global education: more than just trips
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How to integrate global education throughout your school curriculum and community.TRANSCRIPT
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/