global education: more than just trips

Global Education More Than Just Trips

Richard Kassissieh

director of information technology

Paul Monheimer World Cultures Teacher

Catlin Gabel School

Portland, Oregon, USA http://www.catlin.edu/global-education

Catlin Gabel School

Catlin Gabel School

Presenters

Paul Monheimer World Cultures Teacher

Richard Kassissieh director of information

technology

Presentation Outline

!   Our premise: cultural competence

!   Partners: collaborators at home and abroad

!   Curriculum: where is global education in your school?

!   Community: how to involve the entire school

!   Presence: celebrating diversity – much more than inclusion

Our Premise

!   Provide varied experiences for all students

!   Start in the earliest grades

!   Connect students to communities abroad

!   Create a sense of global citizenship and activism

!   Develop students' cultural competence

“Cultural competence is the will and the ability to form authentic relationships across difference.”

--Gary Howard

Partners Collaborations at home and abroad

Wheel of Partnerships

Catlin Gabel Global Education

Professional Development

Other Schools

Tertiary Institutions

Division Partners

Teachers From All Disciplines NGOs

Service Organizations

Global Trips

Exchange Students

Mercy Corps

!   Action Center visits

!   CG teacher blogs for Haiti

!   “Why Not?” Skype chat

!   Trip group workshops on cultural competence or specific issues

Guatemala Partners

Sénégal Partners

!   Guest speakers

!   In-country presence

Botswana Partners

!   Botswana-Baylor Clinic

! Maru-a-Pula School

!   Princess Marina Hospital

!   Cascade AIDS Project

Israeli Partners

! Beit Sefer Huberman

! Petach Tikva

! Huberman blog

! Animoto project

Bienestar Homework Club !   Local service

!   Students visit every week

!   Within local Latino community

Curriculum Where is global education in your school?

If global education is not in the core curriculum of your school, it may as well not exist.

A Window Into Gaza

!   Partner: Mercy Corps

!   In-country youth clubs

!   “Why Not?” handbook

!   Sufficient contact time

!   Bilateral motivation

!   Cultural sensitivity

!   Technical support

HIV/AIDS in Botswana !   Pathogens and Pathology class

!   Advanced Biology class

!   Statistics classes

!   Media Arts class

!   Eighth grade history class

!   Model United Nations club

!   Global Citizens club

!   Diversity Day

Service Programs

Strong service programs at home make for strong service programs abroad.

Costa Rica: reforestation

Guatemala: health and development

Botswana: HIV/AIDS and orphans

Senegal: education and entrepreneurship

Trip Planning

! Partnership practice

!   Relate to present-day U.S.

!   Helping school collect contacts

! Use of tech tools

Trip Planning Details

!   Plan a month-long trip

!   Trip planning is collaborative

!   Facts and budgets

!   Use on mobile device

Teacher International Experience

Teachers with international experience lead the way in integrating global education within the curriculum.

Community How to involve the entire school

Trip Journalism

!   Includes the school community in the trip experience

!   Blog

!   Podcast

!   Video

!   Forum

! iReport (CNN Int’l)

Tech Toolkit

!   Audio recorders

!   iPod/iPad

!   Flip Video

!   Web tools

Telling Our Stories !   Making visible the

diversity of international experiences

!   Structured interviews

!   Narrative articles

!   With or without students

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http://www.catlin.edu/global-education/telling-our-stories

Viewfinder Global Film Series

!   Community events

!   Teacher and student led

!   Relevant themes

!   Celebrate diversity

Assemblies and Guest Speakers

!   Hispanic Heritage Month

! Jensine Larsen & World Pulse

!   Tracy Kidder

!   Anne Keiser

!   Sandy Northrup and David Lamb

! Maru-a-Pula Marimba Band

Student Organizations

!   Model United Nations Club

!   Global Citizens Club

! Ujima

!   Diversity Conference

Presence Celebrating diversity – much more than inclusion

International Students

! “Now you’re one of us.”

!   “We are one with you.”

!   Annual exchanges with two schools

!   Additional students inquire

Visiting Groups

!   Gifu Kita High School

!   Martinique

! Maru-a-Pula Marimba Band

Fulbright Program

Independent Student Travel

!   Students apply to leave

!   Invited to tell their stories

!   Many existing vehicles for sharing experiences

Teacher Experience

!   Consideration in the hiring process

!   Invitation to all teachers to participate

!   Global trips as professional development

Your Stories

Please add links to your stories to the chat

Q&A

Credits

!   Mercy Corps Exterior: Maribel Lucatero http://www.flickr.com/photos/131734/4730191415/

! Mercy Corps Interior: Mercy Corps http://www.actioncenter.org/portland

!   Botswana-Baylor Clinic: Botswana Teen Club http://botswanateenclub.wordpress.com/

! Beit Sefer Huberman Blog http://huberman10.blogspot.com/