Global Education Presentation for administration

1. Connecting Harlem to the World
How Innovative Content Integration Fosters Student Success

2. Why
Teaching?
• Love of learning

3. Why
Teaching?
• Love of learning
• Commitment to
change

4. Why
Teaching?
• Love of learning
• Commitment to
change
• It’s fun!

5. Why
Traveling?
• To investigate the
world

6. Why
Traveling?
• To investigate the
world
• To explore
perspectives and
challenge myself

7. Why
Traveling?
• To investigate the
world
• To explore
perspectives and
challenge myself
• To bring what I
learn back to my
students

8. When Teaching Meets Traveling:
Teaching
• Love of learning
• Commitment to change
• It’s fun!
Traveling
• To investigate the world
• To explore perspectives
and challenge myself
• To bring what I learn
back to my students

9. A Global Approach
Global education is
integral to building 21st
century skills, and
teachers are the greatest
resource to empower
students as global
citizens.
Source: International Research and
Exchanges Board, Inc

10. A Global Approach
A globalized
curriculum is not a
new curriculum and
it does not happen
in isolation.

11. A Global Approach
A globalized
curriculum helps
students understand
the world through
disciplinary and
interdisciplinary
study that already
exists.
5th Grade trip to Yellowstone/Grand
Tetons National Parks: July 2012

12. A Global Approach
A globalized
curriculum allows
students to:
— Investigate the world

13. A Global Approach
A globalized
curriculum allows
students to:
— Investigate the world
— Recognize perspectives

14. A Global Approach
A globalized
curriculum allows
students to:
— Investigate the world
— Recognize perspectives
— Communicate ideas

15. A Global Approach
A globalized
curriculum allows
students to:
— Investigate the world
— Recognize perspectives
— Communicate ideas
— Take action
Source: ASIA Society

16. A Global Approach
Through a globalized
curriculum, students
understand that:
— We are interconnected
— We can all make a difference
— “When we share our
experiences, we get stronger
because we learn that being
different is ok. It’s cool!”
--PAII 4th Grade student Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax

17. How do I know this works?
— Students regularly and independently choose to
borrow books and DVDs from my own cross-
curricular library

18. How do I know this works?
— Students regularly and independently choose to
borrow books and DVDs from my own cross-
curricular library
— Selected students have done independent research
projects and/or have earned science/STEM
scholarships to summer programs

19. How do I know this works?
— Students regularly and independently choose to
borrow books and DVDs from my own cross-
curricular library
— Selected students have done independent research
projects and/or have earned science/STEM
scholarships to summer programs
— Parent feedback highlights “collaborative learning”
with children as “helpful,” “meaningful” and “fun”

20. How do I know this works?
— Students regularly and independently choose to borrow
books and DVDs from my own cross-curricular library
— Selected students have done independent research
projects and/or have earned science/STEM scholarships
to summer programs
— Parent feedback highlights “collaborative learning” with
children as “helpful,” “meaningful” and “fun”
— To date, an average of 91% of Promise Academy II
students pass their NYS Grade 4 Science Exams…a
higher rate than any other grade or subject

21. A Global Approach
ANY curriculum can be
globalized to:
— Investigate the world
— Recognize perspectives
— Communicate ideas
— Take action
Because that’s what our
students need and deserve
as 21st century learners.