The University of Kentucky’s Confucius Institute's K-12 Chinese Language, Culture Development and Enhancement Program can help educators bring innovative international programs into their community, while also building their school's Chinese program offerings
Apply now to host a Chinese guest teacher for the 2017-18 school year. Since 2007, the College Board Chinese Guest Teacher Program has placed more than 1,000 visiting teachers in hundreds of schools nationwide.
Oldham County's Lori Foster believes global education can be a dimension that runs throughout the entire scope of student learning.
Laurel County’s elementary school students are getting creative this school year with a new curriculum designed to bring out the inner artist in every world language learner.
This article is the first in a series of seven that will be published in the coming months, focusing on the core practices of world languages instruction. This series will try to open a window for world languages teachers, nontraditional world languages teachers and other educators as to what world languages education is about.
Students at Model Laboratory High School's Spanish Honors Society were tasked this year to create an original altar for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian as part of the museum’s Dia de los Muertos activities.
Model Laboratory High School instructor Ernest McClees said that by building a traditional Day of the Dead altar, his Spanish Honors Society students gave them the unique opportunity to discover the Spanish language.
While a global curriculum has many obvious intersections in most subject areas, the one content area that seems at odds is mathematics. But on a deeper examination, even mathematics can be infused with a global approach.
The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute (UKCI) will offer four one-day seminars in its China Studies for Kentucky Teachers program beginning in December. Topics will be Chinese religions and philosophies, Chinese art, Chinese literature and Chinese history. The seminars are designed to enrich social studies teachers’ knowledge of the topics so they can be integrated into their classrooms. The first [...]
Primary Source – a global learning provider – is conducting a free, online book discussion for educators 7-8:15 p.m. ET on Jan. 10.