The American Forum for Global Education
http://www.globaled.org/
The American Forum for Global Education promotes the education of American youth for responsible citizenship in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.csis.org/
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) seeks to advance global security and prosperity in an era of economic and political transformation by providing strategic insights and practical policy solutions to decision-makers. CSIS serves as a strategic planning partner for the government by conducting research and analysis and developing policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change.
The Choices Program
http://www.choices.edu/
The Choices Program is a national education program designed to introduce substantive international content into the secondary school curriculum. It is a core program of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, a research institute that was established in 1985 to analyze contemporary global problems and develop initiatives to address them.
Facing History and Ourselves
http://www.facing.org/campus/reslib.nsf
Since 1976, Facing History has been engaging students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the choices they confront in their own lives.
Facing the Future: People and the Planet
http://www.facingthefuture.org/
Facing the Future develops young people’s capacity and commitment to create thriving, sustainable, and peaceful local and global communities. We do this by equipping teachers and schools with the tools and strategies to help students:
- Understand global issues and sustainability in a way that shows the connections between population, environment, consumption, poverty and conflict
- Develop a global perspective
- Learn critical thinking skills
- Be inspired to take personal action
Global Citizen 2000: Education for a Global Society
http://gc2000.rutgers.edu/GC2000/index.htm
The goal of Global Citizen 2000 is to produce curricular modules that will enable high school teachers to increase the quantity and quality of teaching about the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and globalization itself in schools in New Jersey and throughout America. We believe that fostering area studies on the secondary level will provide students with an enhanced understanding of globalization, expanded opportunities to participate in global society, and encouragement to pursue academic programs and careers relating to area studies. We expect to nurture the informed citizenry and the cadre of experts the United States needs to shape its relations with all the regions of the world in the next generation.
Global Teachnet
http://www.rpcv.org/pages/globalteachnet.cfm
One goal of the Peace Corps is to bring a global perspective back to the United States. The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) - the network of alumni, family and friends of the Peace Corps - launched Global TeachNet (GTN) to directly implement that global perspective in U.S. classrooms.
Global Schoolhouse
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/index.html
Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN), founded in 1984 by teachers who believed that in a connected world students need a global perspective, brings together youth online from 194 countries to explore community, cultural and scientific issues that prepare them for the workforce and help them to become responsible and literate global citizens. Global SchoolNet's free membership program provides project-based learning support materials, resources, activities, lessons and special offers from Global SchoolNet partners.
iEARN - International Education and Research Network
http://www.iearn.org/
Started in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Institute of International Education
http://www.iie.org/
IIE, an independent non-profit organization founded in 1919, is a world leader in the exchange of people and ideas. The Institute administers over 200 programs serving more than 20,000 individuals each year.
InternationalEd
http://www.internationaled.org/
Today's students will be the citizens and leaders of the 21st Century, heirs to a world that grows smaller and more interconnected everyday. For the United States to continue to prosper, all students must have the opportunities to learn about other world regions and languages. The world will demand it of them--we need to demand it of our education system.
International Studies and World Area Resources for Educators
http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/internat.html
Online resources at UC Berkeley.
International Studies Association
http://www.isanet.org/
A group of scholars and practitioners founded the International Studies Association (ISA) in 1959 to pursue mutual interests in international studies. Representing eighty countries, ISA has over four thousand members worldwide and is the most respected and widely known scholarly association in this field.
Southern Center for International Studies
http://www.southerncenter.org/
The Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS), founded in 1962, is a non-profit educational institution based in Atlanta, Georgia. The primary mission of SCIS is to internationalize the thinking of the American public. In accomplishing this mission, SCIS seeks to inform. It does not take political positions or attempt to influence policy.
Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/index.html
The Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration was developed to help teachers use the Internet to "reach out" globally. These materials were prepared as part of the Department of Education's International Education Initiative.
United Nations – Global Teaching and Learning Project
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/
The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization. The Global Teaching and Learning Project is part of the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information.
The Virginia Center for the Teaching of International Studies - VCU
http://www.vacenter.org/
The Virginia Center for the Teaching of International Studies is a partnership between the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University and the World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond. Its central purpose is to enhance the teaching of international studies in Virginia's middle and high schools.
