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

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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.