Global Learning and World Languages
Every educator should consider how much the world beyond the classroom, neighborhood, state and country will impact each student. Each of their future endeavors will involve a touch with a perspective different than his or her own and educators can help prepare students to be successful with those experiences. Fostering lifelong learning and globally-conscious students can happen when the educators infuse global ideas into their classroom. From decorating with travel mementos to inviting in guest speakers with diverse backgrounds to utilizing internationalized content, every teacher can have an impact. IDOE is glad that you have taken the first step to learn more about global learning and access the many resources and tools available to help bring global learning to life in your classroom.
Professional Development
Content-Specific Global Learning Guide: The document below is a collaborative document with the ideas and expertise of the IDOE content area specialists. This document walks a teacher through how and why to integrate global learning concepts into the classroom and gives examples and resources in each content area. There is an FAQ section at the end of the document to help teachers overcome any roadblock standing in their way of creating global-ready graduates from kindergarten through graduation.
- Content-Specific Global Learning Guide – IDOE’s Global Journey
Blendspace: A blendspace is an online module with presentation materials, videos, links and documents embedded all related to a particular topic.
Symbaloo Webmix: A Symbaloo webmix is a single webpage that one can bookmark where a series of links can be housed and organized surrounding a particular topic. When the author updates the webmix, anyone with the link will see the updated version.
Internationalizing the Indiana Academic Standards (IASI)
In conjunction with Indiana University, Bloomington and with support from the Longview Foundation, the Indiana Academic Standards have been edited and formatted to include a series of suggestions for infusing global content into the teaching of the standards in the areas of English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies in each grade level or course K-12.
Elementary
English/
Language Arts
Grades K-6 (click on image to the left)
Mathematics
Grades K-6 (click on image to the left)
Science
Grades K-6 (Coming in late Fall 2017)
Social Studies
Grades K-6 (click on image to the left)
Secondary
English/
Language Arts
Grades 6-12 (click on image to the left)
Mathematics
Grades 6-12 (click on image to the left)
Science
Grades 6-12 (Coming in late Fall 2017)
Social Studies
Grades 6-12 (click on image to the left)
Additional Global Learning Resources
- Asia Society – Going Global Guidebook
- Asia Society – Lesson Plans & Resources
- Global and International Education in Social Studies
- Global Youth Institute in Indiana
- DiscoverE Global Marathon: Free virtual conference about engineering and technology with speakers from around the world.
- Partnership for 21st Century Learning – Teacher Guide to K-12 Global Education Grade Level Indicators
- AFS-USA’s Teacher’s Toolbox – Intercultural Learning Lesson Plans
- iEarn - Collaborative Project Ideas