WhoYouShouldKnow.com: A New World Leader Every Weekday
http://www.whoyoushouldknow.com
WhoYouShouldKnow.com is a FREE educational Web site that provides a daily profile of an international leader or a person of significant global influence. The primary focus of WhoYouShouldKnow.com is to highlight international leaders as well as key business and humanitarian figures. Each weekday WhoYouShouldKnow.com features a different International leader and his or her home country. The featured profile contains a picture of the leader, a map of the country’s location in the world, a more detailed map of the country, as well as the country’s flag, links to other important statistics and factual data about the person and the country.
Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
The Factbook was created as an annual summary and update to the encyclopedic NIS (National Intelligence Survey) studies. The first classified Factbook was published in August 1962, and the first unclassified version was published in June 1971. The NIS program was terminated in 1973 except for the Factbook, map, and gazetteer components. The 1975 Factbook was the first to be made available to the public with sales through the US Government Printing Office (GPO). The Factbook was first made available on the Internet in June 1997. The year 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency and the 64th year of continuous basic intelligence support to the US Government by The World Factbook and its two predecessor programs.
Global Education Database
http://qesdb.cdie.org/ged/index.html
This site is sponsored by the Office of Education of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The GED is a repository of international education statistics compiled from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). USAID plans to update this online database as new data become available.
International Information Programs
http://usinfo.state.gov/
USINFO delivers information about current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture. This site is produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs. Links to other internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein.
Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.
The United States Institute of Peace
http://www.usip.org/index.html
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, non-partisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help:
- Prevent and resolve violent international conflicts
- Promote post-conflict stability and democratic transformations
- Increase peace-building capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.
The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by directly engaging in peace-building efforts around the globe.
World Affairs Councils of America
http://www.worldaffairscouncils.org/
The World Affairs Councils of America is the largest international affairs non-profit in the United States. Started in 1918, the council system has 484,000 members and participants, 87 councils, and 26 affiliates. Councils operate on membership dues, corporate sponsorships, grants, in-kind donations, fundraising events, and fee-for-service activities. The council system has the biggest international affairs speakers’ program in the country with over 2,500 events each year.
The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
http://www2.etown.edu/vl/
This section of the WWW Virtual Library system is an Internet directory of over 2600 annotated links to high-quality sources of information and analysis in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics. Most of the sites are in English and are carefully selected for their long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, authoritative information and analysis online. Each site is described only in general terms because of the typically rapid changes in the details of its contents.
Art
International Society for Education Through Art
http://www.insea.org/
InSea is the International Non-Governmental World Organization for Education through Art in Consultative Relations with UNESCO.
Asia
Ask Asia
http://www.askasia.org/
AskAsia.org is an online resource that helps visitors explore critical questions about Asia and global themes. The site features scholarly content about Asia and US-Asia relations; expert K-12 teaching and learning strategies; and useful learning resources, such as maps, photographs, art images, glossaries, timelines and more. It has been our practice for over a decade to bring scholars and master teachers together to create academically and pedagogically sound materials.
National Consortium for Teaching About Asia
http://www.nctasia.org/
The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), funded by the Freeman Foundation, is a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about Asia in world history, geography, social studies, and literature courses.
Launched in October 1998, this nationwide program is a collaboration of the East Asian Studies programs of five national institutions -- the University of Washington, the University of Colorado, Indiana University, Columbia University, and the Five College Center for East Asian Studies.
Islam
Council on Islamic Education
http://www.cie.org/
The Council on Islamic Education (CIE), founded in 1990, is a national, non-profit research institute and resource organization based in Fountain Valley, California. CIE is formally comprised of Muslim academic scholars of religion, history, political science, cultural studies, communications, education, and other fields, along with a full-time professional staff with expertise on matters related to U.S. education, civics, politics, the media, faith communities and other components of American society and the institutional system.
United Nations
Committee on Teaching about the UN
http://www.teachun.org/
The United Nations and its agencies have worked for many years to arouse local interest in the root causes of global problems, whether they are environmental, political, or economic. Though many problems have not been solved, much has been achieved to improve people’s lives. Educators face the challenge of instilling in our children a concern for global problems and arming them with the knowledge necessary to promote social change. No one country or generation can solve global problems alone. It is time that educators join with the United Nations and incorporate the U.N.’s resources and expertise into school curricula.
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epiirs/
Established in 2003 by the University and its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) promotes collaborative, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching on issues of global importance. Combining the activities and strengths of the University’s former Center of International Studies and Council on Regional Studies, PIIRS aims to integrate international and regional studies at the University into informed and coherent perspectives on global affairs. In the larger academic arena, PIIRS works to establish leadership in research on international and regional issues, creating links with leading universities worldwide to promote exchanges in these vital areas among faculty and students internationally.
