What is global education?

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What is global education?

• Global education is a systematic effort to
  communicate the awareness that the planet Earth
  and the people who live on it are increasingly
  interdependent.
• We are citizens of the world as well as of our
  respected nations.

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Key Concepts/Components

• Interdependence
• Change
• Problem Solving
• Cultural Diversity
• Adaptation
• Responsibility
• Technology

• Distribution
• Conflict
• Systems
• Cooperation
• Tolerance
• Modification
• Pluralisms

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Essential Questions

• In what ways are nations of the world
  interconnected?
• How may global awareness contribute to the
  survival of our own nation?
• How does global awareness advance the development
  of all mankind?

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Primary Global Education

• Why Teach in Primary Grades?
• Student perceptions have not yet been formed by
  stereotypic attitudes and their cognitive
  development is sufficiently advanced to accept a
  diversity of viewpoints.
• How to Implement Global Ed
• give examples of conflict, cooperation, and
  interdependence among individuals, groups, and
  nations
• investigate concerns, issues, standards, and
  conflicts related to universal human rights, such
  as the treatment of children, religious groups,
  and effects of war.

• Lesson Examples
• Children as Peace Builders
• Outcomes Students consider the roles children can
  play in peace building and overcoming obstacles
  to peace.
• Think of a time when you disagreed with or were
  in conflict with someone else. How did you
  resolve it? What other ways could the situation
  have been resolved? Which alternative would have
  achieved the best (win/win) outcome for all
  involved?
• Develop a role play acting out the best
  alternative.
• Write your own poem or story about building peace
  plan for your own community.
• Imagine that you have fled your home during a
  conflict you are able to return home after a
  peace resolution has been negotiated. 
• How would it feel to return home?
• What might your home and community look like?
• What would be needed to rebuild your home and
  community?
• What order would you want these things?
• Create a peace plan and present it to the class.
  Create and implement a class school or community
  peace plan.

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Global Education

• The Upper Grades
• Using cultural elements to facilitate global
  understanding.
• Promote cooperation/prevent conflict
• Changing technologies
• Health, security, resources, economic
  development, and environmental quality.
• National vs. global interests
• Universal human rights
• Role of international and multinational
  organizations.

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Website Resources

• TeachGlobalEd.net
• UNESCO
• Victoria International Development Education
  Association

• The American Forum for Education
• Global Education
• Global Education Teaching Resources
• Global Nomads Group

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Why is global education part of Social Studies?

• A thorough exploration of the major concepts of
  global education involves all six major
  components of Social Studies and falls within the
  Social Studies framework.

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California Standards

• Grade 1 A childs place in time and space
• Grade 2 People who make a difference
• Grade 6 World History and Geography Ancient
  Civilizations
• Grade 7 World History and Geography Medieval
  and Early Modern Times

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National Standards

• I. Culture
• II. Time, Continuity, and Change
• III. People, Places, and Environment
• IV. Individual Development and Identity
• V. Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
• VI. Power, Authority, and Governance
• VII. Production, Distribution, and Consumption
• VIII. Science, Technology, and Society
• IX. Global Connections
• X. Civic Ideals and Practices