Teachers for Global Classrooms
A Capstone Project
A Rationale...With each passing day, the people of our planet become increasingly more connected. Educators realize that in order for our students to effectively interact within such an interconnected global environment they need to understand the rest of the world and how such an understanding relates to them as individuals and as common inhabitants of our plane. Thus, globalizing our classrooms and curriculum is now an imperative that we cannot ignore. Global education efforts, with an emphasis on 21st Century technology skills, seek to prepare students 1) to investigate matters of global significance, 2) to recognize and respect various perspectives on these important matters, 3) to effectively communicate a position on these matters through a variety of media, and 4) to take action so as to have a positive impact upon within world.
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Click here for the 2012 Global Competency Survey conducted by World Savvy.
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A Program...
Enter here the Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) program. TGC provides meaningful professional development for classrooms teachers with the goal of embedding global education competencies within the minds of our students. For those teachers accepted into the program, TGC provides an engaging and interactive eight-week online course, a pre-travel Global Education Symposium, a trip to an international destination so as to visit cultural sites and interact with the schools and communities of native host teachers (2012 destinations include Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morroco, and
Ukraine), and a post-travel Global Education Symposium. Throughout the entire program, teachers are actively involved in the creation of a "capstone project" to serve as a resource tool for helping to increase the level of global education within their individual classrooms, their schools, their districts, and/or their states.
The website you are viewing represents the "capstone project" of David C. Burton who teaches at Southmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City. This capstone project website seeks to help provide you with information showing the need for global education, ways to assess global education within your classroom, and a wealth of resources to help incorporated global competencies into your existing curriculum. Feel free to leave your reflections, suggestions, questions, and/or other impressions of this project for Mr. Burton on the Comments and Feedback form.
Ukraine), and a post-travel Global Education Symposium. Throughout the entire program, teachers are actively involved in the creation of a "capstone project" to serve as a resource tool for helping to increase the level of global education within their individual classrooms, their schools, their districts, and/or their states.
The website you are viewing represents the "capstone project" of David C. Burton who teaches at Southmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City. This capstone project website seeks to help provide you with information showing the need for global education, ways to assess global education within your classroom, and a wealth of resources to help incorporated global competencies into your existing curriculum. Feel free to leave your reflections, suggestions, questions, and/or other impressions of this project for Mr. Burton on the Comments and Feedback form.
above: "What is Geo-literacy?" from National Geographic
below: "Did You Know? 3.0" from Karl Fisch & updated for 2012 |
above: "Why is Geo-literacy Important? from National Geographic
below: Presient Obama is featured at the 2012 National Geographic Bee |
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and/or information presented are the grantee's own and do not necessarily represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.
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