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
http://spice.stanford.edu/
Since 1976 the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) has supported efforts to internationalize elementary and secondary school curricula by linking the research and teaching at Stanford University to the schools through the production of high-quality curriculum materials on international and cross-cultural topics. Housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, SPICE has produced over 100 supplementary curriculum units on Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the global environment, and international political economy. SPICE draws upon the diverse faculty and programmatic interests of Stanford University to link knowledge, inquiry, and practice in exemplary curriculum materials.
International Education - The State of New Jersey Department of Education
http://www.state.nj.us/education/international/
- To help students understand, connect to and act on critical global issues by integrating international perspectives into curricula in all core curriculum content standards areas with special emphasis on:
- World languages instruction that includes languages central to global literacy and that are important for future economic and security needs; and
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Social studies instruction that focuses on global issues and how to address them within the diverse social, political and economic contexts that exist worldwide.
- To connect student acquisition of international literacies to real world experiences both in New Jersey and beyond state and national borders.
- To enhance teacher capacity for international teaching excellence through pre-service education, professional development and opportunities for exchange and study abroad.
North Carolina in the World
http://www.ncintheworld.org/
North Carolina in the World is a statewide collaborative effort to strengthen K-12 international education. More than 100 North Carolina education, policy and business leaders are involved to help prepare students to thrive in the global marketplace of the 21st century. This international education resource center provides teachers with a launching point for teaching and learning on the web. Powered by LEARN NC, it provides annotated links to hundreds of quality websites, many with multimedia, searchable by region, instructional purpose, and appropriate grade level.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: International Education Council
http://dpi.wi.gov/cal/iecouncil.html
We live at a time of increased awareness of global connectedness. Wisconsin's citizens need to be globally literate, to understand the linkage of economies, peoples, and cultures around the world, and to function comfortably and effectively in languages and cultures other than their own. This is not a luxury, but a critical component of a 21st century education. Therefore, the Governor of Wisconsin and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction convene this Statewide International Education Council.
Best of History Web sites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/LessonPlans.shtml
Best of History Web Sites features categorized and annotated lists of links to hundreds K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages. Just scroll down most BOHWS pages and you will find an abundance of quality teaching resources.
Tip: Press ctrl and F (or apple and F on a Mac) to perform a keyword search of this page. To keyword search all Best of History Web Sites pages use the search engine located on the home page.
Daily Lesson Plans
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/globalhistory.html
New York Times daily lesson plans on a variety of topics.
Global Economics Curriculum Project
http://www.andover.edu/iap/gecp/lessonplans.htm
The global curriculum project is a collaborative project between the Andover Economics Project (AEP) and the International Academic Partnership (IAP) and includes considerable involvement by the Aga Khan Educational Services (AKES), a component of the worldwide Aga Khan Development Network. The basic description of Phase One (Ages 6-17) of the global economics curriculum project is the production of a set of 20 teaching units -- comprising 5 lesson plans per unit -- creating 100 lesson plans in economics education. There are 10 units for ages 6-11 and 10 units for ages 12-17 which develop appropriate, relevant, and grade-specific economics skills within the context of the global economy. The curriculum is globally-focused with attention given to a wide variety of economic systems and problems but equally importantly the units are based on clear principles of economics education. Using the US National Standards in Economics Education as a broad guide, the curriculum project has benchmarks at ages 11 and 17 which act as guides to when and how particular economics concepts are introduced and at what level of sophistication.
National Geographic Expeditions’ Lesson Plans
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/
The lesson plans on this site were written by educators and have been tested in the classroom. Together, they address all of the U.S. National Geography Standards, the five geography skills, and the main geographic perspectives.
Paul D. Coverdell - World Wise Schools – Peace Corps
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/
Enrich K–12 students with the dynamic cross-cultural classroom materials, literature, videos, lessons, ideas, and services provided free by the World Wise Schools program.
University of Denver International Studies Schools Association
http://www.du.edu/issa/lessonPlans.html
The lesson plans are organized according to grade level and academic discipline - Cultural Studies, Economics & Trade, Government & Politics, Geography, Environmental Studies, History, Human Rights, and General Interdisciplinary Global Studies.
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