I've always been wowed by the work of Martin Luther King, but never really thought of him as globally-minded. When I visited his monument in Washington D.C. , I was interested to find this quote about "transcending our race, our tribe, our class, our nation" and developing a "world perspective". This is exactly the motivation behind my teaching and the ideas of global education.
One of the exciting parts of my school year was receiving the Teachers for Global Education fellowship from IREX and the State Department. I have always taught about the world in every Social Studies course, but especially when I taught World History. This fellowship allowed me to see if I really was doing global education and how I could make my classroom even more focused on global competencies.
The online class was a fantastic chance to read about theories, philosophies and aspects of global education and expand my understanding. But the really exciting part was to travel to Washington D.C. and meet 70 other teachers who also were doing global work in their classrooms from the History classroom to Math to Science. Meeting this group of teachers and hearing their wonderful ideas was an amazing experience. |
AuthorDana Van Tilborg is a High School Social Studies/History teacher in Denver, Colorado. Archives
August 2014
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