QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #89

Global teaching and learning

 

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The Global Dimension website has been running for over 5 years, and has been gaining a loyal following of teachers and educators year on year. The website evolved from the Government's 1997 White Paper Eliminating World Poverty: A Challenge for the 21st Century. The White Paper called for every child to be educated about development issues, so that they can understand the key global considerations which will shape their lives. Working with the formal education sector is the top priority for DFID's Development Awareness work, and the site was developed as a way of giving teachers access to the best development education materials available.

from http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/default.aspx?id=214

 

Chauvinistic and nationalistic pressure upon those who promote global education is not unique to the United States. Similar pressures have been brought to bear on the movement in many countries. Data from a study of global education practices in 52 countries reported in the new book, Global Education: A Worldwide Movement, discussed in this article, attests to this fact. In many nations of the world today, schooling is still seen as a major force in the building of national loyalties. The relationship between education and, more specifically, global education on the one hand and nationalism on the other turned out to be a major theme throughout the findings of the study. The first chapter of the book was devoted to exploring the worldwide paradigm shift toward global interdependence and the meaning of this shift for educators everywhere.

from http://www.globaled.org/issues/150/a.html

 

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http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/

 

 

“By including the global dimension in teaching, links can easily be made between local and global issues and young people are given the opportunity to:

 

Such knowledge, skills and understanding enable young people to make informed decisions about how they can play an active role in the global community.”

 

 

 

http://tokyolectures.org/about/tokyolectures.org_project.pdf

 

 

“On the basis of state-of-the-art technology and a novel method of

knowledge transfer our experiment in global teaching aims at creating a highly interactive learning environment and taking today‘s potential in global teaching to the next level. A major aspect of our project is to not only make cutting edge scientific content accessible to all students and researchers worldwide œ but also to use science as a tool for intercultural communication. We believe that global teaching can be a fantastic tool to create intercultural discourse œ to bring people from different cultures together who don‘t know of each other or would not share common activities in other contexts.”

 

 

 

http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/index.shtml

 

 

 

“Our interactive database, InfoNation, is accessed by thousands of users monthly who pull up accurate official and up-to-date information and statistics regarding the countries of the world.”

 

 

 

 

http://www.unicef.org/voy/index.php

 

 

“Voices of Youth is a vibrant online meeting place where young people from around the world explore, discuss, and take action on global problems. This website has everything from interactive games and lively discussion boards to puzzles and brain teasers…”

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://cbdd.wsu.edu/media/ppt/ADECRealPeople04_22.ppt

 

Detailed PowerPoint presentation on major themes in global education, with ample statistics on worldwide literacy, development, and related concerns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.bctf.ca/social/GlobalEd/GlobalClassroom/

 

 

“This website contains unit plans designed for teachers, by teachers.  The units explore the themes of global education across the grades and across the curriculum.  The units contain all of the necessary handouts and materials to be easily utilized in the classroom setting…”

 

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Previous editions of the QUICK RESOURCE SHEET

#1 – Creating quizzes (and more) online                                                         

#2 – Vocabulary builders

#3 – Online discussion groups for English teachers                                    

#4 – Grammar headaches – and how to cure them

#5 – Resources for new teachers                                                     

#6 – International Education Week

#7 – Mentoring programs                                                                    

#8 – Education publications online

#9 – Applied Linguistics                                                                   

#10 – English for Young Learners

#11 – World AIDS Day                                                                      

#12 – Online writing guides

#13 – E-mail exchanges                                                                      

#14 – Free online English courses

#15 – Effective e-mail communication                                             

#16 – Libraries online

#17 – American Studies                                                                     

#18 – Teaching methodologies

#19 – Internet tutorials                                                                       

#20 – Using the newspaper – Part I

#21 – Making books                                                                           

#22 - Using the newspaper – Part II

#23 – Human rights in language teaching

#24 – Blogging

#25 – Poetry and language teaching

#26 – The communicative approach

#27 -  Idioms

#28 – Earth Day

#29 – Alternative assessment

#30 – Peer assessment

#31 – Self-assessment

#32 – Portfolio assessment – Part I

#33 -  Portfolio assessment - Part II (Online Portfolios)

#34 – Intercultural communication

#35 – Teaching Adults

#36 – Learning disorders / Special needs

#37 – Using computers in reading instruction

#38 – Use of authentic materials

#39 – English for Medical Purposes

#40 – Sources for authentic materials

#41 – Education and technology

#42 – Academic writing

#43 – Teaching and stress

#44 – Back to school

#45 – Motivating students

#46 – Action research

#47 – Internet terminology

#48 – Fluency

#49 – Curriculum design

#50 – Pragmatics

#51 - Podcasting for English teachers

#52 – Critical reading

#53 – Learner autonomy

#54 – Scaffolding

#55 – Holidays

#56 – English for Academic Purposes

#57 – Mixed-level classes

#58 – The brain and language learning

#59 – Book clubs/Readers’ groups

#60 – Teachers and technology

#61 – Using video in the language classroom

#62 – Internet-based classroom projects

#63 – Observing student teachers

#64 – Digital literacy

#65 – Group work

#66 – Giving feedback on student writing

#67 – Vlogging

#68 – Educational leadership

#69 – The first five minutes: How to get a class warmed up

#70 – Managing test anxiety

#71 – Developing listening comprehension

#72 – Discourse analysis

#73 – English for Tourism

#74 – Storytelling

#75 – Virtual Learning Environments

#76 – Sociolinguistics

#77 – Corpus Linguistics

#78 – Teaching teenagers

#79 – Lexical Approach

#80 – Humanism in language teaching

#81 – Collaborative teaching

#82 – Distance learning

#83 – Open Education

#84 – The non-native speaker as English teacher

#85 – Contrastive grammar

#86 – Plagiarism

#87 – English through drama

#88 – Lifelong learning