What is global education?
Global education isn’t something to add to the list of things we are teaching our kids. It is a set of skills and a perspective used to learn and understand the content our students are already learning. Through interdisciplinary teaching, global education requires that students learn content through applying the standards to communicate with others to seek out information, demonstrate a sense of empathy to understand perspective, be aware of their own identity to recognize their own perspective, and develop a sense of responsibility to contribute to the world community through collaboration with classmates and with the citizens of the world.
Our schools have the opportunity to teach CCSS while providing our students a global perspective that will promote inquiry based learning and utilize 21st Century Skills.
To learn more about global competencies visit the Asia Society’s Center for Global Education website.
Connecting Global Education to Our School Community
Integrating global education within our community allows students to understand and interact with content in entirely new ways. The Michigan Core Curriculum Content Standards, The Common Core Standards, and the National Core Arts Standards can be taught using the global competencies. Furthermore, Project Based Learning units can have a globalized perspective added that will take projects and student work to the next level.
Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math are already globalized disciplines, and with careful planning we can open up real world opportunities for our students to engage with these subjects in meaningful ways.
This website is designed to be a guide that, in addition to other features, offers sample units and lesson plans that can be implemented at schools across curricular levels. This is a work in progress and I am excited to work with teachers at each grade level to help them experiment with global ed and begin to think about ways to globalize project-based learning or other units. This guide will also provide resources for teachers to explore (both online and locally) to help with this work.
Website Overview:
This guide serves as a jumping off point for teachers interested in implementing Global Education into their classrooms and curricula. This guide was made not only to assist in implementing Global Education in my school in Baldwin, but can be utilized as a resource by any educators with a willingness and desire to create global citizens.
Below is an overview of the contents of this guide:
Study:
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State blog. The views and information presented are the grantee’s own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.
Our schools have the opportunity to teach CCSS while providing our students a global perspective that will promote inquiry based learning and utilize 21st Century Skills.
To learn more about global competencies visit the Asia Society’s Center for Global Education website.
Connecting Global Education to Our School Community
Integrating global education within our community allows students to understand and interact with content in entirely new ways. The Michigan Core Curriculum Content Standards, The Common Core Standards, and the National Core Arts Standards can be taught using the global competencies. Furthermore, Project Based Learning units can have a globalized perspective added that will take projects and student work to the next level.
Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math are already globalized disciplines, and with careful planning we can open up real world opportunities for our students to engage with these subjects in meaningful ways.
This website is designed to be a guide that, in addition to other features, offers sample units and lesson plans that can be implemented at schools across curricular levels. This is a work in progress and I am excited to work with teachers at each grade level to help them experiment with global ed and begin to think about ways to globalize project-based learning or other units. This guide will also provide resources for teachers to explore (both online and locally) to help with this work.
Website Overview:
This guide serves as a jumping off point for teachers interested in implementing Global Education into their classrooms and curricula. This guide was made not only to assist in implementing Global Education in my school in Baldwin, but can be utilized as a resource by any educators with a willingness and desire to create global citizens.
Below is an overview of the contents of this guide:
Study:
- Find online tools and utilize the technology available at your school to teach globally.
- Browse recommended resources to help assess global education
- Explore resources that might enhance a globalized curriculum.
- Ideas for globalizing our standards: Sample lesson plans and unit.
- Inspiration and reflection on the importance of global education from abroad.
- Resources and opportunities for teacher travel and study.
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State blog. The views and information presented are the grantee’s own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.