TIBET CURRICULUM and RESOURCES
Tibet Education Network (TEN) has built a vast, comprehensive collection of curricular, reference, and resource
materials for elementary and secondary study of Tibet—the largest library focused on K-12
education in North America. TEN has also produced and published a number of handbooks (listed below), starter libraries, lessons, and other curricular support material
for use in K-12 education.
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Curricular Ideas for K-12 Educators
The 14th Dalai Lama
The Panchen Lama
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SUGGESTED SOURCE MATERIALS
Grades K-4
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
Tibet by Topic
Videography
Periodicals & Discography
Suggested Resources for Educators
Tibet Related Websites
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TEACHING TOOLS
Why Teach and Learn about Tibet?
Timeline of Tibetan History
Where is Tibet?
Questions for the Study of Tibet
Glossary of Political Terms
Words for Reflection
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Global Source Catalog
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In Fall 2006, Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama, visited the University of Buffalo (NY). The school’s education department
contacted Global Source to reprint some materials from the course handbook we developed for our 2001 National Summer Institute on “Tibet in
K-12 Education: Landscapes and Lessons of Cultural Survival.” They connected our curricular frameworks to NY State Standards and posted
the curricular materials on-line at NYLearns.org.
(Make sure to search their site using key words: "Tibet", "Dalai Lama" or "Global Source".)
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• Course Handbooks for TEN's Summer Teacher Institutes on
the Study of Tibet in K-12 Education. Edited By Jon Garfunkel and Tibet Education Network. These
course handbooks have contained over 300 pages of material,
including curricular frameworks, suggested sources, age appropriate
readings, lessons, maps, and other support materials for developing
a unit of study on Tibet. This is TEN's most advanced curricular
resource, and has been called "...the best resource for teaching about Tibet in existence!"
• Approaching Tibetan Studies: A Resource Handbook
for Educators. Edited by Jon Garfunkel &
Tibet Education Network, 1998, 2001. Sixty pages of curricular
and resource materials produced to support K-12 educators.
Included in the Handbook: why teach & learn about Tibet, curricular
ideas for Tibetan studies, essential questions, maps, facts,
historical timeline, suggested bibliographies, videography,
resource information, on-line resources, and ideas for broadening
one's Tibetan experience.
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Presenting Tibet: A Slide Package for Educators. By Jon
Garfunkel & Tibet Education Network, 1996, 2000. Fifty
slide images covering Tibet and the Tibetan Diaspora, with
over 150 pages of annotated descriptions, curricular ideas,
supporting materials, lessons, readings, and suggestions for
further study. This is the only multimedia educational introduction
to Tibet of its kind. Appropriate for all ages and interdisciplinary
study.
• Faces
Magazine October 1999 Special issue on Tibet. TEN Director,
Jon Garfunkel, served as consulting editor and authored "The
World's Youngest Political Prisoner", an article on the
11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, commissioned by Faces."The
World's Youngest Political Prisoner" is also featured
in TEN course handbooks.
