Join Facing the Future and Global Visionaries for a FREE day-long workshop to learn effective strategies to engage students in being active global citizens! You will walk away from this workshop with free resources, new approaches, and a community of support to begin integrating global issues and sustainable solutions into your classroom. This workshop also includes FREE clock hours! Rick Steves will be the keynote speaker. He will share with us his thoughts…
Fellow Global Education Enthusiasts, I am excited about two new finds! Check out these links and share your thoughts here! 1) “Connect All Schools” http://www.connectallschools.org/home This website is just what it sounds like. Citing a line from President Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo, the “About” section of the site explains the goal of connecting all schools in the US with schools in other countries by 2016. The website encourages educators to: 1.…
American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce the 2011 Intensive Summer Language Institutes Program taking place next summer in Alexandria, Egypt and Changchun, China. The Intensive Summer Language Institutes provide fully funded fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. The program targets current K-12 teachers and community college instructors of Arabic and Chinese, as well as students enrolled in education…
By signing the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, President Obama has set forth the first policy of its kind by a U.S. administration recognizing that “development is vital to U.S. national security and is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative for the United States.” For decades, the U.S. government has made global development an imperative, with private and public funders focusing, understandably, on everything from micro-lending programs to bringing together cross-sector partnerships…
Global competency, 21st century skills, international programming--all buzz words these days for cutting edge, future-minded education. We've heard from members of the business community-- these are the skills students need to be developing to be successful members of 21st century life. It's all very exciting--but what does it mean for the average teacher? What does it look like in the classroom?