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Teachers for Global Classrooms - Teach

Over the course of the program participants learned all about the global competencies, and what it takes to incorporate ideas of global citizenship and impactful curriculums into their own teaching. The sections below include various resources, strategies, lessons, and materials to incorporate the ideas into your own classroom.

International Learning Resources

Below is a collection of resources and organizations that I would personally suggest to incorporate global competencies in your own classroom.  A good place to start is the "Traveling As A Teaching Tool" presentation page in which I have more information on organizations dedicated to working to provide travel opportunities to teachers.
Traveling as a Teaching Tool
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Opportunity for social studies teachers to travel to Germany to learn more about the country to incorporate topics into their own teaching. 
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The National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship is a teacher travel opportunity to some of the most remote  places in the planet as a professional development  opportunity. 
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A teacher professional development opportunity meant to encourage teaching for global classrooms in conjuncture with thee U.S. Department of state..
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Collection of resources connected to the teaching of polar topics. Great for looking at how the polar regions affect life and events around the world.
OXFAM: Global Citizenship Guides
Curated Global Learning Materials
U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

Local Resources

The materials listed below are specifically meant to encourage  local action. They are meant to increase teachers' own understanding of how they can encourage  global competencies among their own students with local actions and teaching.
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The Geographic Educators of Nebraska website has a number of resources available for the teaching of social studies topics on a local scale but connects them to international topics and ideas. 

The resources on this site are  especially helpful for teaching  the concept of scale. 
Global Competency in Geographic Education
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Global Competency Continuum 
The Global Learning Continuum is a  great way to self assess your own strengths and weaknesses in the global competencies to  build your own global classroom
U.N. The Lazy Person's Guide to Saving the World
List of ways that you can engage global affect on a local level.
FTGC SDGs and Taking Action Resource Collection
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Global Education Unit & Lesson Plans

This three week Unit is geared towards students understanding that individual actions, both large and small, can have a significant impact towards achieving the goals as set out in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. An overarching activity that will span the entirety of the unit will be a competition to challenge students to address and document their own actions, and how they are personally able to change their own behaviors for a global benefit. Regular check-ins will take place throughout the progress of the activity, and along the way we will learn about examples of individual people and organizations in class that were able to create meaningful change in their own communities. An overarching goal of this unit will be to empower students to see themselves as agents of positive change in the world.
Global Responsibility: Individual Action for Global Benefit Lesson Plan
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Lesson Plan
Unit Resources (Google Drive)

Sample Courses with Global Competencies

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A pre-made course I have made with lessons and resources on international issues. 
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An international relations course I've  made with a focus on global environmentalism.

Global Standards

Below is a series of standards to use in the teaching of global citizenship, global competencies, and standards more specific to the teaching of social studies.
Global and Cultural Competency
U.S. Department of Education's site for the Global and Cultural Competencies. A  great place to start to see what it means to include global education into your own classes.
Introduction to Global Citizenship
Standard Guidelines for the incorporation of the ideas of global citizenship into a social studies classroom.
C3 Standards for Social Studies
National guiding standards for the teaching of Social Studies as established by the National Council of Social Studies.
National Geography Standards
Specific Standards for the teaching of geography as established by a collection of organizations including the National Council of Geographic Education and National Geographic
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  • Home
  • Geography Resources for Teachers
    • Global Studies Resources
    • Human Geography Resources
    • World Geography Resources
  • Incorporating GIS into 9-12
    • GIS in a STEM Curriculum >
      • GIS&T Modules
    • Geographic Information Systems Resources
  • Topics in Geography
    • Examining the Arctic: Iceland >
      • Examining the Arctic: Blog
    • Modern Germany
    • Prairie Restoration
    • Teaching Global Competence >
      • TGC Study >
        • TGC Resources
      • TGC Travel >
        • TGC Blog
      • TGC Teach >
        • Geography Resources for Teachers
    • Topics in African Geography
  • Presentations
  • Mission