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• ISTEP
Instructional Resource Center
• Publications
The
ISTEP Instructional Resource Center
The ISTEP
Instructional Resource Center, located at San Diego State University,
contains over 1200 print and audio-visual materials for teaching about
Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, international
issues, and global and multicultural education.
Materials
are available for 30-day loan to all educators and student-teachers
in San Diego County. To visit the Resource Center or inquire about specific
items, please call (619) 594-1105. Before visiting us, please call for an appointment. We can also arrange to ship items to you if you are unable to visit the SDSU campus.
Publications
While ISTEP’s
primary focus is on professional development for teachers, on occasion
we publish materials that grow out of collaborative projects between
subject area experts and classroom teachers. The following ISTEP publications
are currently available for FREE DOWNLOAD in PDF format on this web site.
War, Peace and Religion in the History Classroom
Curriculum unit developed by participants in a 2008-09 year-long seminar co-sponsored by ISTEP, the Department of Religious Studies and the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies at SDSU, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Open War and Peace Unit
Additional Resources: Websites for Teaching about War & Peace
Open War Bibliography (.pdf)
Annotated
Bibliography of Supplementary Instructional Materials for Teaching
Open Bibliography - Latin America (.pdf)
Developed
by ISTEP and the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego
State University, this first edition contains annotated entries
of over 200 print and audiovisual resources dealing with South
America for instructional use at the K-12 level. Each annotation
contains price and ordering information current at the time of
publication. Designed to be comprehensive, not evaluative, materials
have not been reviewed for quality and are not necessarily endorsed
by ISTEP.
Nationalism:
The Issue that Won't Go Away - Activities for Integrating an Understanding
of Nationalism into Modern World History at the Secondary Level
Open Nationalism Unit (.pdf)
An 82-page curriculum unit, collaboratively developed
and field tested by university faculty and secondary school classroom
practitioners, this unit takes students beyond the superficial
to a deeper understanding of the concept of nationalism and how
it operates in their own lives and in the lives of others. You may down load the entire publication
by selecting each section below or down load and use sections individually.
Key
Understandings and Instructional Guidelines for Teaching About Mexico
Open Mexico (.pdf)
Developed by a bilateral (Mexico-U.S.) Task Force, this
12-page booklet describes the essential elements of a quality
Mexico-related curriculum at the elementary and secondary levels.
Outlining a set of higher-level generalizations that students
should develop as a result of instruction, key understanding offers
specific recommendations and guiding questions regarding content,
focus and tone that educators can utilize in evaluating and designing
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