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Area Studies Centers Summer Global Teacher Seminars

Overview

The Summer Global Teacher Seminars are week-long seminars that aim to inform teachers about global issues and provide pedagogical training to help teachers incorporate new content into their curricula. Seminar themes are selected to align with Ohio education content standards. Seminars deepen teachers’ understanding of an issue by going through detailed case studies from around the world, specifically Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Please visit the Global Teacher Seminars website for more information on seminars, and to find resource guides and lesson plans that have been created for them.

Benefits

Participating teachers receive:

  • Continuing Education Units (typically at least two)
  • Participation stipend
  • Resource guides
  • Curriculum materials
  • Pedagogical support

2025 Global Teacher Seminar: Human Experiences: Accounts from Across the Globe

Applications for the 2025 seminar have now closed. 

The Ohio State University is now accepting applications for the online Global Teacher Seminar "Human experiences: accounts from across the Globe" from teachers in any state. Pre-service teachers are strongly encouraged to apply. This online summer seminar for K-14 educators will deepen into exploring the United Nation’s Sustainability Goals, and their relevance in regards to the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The seminar will explore human accounts on cross-cutting topics that will address one or multiple Sustainable Development Goals from a global perspective. Throughout the seminar, participants will hear from guest experts who will present regional case studies to provide comparative views from different latitudes and invite reflection on how those matters can be related to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Seminar Schedule

This 20-hour seminar includes the following sessions, which will take place over Zoom (all sessions online, EST):

  • Orientation: Tuesday, May 13, 2025: 7-9 pm EST (2 hours)
  • Summer Sessions: Monday – Friday, June 09-13, 2025, 09:00 am – 12:00 pm EST (15 hours)
  • Follow-Up Session: Fall 2025 (3 hours)

Lead Facilitators 

  • Lead Instructor: Dr. Risa Whitson (Ohio U.)
  • Pedagogy Instructor: Dr. Daniel Redman (Ohio State U.)

Regional Experts

  • June 9, 2025: Regional topic session on Latin America by Dr. Risa Whitson (Ohio U.)
  • June 10, 2025: Regional topic session on Eastern Europe/Eurasia by Dr. Andrea Lanoux (Connecticut College)
  • June 11, 2025: Regional topic session on East Asia, speaker TBA
  • June 12, 2025: TBA
  • June 13, 2025: TBA

Benefits

Teachers will receive a certificate of completion with 20 contact hours and 2 CEUs after completing all aspects (orientation, summer seminar and follow up), receive curriculum resources, and a $100 stipend for completing a lesson plan by August 9. The seminar is open to teachers, including pre-service teachers, and administrators and is free of charge. 

The seminar is organized by the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES), in partnership with the Center for African Studies (CAS), Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), East Asian Studies Center Center (EASC), and the Middle East Studies Center (MESC), with support from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grants.

Past Seminars

  • 2024, People: Global Efforts to Alleviate Food Insecurity and Poverty
  • 2023, Global Goal Prosperity: Global Movement of Goods and People
  • 2022, Global Competency and the UN's Global Goals
  • 2021, Global Protests and Social Justice Activism
  • 2020, Where Does Our Food Come from? Global Agriculture and Economic Sustainability
  • 2019, Global Environmental Issues: The Problems, Solutions, and Potential Outcomes
  • 2017, Human Rights in Global Perspective, Mass Atrocities and State-Sponsored Violence
  • 2016, Water Security for the 21st Century

Please contact Alicia Baca, the CSEEES outreach coordinator, at baca.31@osu.edu or call (614)292-8770 for more information.