What are other recommended global education resources that I can take a look at?
Here you will find additional global education resources, teaching guides, units of study, lesson plans, self-assessment tools, and MORE!
Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage with the World
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Educating for Global Competenceis a guide published by the Asia Society that houses a wealth of information about global education including:
a rationale for global education
a conceptual framework for global competence
an in-depth explanation of the four core capacities (investigating the world, recognizing perspectives, communicating ideas, & taking action)
core instructional principles for teaching global competence
suggestions for what schools and public education systems can do to promote global competence.
The Global Goals
In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030. Most curricular topics can be effectively linked to one or more global goals in order to bring a global perspective to a unit of study and to increase relevance and meaning of classroom content. If you're looking for ways to incorporate more global learning into your classroom, introducing the global goals and posting them in your classroom is a great place to start, even for young learners.
The World's Largest Lesson
The World's Largest Lesson has lesson plans and creative teaching resources to teach and take action on the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and fix climate change. The goals relate to topics like quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, and reduced inequalities.
Asia Society's Center for Global Education: Lesson Plans, Curriculum, & Resources
Asia Society's Center for Global Education includes lesson plans, scholarly essays, primary resources, and curriculum to build student global competence and understanding of Asia and the world. There are also how-to guides on a range of topics, from starting a service-learning program, an international journalism club, a critical language program, and much more.
C3 Teachers: Inquiry Archive
C3 Teachershosts a collection of curricular inquiries connected to global education topics. All inquiries on the website follow the Inquiry Design Model, which is "a distinctive approach to creating curriculum and instructional materials that honors teachers’ knowledge and expertise, avoids overprescription, and focuses on the main elements of the instructional design process as envisioned in the Inquiry Arc of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State Social Studies Standards (2013)." Teachers can filter inquiries based on grade and topic.
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
This Cloud Institute offers lessons and units related to sustainability. Each unit is tailored to a grade level band: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The Cloud Institute prepares "school systems and their communities to educate for a sustainable future by inspiring educators and engaging students through meaningful content and learner-centered instruction."
The Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center has free lesson plans and units related to global education that are searchable by subject, such as climate change, food security, and human rights. It also offers professional development opportunities, university partnerships, and a variety of special programs for educators from K-12+ that connect students to pressing global issues and journalists who cover the issues.
National Geographic Society: Education Resources
Many of the National Geographic lessons and units are designed for students in grades 7+. However, if you click on "Teaching Resources: Ideas," you will find several ideas for elementary students. In addition, the search option (top right magnifying glass) allows you to filter results by grades, types, and subjects once you type something into the search bar.
United States Institute of Peace: Elementary School Resources
The United States Institute of Peace offers resources and lessons to help teach global peacebuilding concepts and skills to upper elementary students. The site has action ideas for 3rd-5th grade students. It also includes a list of recommended books to help young students address issues such as bullying and conflict and build their understanding of concepts such as empowerment, empathy, and forgiveness.
Primary Source
Primary Source has a collection of global education resources. However, resources are limited with the Basic membership. The Premium membership ($25 annual fee) gives teachers access to all resources.
TeachUNICEF: Lesson Plans & Resources
TeachUNICEF has global learning resources and programs for teachers. According to the website, "Through a focus on global citizenship and child rights, TeachUNICEF engages students in an exploration of humanitarian issues and inspires them to take action to improve their world."
International Children's Digital Library
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) houses a collection of multicultural e-books that represents historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Many of the books are bilingual and include lower frequency languages. The mission of the ICDL Foundation is "to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas - by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge. The Foundation pursues its vision by building a digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world and supporting communities of children and adults in exploring and using this literature through innovative technology designed in close partnership with children for children."
OXFAM's Global Citizenship Guides
This OXFAM websitecontains several guides for teaching global citizenship. Specifically, the Education for Global Citizenship guide explains ways to develop the key skills, values, and attitudes, and areas of knowledge and understanding associated with global citizenship. It also provides case studies and ideas to support the development of global citizenship knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes across all content areas.
Teaching Controversial Issues Guide
Since many teachers have questions about how to approach controversial issues in their curriculum, this is a particularly noteworthy guide from the OXFAM global citizenship guide website. The "Teaching Controversial Issues" guide includes useful tips and guidance on classroom strategies and activities that educators can immediately implement in their classrooms.
The Global Education Checklist can be used as a self-assessment tool for teachers, school, school systems, and state education agencies to measure the degree of success in global issues, global culture, and global connections. Once the checklist is completed, educators should develop an action plan for the development of specific goals related to global education.
The Globally Competent Learning Continuumis a valuable tool for goal setting. Educators can self-assess their personal dispositions, knowledge, and skills using the continuum. After self-assessing and sharing out with a larger group, teachers could then use the continuum to set attainable short- and long-term goals for their classrooms and school community.
World Savvy
The World Savvy resource pagehas many resources you can use to implement the World Savvy program in your classroom, including the World Savvy classrooms toolkit, case studies, population and progress resources, and student projects.
The Story of Stuff Project
The Story of Stuff Projectinspires and encourages the civic engagement of the more than one million members of their global community, who are working together to build a healthier and more just planet. The organization believes: "We have a problem with Stuff. We use too much, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well. But that’s not the way things have to be. Together, we can build a society based on better not more, sharing not selfishness, community not division." Visit the website to watch The Story of Stuff movies, take action by joining a campaign, or explore a wealth of teaching resources.
UNICEF Kid Power Schools
The units, lesson plans, videos, multimedia, and stories in this UNICEF Kid Power collectionof teacher resources are intended to raise students' awareness of child and family rights around the world, specifically looking at the international treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Sole Hope
Sole Hope's organizational purpose is to effectively put in place preventive methods to combat diseases that enter through the feet and to create a positive physical and psychological difference in the lives of individuals in impoverished communities. Students can get involved with making a sustainable change through Sole Hope by hosting a shoe cutting party, collecting donations, or holding a collection of simple items to help with foot washing/jigger removal clinics and their Outreach House in Africa.
Pen Pals 2.0: Can Technology Foster Global Tolerance?
This November 2016 Edutopia articlediscusses the power of connecting digitally with classrooms around the world. There are links to many useful global education resources embedded within the article.
Article: What should students know about religion?
This Washington Post article provides some guidance on teaching religious studies in public schools in order to develop religiously literate students. As the article states, the “rise in religious misunderstanding accompanying global migration, world conflicts, and religious identity politics signifies the need for a renewed focus on the academic study of religion.”
"The World Is As Big Or As Small As You Make It" (Sundance Institute)
This is a beautiful video about kids connecting and building friendships with other kids across the globe. It's a great reminder of the compassionate side to human nature. "Puberty is puberty. Being a teen is being a teen. [Kids] find that there are so many similarities. They’re more connected and more alike than they are separate. It is an exchange of possibilities.”
From the Bronx and Back: A Global Education Journey
This video tells the story of Kevin Jones, a middle school teacher from the Bronx, New York. It details how his experience in the TGC Program inspired him to integrate global themes into all of his teaching to foster cultural sensitivity in his students.
Mapping the Nation
Mapping the Nation is an interactive map that includes demographic, economic, and education data points to demonstrate how global the United States is. There are also many infographics throughout the site.
The Iceberg Concept of Culture
This iceberg model serves as an excellent visual to frame discussions and learning about cultures in the global community. There are many above and below the surface aspects of culture. When designing global learning activities, be sure to explore BOTH aspects of culture --- those primarily in awareness as well as those primarily out of awareness.