Global Education Guide and Resource for Teachers
This site was created to help the students and faculty of Sky View High School explore the world. By incorporating global education resources and competencies into our classrooms, we help our students become active learners and global citizens, with awareness and initiative to help resolve challenges in our community and world. Global Education Resources provide educators with resources that will guide and support more global awareness the classroom. Teacher Resources provides information and ideas about how to add global competencies into content area classrooms. Explore the Georgia is my travel blog about my international field experience in the Republic of Georgia with the teachers for Global Classrooms Program.
To learn more about or apply for to the TGC program click here.
This site was created to help the students and faculty of Sky View High School explore the world. By incorporating global education resources and competencies into our classrooms, we help our students become active learners and global citizens, with awareness and initiative to help resolve challenges in our community and world. Global Education Resources provide educators with resources that will guide and support more global awareness the classroom. Teacher Resources provides information and ideas about how to add global competencies into content area classrooms. Explore the Georgia is my travel blog about my international field experience in the Republic of Georgia with the teachers for Global Classrooms Program.
To learn more about or apply for to the TGC program click here.
Global Education
Global Education is a lens (or perspective) through which material on the curriculum is viewed. Teachers employ certain methods, outlined herein, which allow the students at any age to employ this lens to illuminate any subject material. Global Education respects environmental needs, peace and justice, and human rights for all through positive ways of reaching out to the students’ peers in developing countries, and around the world. It transcends subject matter and age level, and through focusing on developing global citizens, adds authenticity to any curriculum. Global competency are a way of quantifying and measuring Global education in the classroom. Global education doesn't require that you make massive changes to the curriculum that you teach. It simple requires that you open your classroom to a new world of possibilities.
Global Education will:
Global Education is a lens (or perspective) through which material on the curriculum is viewed. Teachers employ certain methods, outlined herein, which allow the students at any age to employ this lens to illuminate any subject material. Global Education respects environmental needs, peace and justice, and human rights for all through positive ways of reaching out to the students’ peers in developing countries, and around the world. It transcends subject matter and age level, and through focusing on developing global citizens, adds authenticity to any curriculum. Global competency are a way of quantifying and measuring Global education in the classroom. Global education doesn't require that you make massive changes to the curriculum that you teach. It simple requires that you open your classroom to a new world of possibilities.
Global Education will:
- Prepares our students to participate fully in today’s and tomorrow’s world
- Allows our students to learn about, within, and for a complex and interconnected world
- Utilizes global literacy- ability to function in an increasingly globalized world
“This blog is not an official U.S. Department of State blog. The views and information presented are the grantee’s own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.”