In this interactive webinar, we will explore the current geopolitical situation in North Korea which continues to capture global headlines. The webinar will share current teaching resources connected to North Korea and offer lines of instructional thinking that can engage students. Featuring a scholar and nationally renowned teacher trainers, the four hour webinar will present ideas and instructional practices that can be applied to your classroom. The resources are easily adapted to students at any grade level and the webinar also will serve as a preview to even more detailed instructional resources focused on North Korea currently being developed by the WHDEF.
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
10:00AM- 2:00PM EST
Fee $25
All participants will receive a $150 stipend.
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10:00am – 2:00pm EDT
Welcome
Overview of Resources
World History Digital Education Introduction
Joe Karb
Dr. Han
Greg Ahlquist
North Korea Scholar
- 45 minutes presentation
- 30 minutes moderated questions
Dr. James Person
Drew Beiter
BREAK
Set Up // Introduction
Greg Ahlquist
2 BREAKOUTS of 25 minutes each = 50 minutes total
- Share the Sources
- Time to read and think of activity using sources
- Use the Chat to share
- Show our strategy
25 minutes TOTAL for each Breakout
Tom Sakole
Gabe Fain
Jeremiah Rush
Allison Cecil
Drew Beiter
BREAK
2 BREAKOUTS of 25 minutes each = 50 minutes total
- Share the Sources
- Time to read and think of activity using sources
- Use the Chat to share
- Show our strategy
25 minutes TOTAL for each Breakout
Tom Sakole
Gabe Fain
Jeremiah Rush
Allison Cecil
Drew Beiter
Wrap up Logistics / Website / preview of NK book / gratitude
Joe Karb
Greg Ahlquist
Webinar Featured Scholar
James F. Person is one of the leading experts on the inner workings of the elusive North Korean regime and political dynamics on the peninsula. As a historian of modern Korea and the Cold War in East Asia, his work challenges many of the ‘sticky narratives’ that shape our historical and contemporary views on North and South Korea, particularly on the political and diplomatic behavior of North Korea and the origins of authoritarianism in the DPRK. He aligns his research with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he heads the Korea Studies Program and directs the Korea Data and History Initiative. The founding Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Korea Center and also founding Coordinator of the Wilson Centers’ groundbreaking North Korea International Documentation Project, he has visited North Korea twice. Between 2013 and early 2017, he was Deputy Director of the History and Public Policy Program. Person holds a Ph.D in modern Korean history (2013) from the George Washington University. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, daughter, and Yorkie.
North Korea Project Writing Team
Gregory Ahlquist is a High School Social Studies teacher in Webster, New York where he was named the 2013 New York State Teacher of the Year. In addition to speaking and leading professional development, he has served as Co-Chair of the AP Test Development Committee and led several instructional design projects for organizations such as the New York State Education Department, Advanced Placement, and the World History Digital Education Foundation.
Andrew Beiter is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Academy for Human Rights and an 8th grade Social Studies teacher at Springville Middle School. He is a Regional Education Coordinator for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Teacher Fellow for the Lowell Milken Center, and a consultant for the Robert F. Kennedy Center’s Speak Truth to Power program. He also co-founded the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights, an organization designed to provide human rights professional development training.
Allison Cecil is a National Board Certified Teacher and an Advanced Placement Human Geography teacher at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, KY. Outside the classroom, her AP Human Geography experience includes moderating the AP Human Geography Community site, serving on the College Board AP Human Geography Instructional Design Team, formerly serving as a member of the AP Test Development Committee, and taking on various leadership roles at the AP Reading.
Gabe Fain teaches GT Humanities, a two-year English I and AP World History course, at Heritage High School in Frisco, Texas, where he has served as the Social Studies Department Chair and Instructional Coach. He has served on the senior leadership team for the AP World History Examination Reading and provides curriculum support for the College Board.
Thomas J. Sakole is an AP Human Geography, AP World History, and AP Seminar instructor at Riverside High School in Landsdowne, Virginia. In addition, he is a co-author and contributor to the AMSCO AP World History textbook and has served as an Exam Leader at the AP World History grading for the past four years. Thomas was a 2003 Fulbright-Hayes scholarship winner, acted as the Advanced Academics Subject Matter Specialist for AP World History for Fairfax County Public Schools, and has presented his research and teaching techniques at multiple conferences.
Generously supported by the Korea Foundation.