Thanks to Melissa Gasparotto, Rutgers University Librarian, for her 2014 compilation of Rutgers University Libraries resources for teachers, available online at http://libguides.rutgers.edu/TeachEurope

Free Continuing Education Opportunity for Teachers of History, Languages, and Social Studies

Teach Europe is an annual workshop for teachers hosted by the Center for European Studies at Rutgers University generally held in the fall.  The program is designed to provide teachers of European languages and literatures, social studies, and history with new curricular ideas or approaches and up-to-date information on European developments. The talks and workshops are supported by the Center for European Studies in conjunction with the Rutgers World Languages institute and a number of European consulates and language studies associations.

There is no fee to attend,  but please note that registration is required.  Watch for registration announcements distributed via teachers' language and social studies listservs, and the Center's and Language Institute's own teacher mailing lists.  To be added to the mailing list, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

2019 Teach Europe Workshop information

The Center for European Studies has carried out an increasing number of K-12 educational activities in the past few years.  “Teach Europe ,” a program aimed at high school teachers of languages, social studies, and art, has been hosted by the Center since 2004.  Together with the Rutgers University Language Institute, the Center organizes a daylong conference with 3 or 4 breakout sessions on different themes plus a panel or keynote speaker.  The teachers earn continuing education credits.  Attendance has ranged from 45-60.  The programs are organized in conjunction with several European consulates, who also provide financial support.  Similar programs are held at Columbia and Yale.

The Center also has begun to offer “A Day of European Culture,” a program organized for second graders each year from several local New Jersey schools.  The children come to the Center accompanied by their teachers and chaperones; they play games, color maps, sing songs in several European languages, watch brief animated features, and enjoy pizza at the end.   Since the program began, over 200 students from 7 schools have visited the Center.

In 2007-08 the Center took “The European Village” as a theme for its activities.  Undergraduate honors students visited a number of European villages and shot films and interviewed inhabitants.  This footage was later edited into a series of short films on the individual villages.  The Center then organized a lecture/lunch series focused on several of the villages.  Some of these sessions attracted high school classes and teachers.

The Center is also building  K-12 outreach components into its external grant funding.  Ro example, a Department of State-funded program of academic exchanges between Rutgers and Kazan State University in Kazan, Russia, featured workshops aimed at high school social studies teachers interested in Russia, offering them continuing education credits.