1. Global Ready Graduates: Resources for ANY Classroom
Southern Lehigh School District
Dr. Leah M. Christman

2. Bringing the World to Pennsylvania Award
Southern Lehigh is the Recipient of PaCIE’s (Pennsylvania Council for International Education)
Bringing the World to Pennsylvania Award

3. Are you Global Ready? Why global? Why now?
“Educating towards global competence is to develop students’ understanding of themselves as integral parts of the world community. Students become aware of the world as a dynamic, interconnected system that often requires sophisticated interventions to equitably promote human interests. Global competence is the fuel students need to develop sensibilities for advancing local and global solutions with concern for all people and generations.” (p21)

4. A District Challenge…
Promote global education- embedding global activities across content and expanding partnerships with other countries.

5. SHIFT HAPPENS

6. What’s the urgency? Changing US demographics
Changing GLOBAL demographics
Technology changes everything
Global Economy
21st Century Skills/Authentic Learning
Key Subjects and Themes
Life & Career Skills
Learning & Innovation (4 C’s)
Info, Technology & Media

7. What are Global Outcomes?
ACTION!

8. 6 Elements of a Global Approach
from p21:
1. Global Competency Standards for Students and Teachers
2. Effective and Scalable Teacher Supports, Resources, and Tools for infusing classroom with global knowledge and skills
3. A New Approach to Language Instruction that includes statewide dual language/immersion plan beginning in elementary school and refocusing traditional high school world language courses
4. Whole-School Models that include internationally-themed schools, transformation models for low-performing schools, and regional dual language/immersion schools
5. Networking and Recognizing Districts, Schools, and Educators to drive implementation and innovation
6. Global Experiences for Students and Educators including teacher exchange, educational travel, virtual exchange, and global academic competitions

9. Global Teacher Framework

10. Our SLSD Initiatives
Informed Stakeholders
Critical Languages
Guest Teachers & Exchanges
Sister Schools
Travel
Global Connections

11. Guest Scholars- Short and Longer Visits
China
Equator
Uruguay
Egypt
Senegal

12. IREX - Teachers for Global Classrooms Program

13. Senegal!

14. Critical Virtual Languages
Arabic
Japanese
Latin
(Others are available)
AIU8 (Appalachia Intermediate Unit #8)
Contact: Pat Mulroy

15. Sister Schools

16. International School – Tangshan, China

17. France!
Are you ready????

18. Global Nomads Why Virtual Exchange?
Less than 3% of young people travel during their academic career, but technology allows us to connect cultures and communities we may otherwise never encounter. Virtual exchanges are technology-based education programs that foster people-to-people interactions, despite physical location.
In your Classroom:
Free Online Lesson Plans
Online
Watch live or recorded discussions
Apply to a program
Campfire, Youth Voices, or Pulse.
Connect virtually
Virtual Reality Lab

19. Global Citizens in Action
Online teacher collaboration w/ GNG staff and educators in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Curriculum: recognizing your own assumptions, bias in media, U.S. presence in Afghanistan, etc.
Student exchange on google platform.
Five student video conferences and one parent video conference with peers in Kabul & Karachi.
Culminating collaborative project: student documentary “Fighting Ignorance”

20. EF - Annual trips abroad
Costa Rica Spain France New Zealand Build in School Australia Visits Cook Island China Switzerland

21. CILC.org
Find:
Collaborative Projects- near and far
Post ISO collaborations
Free online “content’ programs
Research, and more…

22. How to begin?
Self - assessment for global issues, culture and connections in knowledge, skills, participation… investigation, perspectives, action and communication.
Review age-appropriate standards and plan for integration into existing curriculum regardless of content area.
Plan Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary lessons- collaborate with colleagues near and far.
Involve students in planning… (They are full of ideas!)
Start small and build!

23.
Contact Leah Christman for more information or any questions!