley Social Science and History Project (SSHP) is an outreach program for high school educators housed within the Department of History. It provides regional educators with professional development and improved content knowledge aligned to the California History-Social Science Framework and Content Standards. IES funds support stipends for teacher facilitators, and the development of outreach materials on topics with European content. One of the program’s main components is a 5-day summer institute, which provides educators with 44 professional development hours. Teaching teams from low-performing schools have received special encouragement to attend this program. Over the last five years, approximately 11,000 students each year have been taught by teachers attending the summer institute. Participants have reported increased content knowledge, historical understanding, and improved ability to implement academic literacy strategies.
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES TEACHER WORKSHOP
Click here for the PSP page
