Korean War Legacy Foundation:
Conferences & Events

This interactive webinar will focus on review strategies that teachers can immediately use with their students using short in-class review sessions. There will also be also an interactive student-facing website that contains stimulus-based multiple choice questions and Free Response Questions with immediate feedback for students after completing the tasks. Teachers will share these free open source resources in the webinar and discuss the interactive student website that also contains one page “Student Summary Sheets”.

In this engaging webinar, participants explored the current geopolitical situation in North Korea which continues to capture global headlines. The webinar will share current teaching resources connected to North Korea and offer lines of instructional thinking that can engage students. Featuring a scholar and nationally renowned teacher trainers, the four hour webinar will present ideas and instructional practices that can be applied to your classroom. The resources are easily adapted to students at any grade level and the webinar also will serve as a preview to even more detailed instructional resources focused on North Korea currently being developed by the WHDE.

In this engaging webinar, participants explored the current geopolitical situation in North Korea which continues to capture global headlines. The webinar will share current teaching resources connected to North Korea and offer lines of instructional thinking that can engage students. Featuring a scholar and nationally renowned teacher trainers, the four hour webinar will present ideas and instructional practices that can be applied to your classroom. The resources are easily adapted to students at any grade level and the webinar also will serve as a preview to even more detailed instructional resources focused on North Korea currently being developed by the WHDE.

This two-part webinar focused on reviewing for the spring AP Human Geography exam. In this virtual, interactive session, participants accessed teaching materials that could be implemented immediately to prepare students for the AP Exam. Participants had an opportunity to work with free, open source materials and adapt them to the needs of their students. These sessions included targeted review lessons and instructional strategies for teaching and reviewing analysis of population pyramids, cultural landscapes, and economic development including sectors.

The Korean War Legacy Foundation & World History Digital Education project teams met in Orlando for training, team building, and to plan the work for the next year, The following work groups were represented: AP World History, AP Human Geography, Korean War Fellows, British Fellowship, and Korean War Legacy Ambassadors.

93 educators learned about the AP World History modules and how to incorporate the history of Korean within World History classrooms. Educators heard from honored guests, including Ambassador Hyo-Sung Park (Consul General of Korean Consulate in New York City), Moonkyoo Shin (Minister Counselor of the Republic of Korea, and Kiho Jang (Korea Foundation).

Over 80 educators joined world history methods experts and Asia scholars to learn more about Korea’s rich history. Participants explored best practices in World History pedagogy as well as new teaching modules on Korea that are perfect for the AP World classroom or any world history course. Participants received special consideration for the 2019 Seoul Visit program.