21 Global Education Resources to Continue Expanding Your Students’ Horizons

Today brings International Education Week 2017 to a close. At a time when global issues seem closer to home than ever before, we’ve been grateful for the opportunity to spend a week looking at how we can help our students develop cultural competencies, empathize with people from vastly different backgrounds, and feel confident in their abilities to take on the momentous challenges they will face.

To bid farewell to the week, we’ve compiled the most popular articles we’ve published on global education into one convenient list in order to fuel what we hope is a newly-found passion for global education. They’re organized into three sections:

• The “What” and “Why,” for if you find your motivation waning throughout the year.
• Resources for teachers looking to help their students develop global skills.
• Resources for principals, superintendents and other admins looking to affect change toward a global outlook in their school or district.

The “What” and “Why”

• Why Global Should Be the Education Movement of 2017
• What Do Globally Competent Students Look Like?
• The New Equation for Global Competencies = PBL + SEL
• Shifting Paradigms to Respond to the Demands of a Global Classroom
• Hot Topics From the Harvard Think Tank on Global Education

Resources for Teachers

• Designing Student Projects for Global Readiness
• How To Prepare Globally Competent Students
• How to Humanize Learning in the Classroom with 3 Global Issues
• Smart Review | The Global Education Guidebook
• Building Global Awareness Through Student Names
• 3 Ways to Participate in Global Collaboration Day 2017
• How Educators Can Best Support International Students
• Utilizing Technology to Build Global Learning and SEL
• Globally Connecting Learners Through Project-Based Learning
• 3 Quick Tips and 40+ Resources for Globalizing Your Learner Experiences

Resources for EdLeaders

• Educating for Global Competence: 6 Reasons, 7 Competencies, 8 Strategies, 9 Innovations
• 5 Best Practices to Globalize Your School
• For School Improvement, Network Globally
• Getting Smart Podcast | Global Competency in Kentucky
• An All-Girls School Takes Computer Science to the Next Level With Global Collaboration
• How World Language Learning and Global Competence Complement Each Other

We like to think that we’re pretty globally minded here at Getting Smart, but we know that we still have a long way to go. We encourage you to join us in our effort to explore ways to develop a more empathetic, open-minded and accepting society through global education. Onward and upward!

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