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Use the resources below to learn more about why adding global competence into your lessons is so important and examples of how you can start to teach more globally.
Use the resources below to learn more about why adding global competence into your lessons is so important and examples of how you can start to teach more globally.
teaching-for-global-competence-in-a-rapidly-changing-world-edu.pdfTeaching for Global Competency
Teaching for Global Competency
Click HERE to access the Asia Society's Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World. This text helps define global competence, describes how to assess students' global competence, and gives subject specific examples and ideas for increasing global competence activities in your classroom.
book-globalcompetence.pdfEducating for Global Competence
Educating for Global Competence
Click HERE to view Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World, another publication by the Asia Society that can help teachers and administrators learn how to help our students become globally competent citizens of the world.
The following are digital resources and tools you can use in your classroom to incorporate global learning.
The following are digital resources and tools you can use in your classroom to incorporate global learning.
Padlet
Padlet
Click HERE to get started with Padlet. Think of Padlet like an online poster board. Students can post text, photos, and videos on a teacher-created Padlet and can respond to each other's posts. Teachers are able to change settings to moderate and approve posts before they appear on the Padlet. It's a wonderful way to connect students across schools, states, and countries!
Google Earth voyager
Google Earth voyager
Click HERE to access Google Earth Voyager. You can have your students travel around the globe on a Voyage created by Google or you can create your own Voyage by creating a new file and adding placemarks where you want your students to visits. Help your students see the places they are learning about from satellite and aerial images to street views.
Book Creator
Book Creator
Click HERE to create a digital book that your entire class can collaborate on. Students can use this digital tool to create their own book to share about their class, school, or topic of their choosing. Then their books can be shared with others. It is also a way students across the globe could share writings, photos, and knowledge.
Organizations that help promote global education and provide resources and global learning opportunities for teachers.
Organizations that help promote global education and provide resources and global learning opportunities for teachers.
explorer classroom
explorer classroom
Click HERE to see a list of upcoming Explorer Classroom opportunities. Explorer Classroom allows you to connect your classroom with a National Geographic Explorer in the field for a virtual presentation and Q&A session. Materials are provided prior to the virtual chat to teach your students more about the Explorer's area of study.
oxfam global guides
oxfam global guides
Click HERE to access Oxfam's Global Guides. These guides provide strategies and tools for redesigning your classroom to help your students become global citizens.
Primary source
Primary source
Click HERE to access Primary Source's site for preparing students for global citizenship. This site is a repository of books, websites, videos, and more that promote global learning. They even list service-based travel opportunities for teacher and students.
These resources are available to help teachers assess how globally connected their classroom and school are.
These resources are available to help teachers assess how globally connected their classroom and school are.
Teaching Continuum.pdfGlobally competent teaching continuum
Globally competent teaching continuum
Click HERE to access the Globally Competent Teaching Continuum PDF file. You can use this rubric to assess where you are as a teacher when it comes to the 12 global competence elements.
PS_Elements_of_a_Global_School.pdfElements of a global school
Elements of a global school
Click HERE to view Primary Source's Elements of a Global School PDF file. You can use this resource to see examples of exemplary practice in the four domains of action for global schools.
Framework-for-Cultural-and-Global-Competency-January-2017-final.pptFramework for global competency
Framework for global competency
Click HERE to access a Framework for Developing Cultural and Global Competencies across grade levels.
Disclaimer: The author of this website is a participant in the 2024-2025 Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) with funding provided by the U.S. Government and administered by IREX. The views and information presented are the grantee's own and do not represent the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Program, or IREX.
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