This objective of this portion of the website is to serve as a useful resource for educators to globalize and transform their lesson plans. A primary goal of a globalized classroom is to prepare students for a 21st century work force and the new career and communication demands of their generation. Students need authentic learning opportunities to become globally competent individuals, and chances to use and evaluate the digital and print resources available to them. A globally competent student investigates their world, recognizes multiple perspectives, communicates their views effectively, and takes action to make significant changes in response to the world's problems. This website is intended to provide you as an educator with the understanding, materials, and resources needed to present these opportunities to your students!

Global Education is a lens through which we teach 21st Century skills of investigation, perspective, communication and action. Students in every discipline are prepared to meet global challenges and live in a diverse world. 
National Education Association
Policy Brief:
Global Competence Is a 21st Century Imperative

Investigate Their World

Not just search for "the answer", but explore all possible questions and complexities in the problem, finding potential solutions within a framework of inquiry.

Communicate ideas

Be able to hear and understand different perspectives based on, among other things,  the personal, historical, cultural, political, gender, age, religious based points of view and be able to synthesis those differences into their own perspective on the world and its challenges.

Take
​Action

Using all available technologies across space, time and cultures students share Ideas and collaborate with others. Students must be literate, ideally in more that one language, tech savvy and culturally competent to share their ideas with people who have different worldviews than their own. ​

Recognize Perspectives

Developing plans, alone or collaboratively, at both the local and global level, students move from the theoretical to the practical and put ideas and plans into concrete steps that impact their communities and the planet

more global education video resources

Dan Rather's interview with Linda Darling- Hammond: In just 30 years, Finland transformed its school system from one that was mediocre and inequitable, to one that consistently produces some of the world's best students, while virtually eliminating an achievement gap. And they do it without standardized testing.
Asia Society's VP of Education, Tony Jackson describes what the American education system needs to leapfrog from its current status today, to one of innovation and effectiveness, especially as it prepares children for a global future.
The world is getting smaller.....
Teach Children to invent jobs, not find them. Yong Zhao discusses students as global entrepreneurs.
The idea of reducing the world’s population to a community of only 100 people is very useful and important. It makes us easily understand the differences in the world. 
Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity's greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk calling for a global ethic, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown fields questions from TED Curator Chris Anderson.
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