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Here is a short video with a focus on Global Education!
During the 2016-2017 school year, I had an amazing opportunity. I was a participant in the Teachers for Global Classrooms program. This is a year long professional development program to engages teachers from across the United States with a common goal of viewing our curricula and our instructional practices through a global lens. This was a logical connection for me since at CHESPAX we are working to build student understanding of not only local environmental issues, but global concerns as well.
The program involved 10 weeks of a rather intensive online, graduate level course in which I engaged with teachers from other disciplines in schools as far away as Alaska and Hawaii. Though out the course, we explored some of the theory supporting global education and had dialogue with professionals from the field.
In February, we met at a symposium in Washington, D.C. where we explored global education further and made personal connections with our colleagues that we had come to know through the online course. We also had an opportunity to connect with our travel cohorts for the Spring or Summer International Field Experiences.
In July, I traveled to India as a part of a team of 11 teachers to learn about the educational system there and to share with students and teachers from that country, a bit about our educational program in Calvert County.
Our Indian counterparts welcomed us into their classrooms and their homes; provided candid insights into the challenges of teaching in a developing nation that lacks many of the resources that we take for granted here in the U.S.; and demonstrated an interest in forming partnerships with our schools and students.
I looked forward to building on this experience and working with my Indian colleagues on some collaborative projects in the coming school year.
This website is a collection of the resources, images and impressions gathered over the past year. Teachers interested in integrating global education into their curriculum will find a number of articles, videos, and other resources that will start them on their own global journey. The blog page provides a sort of travelogue of my experiences in India. I intend to add to this blog as I begin collaborative activities with my colleagues there. Over the course of the professional development program, I learned about new tech tools to incorporate into the classroom, check this page out to learn more about some interesting resources that can be used for all sorts of classroom activities. Over the past year, I've been working at integrating mosquito education as a thread that runs through our entire seventh grade curriculum. Mosquitoes are an issue locally and globally as vectors of disease. Check out the unit plan that I developed for my professional development project for TGC!
The program involved 10 weeks of a rather intensive online, graduate level course in which I engaged with teachers from other disciplines in schools as far away as Alaska and Hawaii. Though out the course, we explored some of the theory supporting global education and had dialogue with professionals from the field.
In February, we met at a symposium in Washington, D.C. where we explored global education further and made personal connections with our colleagues that we had come to know through the online course. We also had an opportunity to connect with our travel cohorts for the Spring or Summer International Field Experiences.
In July, I traveled to India as a part of a team of 11 teachers to learn about the educational system there and to share with students and teachers from that country, a bit about our educational program in Calvert County.
Our Indian counterparts welcomed us into their classrooms and their homes; provided candid insights into the challenges of teaching in a developing nation that lacks many of the resources that we take for granted here in the U.S.; and demonstrated an interest in forming partnerships with our schools and students.
I looked forward to building on this experience and working with my Indian colleagues on some collaborative projects in the coming school year.
This website is a collection of the resources, images and impressions gathered over the past year. Teachers interested in integrating global education into their curriculum will find a number of articles, videos, and other resources that will start them on their own global journey. The blog page provides a sort of travelogue of my experiences in India. I intend to add to this blog as I begin collaborative activities with my colleagues there. Over the course of the professional development program, I learned about new tech tools to incorporate into the classroom, check this page out to learn more about some interesting resources that can be used for all sorts of classroom activities. Over the past year, I've been working at integrating mosquito education as a thread that runs through our entire seventh grade curriculum. Mosquitoes are an issue locally and globally as vectors of disease. Check out the unit plan that I developed for my professional development project for TGC!