Global Understanding in Action

Teaching students to become change-makers requires a strong foundation and meaningful interactions with global topics. This 4-week asynchronous online course explores critical global topics – human rights, educational access, and gender equity – through the lens of social action. Through readings, videos, interactive web-based activities, and discussion forums, you will become familiar with key issues related to these topics. You will examine case studies of how K-12 teachers have implemented curricular activities and projects to turn student learning into student action, and develop an action project to support students’ transformation from global learners to global citizens. You will then be able to use these cases as inspiration for integrating these themes into your own classroom teaching and school initiatives. 

Standards: [PS.1] Demonstrate civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions, [PS.3] Organize information and date from multiple primary and secondary sources, [PS.7] Determine next steps and take informed action as appropriate, [WHII.T6] The era of globalization, 1991-present, [WHII.T7] The politics of difference among people: conflicts, genocide, and terrorism, [NML.T1] Freedom of the press and news/media literacy, [NML.T5]Gathering and reporting information using digital media