Apply for the Global Educator Digital Badge!
How prepared are you to foster global awareness in your students or support that in your classrooms or schools?The Global Educator Digital Badge provides an opportunity for educators to focus their professional development on developing their own global context and understanding of how to integrate global education throughout curricula. It also provides the opportunity to build global competency in students.The State Board of Education approved North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge (GEDB) is available for the following educator categories: Teacher, Teacher Leadership Specialist, Library Media Coordinator, Instructional Technology Facilitator, School Counselor, Career Development Coordinator, School Social Worker, School Psychologist, Speech-Language Pathologist, Instructional Central Office Staff, Principal/Assistant Principal, Superintendent. For more information on the Badge (SBE Policy, FAQs, Process Flyer, Implementation Guide, MOA), please visit our website or contact NCGlobalEducation@dpi.nc.gov.
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News & Updates
Culture Kit Updates from Carolina Navigators
Due to UNC’s recent change to remote classes, most of the intern staff that ships out culture kits are no longer on campus. Carolina Navigators is currently looking into possible solutions, and will keep stakeholders updated. View their website for more information.
Informational Webinar for the Learning through Languages High School Research Symposium
There will be an informational webinar on Monday, September 21, at 4:00 - 5:00 pm for teachers who are interested in learning more about the competition and registering a team. Register for this webinar.
The Learning Through Languages (LtL) High School Research Symposium is an opportunity for high school students to conduct and present research on global topics in their world language of study. Through LTL, students write a global research paper, give an oral presentation, and design a visual to demonstrate key research findings--all in the language they study! For more information, please visit the website, read answers to frequently asked questions, or watch this video about the program.
Professional Learning Opportunities & Resources
Are your students interested in connecting with peers in other parts of the world? Visit this website to find an updated list of several organizations and tools that can help you set up virtual exchanges. The first section includes resources that are primarily platforms for educator-designed projects, such as global literature reading groups, and are all free. The next group includes those that allow the option of self-designed or pre-developed curricula; and the last section includes resources that offer chances to connect globally with pre-developed curricula.
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for intensive language study abroad in summer 2021. View more information and apply. Applications are due Tuesday, November 17, 2020 by 8:00pm EST.
The CLS Program is a fully-funded intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 15 critical languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. Most CLS languages do not require previous study of the target language.
The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. The scholarship program covers international airfare, tuition, and all program costs, as well as meals and living accommodations, often with a host family. The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, and from a wide range of fields of study and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of the United States.
CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century's globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.
The CLS Program will host a series of webinars over the coming weeks for anyone who is interested in learning more about the program. View the calendar and registration.
Download a one-page CLS flyer. Questions? Email CLS@AmericanCouncils.org.
Fall 2020: Online Book Club for Educators
CERIS (the Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies) is offering an online book club on "Who Are the Uyghurs?" (about an oppressed Turkic minority in China) on Friday, November 6 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time. After registering, participants will receive a reading packet and a Zoom meeting link. The plight of the Uyghurs is arguably the single biggest human rights violation in the world today. Assistant Professor of History James Pickett (University of Pittsburgh) will facilitate a discussion using articles and chapters of books to shed light on the historical context and current conditions facing the Uyghurs of China. Register in advance to get your reading materials!
Free Maps from the Ancient World Mapping Center
This website includes a series of available maps that are available for free educational use (under the CC BY-NC 3.0 license). These maps are organized according to rough geographic regions.
#GoOpenNC Monthly Webinars
Join monthly webinars to learn more about #GoOpenNC. #GoOpenNC is our free collaborative platform for educators to share standards aligned resources and explore hubs of curated resources, including Global Education! Webinars will be one hour long and offered at 10am, 3pm, and 7pm to help you attend the session that best fits your schedule. Educators who attend a live webinar will receive a CEU certificate for 0.1 CEU that is recommended for Digital Learning Competency Credit. All webinars will be recorded and archived on our YouTube channel to rewatch as needed. Make sure you register today for upcoming webinars!
PBLWorks created this resource to provide a host of ideas, examples, and tools that can be used for remote learning.
Pear Deck in Language Classes
From Edutopia, this blog focuses on using Pear Deck in World Language Classes to set up engaging, interactive lessons on vocabulary, culture, and check on students’ well-being. This blog includes free Pear Deck templates to use!
These resources are designed to support world language faculty and instructors in high school to higher ed classrooms with strategies and resources for teaching world languages in an online format. They were designed specifically to support instructors who follow a task-based, proficiency-oriented approach of language instruction.
Topics include:
- general principles of online language teaching and online course design
- tools to teach grammar and vocabulary
- recommendations to engage students with the target language in interactive and communicative activities.
Each section includes short videos, powerpoint slides and assignments to engage you in developing your own approach to online or blended language instruction.
Connecting Conversations is a podcast that features conversations with UNC World View’s director, Charle LaMonica, and UNC faculty, K-12 and community college partners and expert presenters from a variety of global disciplines. After each podcast is aired a series of resources will be available. These resources will be posted with the news article corresponding to each episode and linked to beneath the media player as well as on this page.
Global Health: The Changing Prognosis is a two-day community college virtual program that features speakers, a panel, breakout sessions, and UNESCO intercultural competency training. 5 PDCH offered for successful completion of the program, and the registration fee is $45. The sessions will be offered via Zoom on November 5 - 6, 2020. View more details.
Contact Nicholas Allen, Program Coordinator, at nicka@unc.edu with questions.
Shared Narratives: The Power of Global Perspectives is a four-part virtual professional development series for K-12 educators of all disciplines being offered this fall. Individuals can register for all four or just one or two, and 0.5 CEU is offered for successful completion. Registration fee is $25 per program.
View the dates and links below for details and registration:
If you have any questions regarding these developments please contact Nicholas Allen, Program Coordinator, at nicka@unc.edu
UNC World View (@UNCWorldView) hosts weekly Twitter Chats on Wednesdays at 1pm EDT. Weekly chats bring educators together to discuss global issues and resources that can be used to integrate global themes in instruction. Educators are asked to review one featured resource ahead of each live chat. Resources may include a short film, article, podcast, poem or other resource that is available online. North Carolina K-12 and community college educators can earn Continuing Education Units (CEU) or Professional Development Contact Hours by participating!
To receive 1.0 CEU/ 10 PDCH you must:
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Review the featured resource for four chats. Resources are posted a week in advance via Twitter. Please follow @UNCWorldView and #WorldViewChats.
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Actively participate in four live Twitter chats by answering questions and responding to other participants. Weekly chats are 50 minutes long.
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Register as a participant seeking CEU by going to: Twitter Chat-CEU. Please note there is a $50 registration fee to receive CEU. There is no cost to participate in a Twitter chat if you do not want CEU/PDCH.
Complete this form and return to Kimberly Hall, kimcar@email.unc.edu at UNC World View.
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