Date: January 15, 2011
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Host: University of Pennsylvania National Resource Centers: South Asia Center, African Studies Center, Center for East Asian Studies, and the Middle East Center
The Global Education Lab
is an information-packed full-day workshop on global education for teachers and administrators. The Workshop is a hands-on intensive that provides you with everything from global perspectives to lesson plans and supplementary materials for the next day’s classroom— delivered by educators with over 60 years of global education experience.
The Purpose
of the Global Education Lab is to provide teachers and administrators with the information and experience they need to establish a new global education program, deepen and enrich existing programs, and to provide an inspiring and invigorating intellectual experience.
Deliverables
By attending the Global Education Lab you will get:
- Continuing professional development credits from the University of Pennsylvania.
- A DVD packed with over $1,000 worth of the latest books and reports from the UN and dozens of other international agencies on the state of the world, energy, climate, food, water, economy, population, education, health, human rights and other topics, PLUS dozens of lessons plans, curricular materials, ten short global education related movies and other global education materials.
- Ten global education classroom activities you can do the next day at your school.
- Two global ed lesson plans tailored to your curriculum and class—developed by you using our GlobalEd Templates.
- Handouts, Power Points, lesson plans, and links to hundreds of online global education resources, games, and simulations.
- Presentations on Global Education 101: Students and Global Citizenship; Integrating Global Ed Into Your Curriculum; Bringing the World Into Your Classroom Through Videoconferencing (with live video conference demo); UPenn Resource Centers—What They Can Do For You; Working with the UN; Programs that Support Your Global Studies Program; Student On-Line Collaborative Writing Application Across Cultures; Global Education Funding Sources, Online Global Education Materials and other topics.
- Cost: $120 for one educator; $95 for one than one from same school.
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