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This website is the home of my Capstone Project for IREX’s Teachers for Global Classrooms and my blog from my travels with the fellowship. My hope is that this site can provide not only resources for globally minded educators, but also a place to collaborate and initiate interdisciplinary lessons.
Participating in a program like TGC solidified my ideas that the world of education is changing due to the remarkable advances society has made in the realms of technology and communication. Students today will face challenges and choices never before imagined and our role as educators is to prepare them to embrace change and thrive in any situation. To achieve this goal we need to help cultivate a globally competent student and present a globally aware classroom environment. This site provides information, suggestions and resources to help you start creating globally competent lessons and curriculum and to help aid your transition into becoming more globally competent yourself.
Here is the Asia Society's general guideline for global competency; it includes four domains to help guide educators to create global lessons and to informally evaluate student progress. According to the Asia Society, the four global parameters outlined in the graphic below can help people better understand each other and the world around them. The pillars can be used for disciplinary or interdisciplinary study and are spelled out clearly and concisely. I like to use this graphic as an efficient way to judge my lessons.
Participating in a program like TGC solidified my ideas that the world of education is changing due to the remarkable advances society has made in the realms of technology and communication. Students today will face challenges and choices never before imagined and our role as educators is to prepare them to embrace change and thrive in any situation. To achieve this goal we need to help cultivate a globally competent student and present a globally aware classroom environment. This site provides information, suggestions and resources to help you start creating globally competent lessons and curriculum and to help aid your transition into becoming more globally competent yourself.
Here is the Asia Society's general guideline for global competency; it includes four domains to help guide educators to create global lessons and to informally evaluate student progress. According to the Asia Society, the four global parameters outlined in the graphic below can help people better understand each other and the world around them. The pillars can be used for disciplinary or interdisciplinary study and are spelled out clearly and concisely. I like to use this graphic as an efficient way to judge my lessons.