GLOBAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
COST-EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR EDUCATING GLOBALLY COMPETENT
STUDENTS
(Additional Resources)
Training
Teacher Training
o NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit
professional association dedicated to international education. The association
provides services to international educators and their institutions to encourage
international education and exchange. NAFSA’s “Events and Training” page lists
its professional development programs, conferences, and workshops for educators
teaching international education:
http://www.nafsa.org/eventsandtraining/default.aspx
o World Savvy is a non-profit organization that supports K-12 global education.
World Savvy offers professional development workshops and institutes in the
New York City metropolitan area for individual educators, administrators,
cultural institutions and associations to develop global competency
(http://worldsavvy.org/professional-development/).
Teaching Resources
o Concern Worldwide US is an affiliate of Concern World Wide, a nongovernmental, international, humanitarian organization founded in 1968 and
dedicated to the reduction of suffering and the elimination of extreme poverty.
Concern Worldwide US seeks to teach students and educators about global issues
through in-classroom support and training. http://gcc.concernusa.org/educatorresources/
o Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a non-profit organization, think-tank,
and publisher exploring international affairs and issues. CFR provides free
teaching modules published by CFR publication authors to be used in conjunction
with matching CFR publications: http://www.cfr.org/educators/modules.html. For
general inquires about the educational resources CFR provides, contact
educators@cfr.org.
o National Geographic Society is a National Geographic service founded in 1888
to educate audiences about the planet. National Geographic Education provides
free educational resources for teachers to encourage geo-literacy:
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education?ar_a=1
o Primary Source is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting history and
humanities education by connecting educators to people and cultures throughout
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the world Primary Source offers educational and curriculum resources for K-12
teachers: http://primarysource.org/resources
o Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies is a national
educational organization offering teacher resources, lesson plans, and professional
development workshops: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Activities
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Games
o Taking IT Global is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young
people to understand and act on the world's greatest challenges in order to create a
more inclusive, peaceful and sustainable world. Taking IT Global’s interactive
and educational games expose students to real-world problems related to
international affairs: http://www.tigweb.org/games/
o United Nations is a non-profit, non-governmental organization. Its Cyber School
Bus website was created to promote education about international issues as well
as the United Nations. The UN’S Cyber School Bus games mainly address global
issues: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/qui.html
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Activities
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Games
o Makes You Think a range of socially positive online interactive games and
simulations dealing with global warming and climate control:
http://makesyouthink.net/mission/
o Taking IT Global is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young
people to understand and act on the world's greatest challenges in order to create a
more inclusive, peaceful and sustainable world. Taking IT Global’s interactive
and educational games expose students to real-world problems related to
international affairs: http://www.tigweb.org/games/
o United Nations is a non-profit, non-governmental organization. Its Cyber School
Bus website was created to promote education about international issues as well
as the United Nations. The UN’S Cyber School Bus games mainly address global
issues: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/qui.html
HIGH SCHOOL
Activities
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
Games
o “World Without Oil” is a game that simulated the first 32 weeks of a global oil
crisis and collected submitted chronicles from people all over the world who
imagined their alternate reality in an oil crisis (http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/).
Teachers can use the game to teach students about resource issues using lesson
plans provided by the “World Without Oil” team
(http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/metateachers.htm)
o Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to people and organizations every year
since 1901, with a few exceptions such as during World War II. The Nobel Peace
Prize games educates students on Noble Prize-awarded discovery or work:
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/peace/
o Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Related has been awarded to people and
organizations every year since 1901, with a few exceptions such as during World
War II. The 1977 Prize in Economics was awarded for a theory showing that
countries engage in and benefit from trade if their production resources differ
from each other. The “Trade” game demonstrates this concept for students:
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/economics/trade/
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