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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN WITH AN EQUITY LENS

Presenter: Erin Austin, NBCT

French teacher, Poudre High School, Fort Collins, CO

Author of The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources

Twitter: @Erin-EH-Austin LinkedIn: Erin (Hoffman) Austin email: onygomadame@gmail.com

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AGENDA

Background
Global Connection Plan
What about the naysayers?
Creating Globally-Competent Teachers
Q&A

MY GOAL:

Each participant will walk away with one new idea they can take back to their school and build from to create their own Global Connection Plan in their department or school.

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MY BACKGROUND

In education:

teaching since 2002
MN/CO
3 levels (elem, middle, high)
2 subjects (French, Art)
K-12 French, K-12 Art
B.A. in French, Art Ed.
M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction
grad certificates in French Studies and Gifted, Creative & Talented Ed.
author of The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources

In global education:

leader of student travel since 2004
NEA Foundation Class of 2018 Global Education Fellow
contributing author of 12 Lessons to Open Classrooms and Minds to the World by Dr. Fernando Reimers
Global Education 101 (IREX), 2019
Educating Global Citizens (HGSE), 2019
Think Tank on Global Education (HGSE), 2021
presenter at CIEE International Education & Exchange Summit, 2021

What was that SPARK?

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WHAT IS GLOBAL EDUCATION?

According to the Asia Society, a globally-competent student can:

1. Investigate the World

2. Recognize Perspectives

3. Communicate Ideas

4. Take Action

Global Education is inextricably linked to the Sustainable Development Goals

First, discuss with a neighbor or group near you:�

What does Global Education mean to you?��Why this work is important for kids?

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GLOBAL EDUCATION:

Global Education isn’t just learning about the world; it’s learning with and from the world.

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN: EARLY STAGES

Goals:

Provide opportunities for students to interact on a global level
Provide opportunities for students to use their language skills with native speakers who live in other countries
Increase students’ global competence
Do #1-3 with an equity lens

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN: EARLY STAGES

Consider:

experiences students lead; experiences students take in
local, national, global
range of price points
start with what I already had

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN: EARLY STAGES

Is this equitable?

Does this create global-ready students?

	Students Lead	Students Take In
Low-cost	Hosting Program Int’l Student panel	Int’l Student panel
$$$	?	Taking students abroad

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN

Hosting (QR)
WL Story Time/WL Day at the Zoo
Newcomer panel (handout)
ePals (QR)
Flipgrid (QR)
Letter-writing campaign
Empatico (QR)

	Students Lead	Students Take In
Low-cost
$$$

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN

Newcomer panel (handout)
Family stay w/ study abroad (QR)
Continuing study scholarships (QR)
ePals (QR)
Flipgrid (QR)
Trip abroad scholarship
SDG units (QR)

	Students Lead	Students Take In
Low-cost
$$$

How are we similar?

How are we different?

How are we interconnected?

What does this country do well?/Where can we learn?

Where does this country struggle?/How can we provide an example?

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN

Global Volunteers (QR)
Global Leaders (QR)

	Students Lead	Students Take In
Low-cost
$$$

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN

Family stay with study abroad (QR)

ways to make it cheap/free

VR “trips”

ways to make it free

Student trips abroad

ways to make it cheap/free

	Students Lead	Students Take In
Low-cost
$$$

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CREATING A GLOBAL CONNECTION PLAN

Is this more equitable?

Does this create global-ready students?

Does this allow students to learn with the world?

	STUDENTS LEAD	STUDENTS TAKE IN
LOW-COST	Hosting WL Story Time/French Day at the Zoo Newcomer panel ePals/Flipgrid Empatico Letter-writing campaign	Newcomer panel Family stay w/ study abroad Continuing study scholarships ePals/Flipgrid Trip abroad scholarship SDG units
$$$	Global Volunteers Global Leaders	Family stay with study abroad Student trips abroad

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WHAT ABOUT THE NAYSAYERS?

There’s always “that guy”…

that board member…

that parent…

that administrator…

that community member…

that student…

Comment	Rebuttal/Solution
It’s too expensive!	Start with ideas that are free or low-cost.
Why focus globally? This is anti-American!	Only 2 of our top 5 trade partners are English-speaking…and one of them is only partially English-speaking. Global readiness helps fuel American capitalism. The is a safety issue, both personally and nationally. The more we know about the world, the safer we are in it because we’re better prepared.

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GLOBAL-READY TEACHER FORMATION

Having a globally-ready teacher fits the “students takes in/low-cost” quadrant
It’s hard to teach students to be globally-ready if we’re not globally-ready ourselves
Options galore!

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GLOBAL-READY TEACHER FORMATION: �LOW-COST

Take students abroad
Read! (virtual book club options, ICLS)
Global Learning Fellowship (NEA Foundation) (QR)
Global Education 101 (IREX) (QR)
Teachers for Global Classrooms (IREX/Fulbright) (QR)
Pulitzer Center Teacher Fellowship ($) (QR)
National Geographic Teacher Certification (QR)
Social media: groups, hashtags
Asia Society, World Savvy (QR)
Travel hacking
NEA Foundation grants

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GLOBAL-READY TEACHER FORMATION: (POSSIBLE) HIGH(ER)-COST

Travel! (There’s always travel hacking…)
Educating Global Citizens (Harvard Graduate School of Education, $149) (QR)
Think Tank on Global Education (HGSE, $595) (QR)
Graduate programs
Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) (QR)
Fund for Teachers (grants) (QR)
Qatar Foundation International (QR)

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Q&A TIME

Thank you for attending!

Please feel free to connect after the session:

LinkedIn: Erin (Hoffman) Austin
Twitter: @Erin-EH-Austin
email: onygomadame@gmail.com