Teacher Training: Spring 2008
African Storytelling:
Giving Voice to the Performers and Their Texts
This two-day workshop co-organized by Peter Quella and Toni Pressley-Sanon will help teachers learn more about and prepare to teach an important subject that is often overlooked—oral traditions. Sometimes misconstrued or discounted as static folklore and therefore peripheral, this workshop will present the topic as a continuing and dynamic engagement with culture and memory significant to all societies. This workshop will focus on southern Africa and the research of Professor Harold Scheub, one of the world’s leading scholars on the African folktale. The goal of the workshop is to develop teaching units to enhance the current multicultural curriculum in Wisconsin.
Please see the flyer about the storyteller workshop.
Click here for the Lesson Plan Template
For more information and to register please contact Toni Pressley-Sanon, Outreach Coordinator at toni.sanon@gmail.com
Youth and Development in Rwanda
Educational Travel Opportunity for Social Science Teachers
Summer 2008
Click here for the brochure.
Click for the application as a PDF or as an MSWord document.
Introduction
In an effort to assist educators and communities interested in extending knowledge about Africa throughout Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, The African Studies Program offers a range of outreach services.
Outreach Calendar
Calendar of Outreach Events
Curriculum Specialists for Schools
The Program's Outreach staff have broad backgrounds in African Studies and specialize on Africa in the curricula of kindergarten through college. The Outreach staff consults with teachers, organizes teachers' workshops, evaluates materials, and provides resources for teaching about Africa. Visits to schools and classrooms throughout Wisconsin, and in some cases other states in the Upper Midwest, can be arranged. For further information, write: Outreach, African Studies Program, 204 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53711 or call 608.265.9151 or email, Toni Pressley-Sanon at outreach@africa.wisc.edu.
Resource Collection
This small library includes collections of books for teaching at all levels, and other reference works such as maps, video tapes and art objects. Use of the collection should be scheduled through the Outreach staff, who will assist users of the collection.
Conferences/Workshops for Educators
The African Studies Outreach staff tries to coordinate at least one teachers' workshop or conference each semester. Past workshops have focused on teaching Africa through literature, environmental sciences, social studies, language and visual arts. If you would like to receive advance information about these programs, please send your name and mailing address to the African Studies Program through US mail or email: outreach@africa.wisc.edu. You can also learn of upcoming workshops and similar programs by visiting the Outreach Events Calendar. The Outreach staff also delivers presentations at Wisconsin teachers' meetings and consults with teachers at professional meetings.
- For information about the Department of Public Instruction/International Education, please visit their website at http://dpi.state.wi.us/cal/interntled.html.
Audiovisual Materials
Films from and about Africa for use in schools and colleges are available for viewing. The ASP's video catalog is available by clicking here [this is a pdf file]. The African Studies Program assists in the selection of films for purchase, reviews new films, and produces listings of films of high quality for use in the school and college curriculum.
An extensive collection of over 7,000 35mm color slides catalogued by country and subject area, is maintained at the African Studies Program office to assist teaching about Africa at both university and K-12 levels. Most are available on AfricaFocus.
Speakers Bureau
The Program encourages its faculty and students to make themselves available for speaking engagements on African topics. Individual Africanists are available for consultation on programs, curricula, or issues concerning Africa. The Outreach office seeks to identify experts on the topic at hand and to place the inquirer in touch with the relevant individuals. The office also arranges school presentations by African graduate students during the academic year.
