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 EDUCATION
 In-Service Seminars  |   ITEF  |   Trade Curriculum

International Trade Education Foundation

WCIT educates the next generation through in-service workshops for teachers, an innovative trade and economics curriculum package for the classroom, presentations at schools and by serving as an ongoing resource for educators.

The Council's educational activities are carried out under the auspices of our non-profit educational group The International Trade Education Foundation (ITEF).  ITEF's mandate is to support schools and educators in their efforts to provide information on the importance of trade in our lives and to the State of Washington.  

One of the Council’s earliest activities was to establish the "Summer Seminar;" a two-week intensive teacher training program on the fundamentals of economic theory and international trade. As a pyramid of outreach, the summer sessions have been amazingly effective.  A group of 25 teachers reaches thousands of students each year.  Over the years, more than 400 teachers have taken the summer course.  In recent years, to augment the outreach potential of the Seminar, ITEF included two state legislators in each session.

With the increasing impacts of globalization and the heightened need for information on international trade, the Council and ITEF have begun the process of expanding the educational role of ITEF.  

As of 2001, ITEF will replace its  summer seminar with a series of in-service seminars around the state.  The seminars will be on topics of interest to teachers in a given regional area and based on geography within the state,  current topics on the national agenda such as GMO's and food safety, and ongoing issues concerning trade and poverty alleviation, the environment, technology, and so on.  As the schedules develop we will post them on the "In-Service Seminars" page.

"A New Trade Curriculum"
Additionally, in 2001 ITEF will make available to teachers around the state an exciting new trade curriculum.  The New Trade Curriculum project will feature two videos on trade, a CD-ROM, web-based resources, support materials and curricula. For order information and details about the project, visit us at www.tradeis.com.

  Click here to download a 253k PDF of the flyer, "A New Trade Curriculum."