Teacher Resources for Global Education
Recommended Books (support your favorite Indie bookstore)
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Mastering Global Literacy: Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy by Heidi Hayes Jacobs (Editor)
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why by Richard E. Nisbett
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Empowering All Students at Scale by Fernando M. Reimers
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Twelve Lessons to Open Classrooms and Minds to the World by Fernando M. Reimers
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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Empowering Students to Change the World in Sixty Lessons by Fernando M. Reimers
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The Curious Traveler: See the world. Change your life. by David Livermore
Children's Books
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This is How We Do It by Matt LaMothe
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If You Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche
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Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students From Around the World by Baptiste Paul, Miranda Paul, and Isabel Muñoz
Favorite PDFs
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Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World from the Asia Society
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Virtual Exchange Toolkit from The Collaboratory, Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
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Global Education Websites
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Global Education: Learn, Grow, Connect - My website about Global Education and my visit to India
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Global Competence for Educators - Peace Corps
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GLOBE, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program - international science and education program for data collection and the scientific process
Lesson Plans
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Google Earth Resources - Step-by-step guides and tutorials for Geo Tools
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Visible Thinking Core Routines - from Project Zero at Harvard
Great Websites for Students
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Academy of Achievement - Shows our students (future leaders) profiles of extraordinary pioneers who helped shape our world
Global Literature
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Global Storybooks Portal - free, multilingual literacy resource - read and listen to illustrated stories
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International Children's Digital Library - a collection of books representing historical and contemporary stories from around the world
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Global Read Aloud - sign up for this six-week project where classrooms around the world read the same book and make global connections
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World of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures - find books to open the world to children
Arts, Literature, and Culture
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Teach with Europeana - resources for using the Europeana Collections
Articles to Read
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Nurturing a Global Mind: What educators can do to help students become global citizens by Emily Boudreau
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A Curriculum for Changing the World: Preparing students for an interconnected, global society - starting in kindergarten by Heather Beasley Doyle
Stories to Inspire Action
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Aerial pictures reveal inequalities in cities from National Geographic
Recommended Professional Development Opportunities
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TED - Transatlantic Educators Dialogue - Collaboration between educators from the European Union and the United States, for shared exploration of educational topics
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Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms - Yearlong professional development program for educators in the United States to help prepare students for a competitive global economy.
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Brussels Study Tour - 5-day trip to Brussels, Belgium, to learn about the European Union. Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh's European Studies Center and the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina, and funded by a Getting to Know Europe grant from the EU Delegation to the U.S., and funding from Center's National Resource Centers grant from the U.S. Department of Education.