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The Global School
Connecting Classrooms and Students Around the World
Prepare students for an increasingly flat world—a place where diverse people from divergent cultures learn and work together rather than in isolation. Learn specific steps to globalize your classroom, and move beyond the call for students to memorize material to instead encourage higher-order thinking. These ideas, assignments, projects, and assessments are all wrapped in a 21st century skills framework.
Benefits
- Explore innovative ways to embrace globalization and connect K–12 classrooms and learners worldwide.
- Understand the significant impact of the Common Core State Standards on instruction for 21st century skills.
- Identify applicable projects, strategies, and assessments to shift traditional classrooms into global education centers.
- Discover empowering tips to develop students’ higher-order thinking.
- Learn to scale the straightforward steps all teachers—whether novice or technologically savvy—can take to help their students become participants in a global society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: What Is Global Education?
Chapter 2: The World Within Your Classroom
Chapter 3: The World Across Classrooms
Chapter 4: The Classroom in the World
Chapter 5: Getting Started
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Guides for International Texts
- Association for Library Service to Children: Batchelder Award
- Connected Youth at the Austin Public Library
- Historical and/or Multicultural YA Books
- International Children's Digital Library
- Multicultural Experience: Books for Teens
- Notable Books for a Global Society
- Outstanding International Books List
- Text Exemplars From the Common Core State Standards
International English Language News Sources
Resources for Travel Research
- Concierge
- Fodor's Travel
- Frommer's
- Lonely Planet
- The Travel Net Top 20
- TripAdvisor
- VirtualTourist
- Yahoo! Travel
Teacher-Prepared Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips
- 4-H Virtual Farm
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Inside the White House Interactive Tour
- Interactive Tour of the Solar System
- Natural Wonders of the World Field Trip
- NOVA/PBS Online Adventures
- Smithsonian
- The Teacher's Guide: Virtual Tours and Fieldtrips
- WebExhibits
Additional Resources
- Asia Society: International Studies Schools Network
- Blackboard
- Byki
- Class Afloat
- Common Core State Standards Initiative
- Creative Commons
- Drupal
- ePals Global Community
- Global Education Conference
- Global Nomads Group
- Global SchoolNet
- Global Trek
- Glogster EDU
- Google Earth
- Google News
- iEARN
- International Baccalaureate
- International CyberFair
- K12 Online Conference
- National Park Service
- New Tech Network
- Ning
- ooVoo
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Scholastic BookFlix
- SchoolsOnline
- Skype
- TakingITGlobal
- TumbleBookLibrary
- Wikibooks