Week 7 Resources

Annotations
Global Education Partnership (2009). Retrieved from: http://www.discoveryglobaled.org/who.html#oldtab1
This site, run by Discovery Education, provides information about the Global Education Partnership. This program provides underprivileged countries with information about educating students, using mediums such as TVs, and providing teachers with training about how to use television as a learning tool. I think that this program is an excellent way for the U.S. to help countries in need. This site can be used in the classroom to help students understand the differences in education across the world.

CISV International (2008). Retrieved from: http://www.cisv.org/index.html
This site is an organization of a global community of volunteers who create opportunities for children to interact with children from other areas of world in the programs that they offer. Programs include camps that promote global friendship and range in age groups, from age eleven through twenty-five plus. The programs offered seem like a great way to get students to interact with students from many different countries in person. The only information that I couldn’t find was where these camps are located.

The Choices Program. Retrieved from: http://www.choices.edu/index.php
This is a program, through Brown University, that has a mission of empowering students with the skills and knowledge based to become global citizens who are able to address international issues through dialogue and other means. There is a great wealth of information for teachers to use in their own classrooms, in addition to professional development opportunities.