COIL Examples in Teacher Education

Sharing approaches that UMD Teacher Education students have used in different classes

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Presentation at: High-Impact Practices for Global Engagement, UMD Sept 27, 2019

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Helen Mongan-Rallis, Assoc. Prof of Education

What is “COIL”?

• Range of approaches—think of a spectrum rather than a single model

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Ongoing COIL work

• All students in Elementary Education & Early Childhood Education & students in our Educational Technology Certificate learn how to create COIL partnerships with teachers & classrooms in other places (US and international) and explore ways to engage in COIL activities. Students create and share their own COIL projects using real partners that they have researched online using, for example:
• Skype in the Classroom
• ePals
• iEarn
• Global Schools Net �

COIL unit for future

teachers

Just do it! Remember...

• COIL uses a range of approaches— pick what works for your context

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Resources

• Introduction to COIL by David Syring (for UMD- Univ. of Worcester COIL partnership). In this video Dr. Syring shares more about what COIL is, about his work, about UMD- University of Worcester partnerships, and about initiatives at the U of M.
• UMD COIL (and as part of this, Getting Started with COIL)
• SUNY COIL Center
• Examples of sites for connecting K-12 classes
• Skype in the Classroom
• ePals
• iEarn
• Global Schools Net