China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response The Choices Program Amy Howland Academy of the Pacific Rim Choices Teaching Fellow Brown University
Jan 24, 2015
China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response
The Choices Program
Amy Howland
Academy of the Pacific RimChoices Teaching Fellow
Brown University
Agenda
• I. The Choices Program
• II. The China Unit and Values Activity
• IV. Role Play & Debrief
• V. Other Resources
• Pictue of catalog here
Choices at a Glance
40 Curriculum Units
Web Resources Support UnitsAlmost 1,000 Scholars Online videosTeaching with the News lessons
Professional DevelopmentWorkshops, Summer Leadership Institute
and Online Learning Module
Current Issues Historical
Meeting Common Core Standards
Unit Structure
Use Scholars Online
&Teaching With the News Too.
China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response
What should U.S. foreign policy be towards China?
Essential Question
Student Text
Teacher Resource Book
Teacher Resource Book
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The History of U.S. China Relations
Looking at China
Art and Politics: Ai Weiwei
Online Lessons
Looking at the Tank Man
Xu Wenli and China Democratic Party
Cross Strait Relations
Chinese or Taiwanese?
U.S. and Chinese Perspectives
Objective: To analyze the current debate on U.S. policy towards China, and evaluate policy options.
Options Groups:• Option 1: Press for Democratic Values• Option 2: Promote Stability and Trade• Option 3: Contain China• Option 4: Keep our Distance
Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate
Options Role Play Activity
How Does the Options Role Play Work?
• 3 – 5 minute options presentations
• Senate questions
Deliberative Dialogue: An informed discussion
Concluding Activity
Creating Your Option 5
• Students create and express their own policy.
• Share, critique and question classmates’ policies.
• Which issues might dominate a summit meeting in 20 years?
But wait, there’s more!
1. Scholars Online2. Supplemental Materials
Bring Scholars to Your Classroom
Use to: • Introduce the unit• Expand, deepen or
reinforce concepts• Advanced assignments• Your own professional
development
Organized by Student Readings, Lessons and Scholar
Supplemental Page for Each Unit
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Additional Materials:
Two online lessons
Power point
Ai Weiwei video
Additional documents
Web links
Bibliography
What is a Value?
http://www.choices.edu/resources/values.php
Prioritizing Values Exercise
Prioritizing values differently leads to different policies.
Brainstorming:
Draw your hand.
On each finger write down the top 5 issues or values that you believe U.S. foreign policy should reflect in regards to ___________.
Consider all your responses, then choose the one you think is most important and copy it on your palm.
When formulating U.S. Foreign Policy on ________, what values should the U.S. Senate take into consideration?
Objective: To analyze the current debate on U.S. policy towards China, and evaluate policy options.
Options Groups:• Option 1: Press for Democratic Values• Option 2: Promote Stability and Trade• Option 3: Contain China• Option 4: Keep our Distance
Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate
Your Turn for the Options Role Play!
Preparation: Options Groups
Option Groups: Prepare a persuasive, 2 minute presentation to convince the committee that your option is the best one to pursue. You may wish to keep in mind the following:
How important are U.S. - China relations compared to other problems facing the United States?
What values underlie your option, and how do these values impact your policies?
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Can we really ignore an economy
as large and as closely linked to the
U.S. as China’s?
Won’t pushing for human rights in China
spark an anti-American backlash?
Develop and ask pointed, clarifying questions.
Omit Parts of the Role Play Materials
• Values and Beliefs• Action Steps • Pro and Con
Arguments• Scholars Online• Excerpts from
Historical Records
Teaching Tools on our Teachers Cornerwww.choices.edu/resources/tools.php
• Options Role Play video• Tips for Role Plays video• Guidelines for Deliberation document• Deliberating Pros and Cons of Policy Options document
• And more….
NCTAsia.org• Face-to-face and online seminars, stipends, study tours to
East Asia • www.nctasia.org
Other Places to Go and Things to Do• Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Smith College
• Free e-newlsetter, local NCTA contact
www.fivecolleges.edu/fcceas
• Bryant College China Institute
www.china.bryant.edu
• SPICE catalog
www.spice.stanford.edu/catalog
Other Resources• Asia for Educators, Columbia University
afe.easia.columbia.eduGreat web resources and online professional development
• Education about Asia Magazine, AAS
www.asian-studies.org/eaa
40 back issues are archived on the web for free!
Current subscriptions - $30 for 3 issues/year
The Choices Approach
• Student-Centered
• Incorporates latest Scholarship
• Multiple Perspectives
• Meets Common Core
• Historical Thinking Skills and Civic Literacy
Going DigitaliTextbooks allow students to:• Swipe through photo
collections• Watch videos• Highlight text• Take notes• Search for content• Look up key terms www.choices.edu/iTextbooks
Institutes…. Spread the word
Each Summer By April 8
Thank You!
• Preview a copy of any unit(s)…. Just ask!
• Picture of catalog here.