A joint program of BigPictureSmallWorld and Global Education Motivators
The Global Education Lab
is an information packed full-day workshop on global education for teachers and administrators. The Lab 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.
- 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 and other topics.
- A second CD ROM with ten short global education related movies. To preview any of these, go to www.bigpicturesmallworld.com
- Real Lives 2010, the brand new version of the award winning software that allows your students to live a life in any country in the world. See www.educationalsimulations.com for exciting details on what you can do with this program.
- 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— From Globalization to Global Citizenship, Integrating Global Ed Into Your Curriculum, Bringing the World Into Your Classroom Through Videoconferencing, Global Education Service Learning, Global Problem Solving, Working with the UN, Global Education Funding Sources, and other topics.
- Post-workshop support for locating schools for communication exchanges, discounts for GEM video conferences, priority selection for UN based conferences, and other products and services notification.
Cost and Scheduling
Cost of attending the Global Education Lab is $195 for one educator, or $185 for two or more from the same school. For school districts and other educational groupings of 10 to 25 or more teachers the tuition cost is $180 for each participant. Partial scholarships are available in special circumstances. To schedule a Global Education Lab for your school or district, call 610-566-0156 or email info@bigpicturesmallworld.com.
For More Information
Global Education
Lab
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