To address the standard of communication and collaboration, a unit on race and culture took a global spin when students at an alternative high school connected with their peers across the world.
Because global education is a lens through which to view curriculum and instruction, it can (and should) be adapted to every content area and at every grade level. Please click here to see the detailed lesson referenced above as well as an example of how a global lens dramatically affected a standards-based ninth-grade English research unit.
The image above links to a presentation given at the Iowa Council for Social Studies Fall Conference and details a unit about Ms. Marvel: No Normal. This unit was co-created by me, a middle school art teacher from Chicago, and a middle school ELA teacher from Cape Cod, and it won the University of Arizona's Center for Middle Eastern Studies lesson plan award. In addition to a link to the entire unit, the presentation also details how a middle school social studies teacher (and fellow TGC alum) in Rhode Island taught the unit to her students.
The image above links to another unit, one based on Amnesty International's Write for Rights campaign. While the presentation in this unit was based on the 2019 campaign, the materials could be easily adaptable for the current campaign.
"Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to civilize and unify the earth and transform the human species into genuine humanity. The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding." |
Note: the creation and development of the Global Issues Project was not an individual effort. Rather, it was started by the English I team at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, and adapted by the English 9 team at Park Center IB World School in Brooklyn Park, MN. Thank you to Lindsey Smith, Maggie Walker, Joan Darr, Loan Nguyen, Mandy Vaughn, Sunni Hill, Tasha Moskowitz, Jackie Pieper, Anne Johnson, and Laurie Ganser, all of whom were instrumental in the creation of this unit.