This website is a tool to creating global citizens within education. Use the resources and information to guide your lessons in your district, school, or classroom. Globalizing our students will lead to more passionate, creative, understanding problem solvers and creative thinker and teachers are leading the way! Welcome to the journey!
What is Global Education?
Educating our students to possess the knowledge, skills, and disposition to understand and act creatively on issues of global significance is vital. Specifically, global education seeks to make students competent in investigating the world, recognizing perspectives, communicating ideas across diverse audiences, and taking action to improve conditions globally.
Global education revolves around these four key components:
- Investigating the world beyond one’s own immediate environment, framing significant problems and conducting well-crafted and age-appropriate research.
- Recognizing perspectives, others’ and one’s own, while articulating and explaining such perspectives thoughtfully and respectfully.
- Communicating ideas effectively with diverse audiences, bridging geographic, linguistic, ideological and cultural barriers.
- Taking action to improve conditions viewing oneself as a player in the world and participating reflectively.
Why is global education important?
Our entire world is interconnected and dependent on collaboration and cooperation. Global education is essential to understanding the inter-connectivity of the world and those who live in it. As we move further into the 21st century, students need to be prepared to communicate across borders, work together to solve global problems, and understand that they are citizens of the world!
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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
17 Goals developed by the United Nations to be achieved by 2030 in order to make the world a better place!
Learn about the global goals Click here to find out more about the Global Goals, ways you can use them in your classroom, connections to classroom projects and resources, and how you can get involved!
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