Past Awards

Asia for Educators will create a series of recorded presentations and related professional development resources to expose secondary and non-specialist undergraduate-level teachers and their students to the Ming dynasty, and to introduce them to the narrative classics of Chinese literature. These presentations, given by experts in the field, will include background information on the period in which the work was written, a short biography of the author, and suggested excerpts to read in class.

The National Humanities Center will create five self-paced, asynchronous professional development modules that integrate current scholarship, model source analysis, and support curriculum development for teaching about the Ming dynasty. Organized as volumes in the Humanities in Class TeacherNotes collection, this project will allow pre-collegiate and non-expert collegiate level educators to acquire in-depth subject knowledge. Teachers who complete the modules earn professional credits, and may create and publish classroom-ready instructional resources that will be made openly available for other educators to use.