Think Tank on Global Education: Empowering Global Citizens

Overview

While global education itself is not a new concept, recent world events underscore the importance of teaching students what it means to live and thrive as a global citizen, and during the past five years we have seen the rapid production of resources for supporting teachers in this endeavor.

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Think Tank on Global Education invites educators to be at the forefront of curriculum development and strategy to advance global competence in classrooms, schools, districts, and communities. Participants will explore a variety of frameworks for organizing student learning with a focus on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals to consider the kinds of competencies that students and teachers will require to advance those goals.

Program Details

During this two-day institute, you will hear from educators who have been leaders and innovators in implementing global education. You will work in groups to: devise curriculum, respond to colleagues’ work, and begin to build a network of improvement, all with the goal of preparing young people to address the world’s most pressing problems. 

Faculty will include Darla Deardorff, Executive Director, Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) and Research Scholar at Duke University, and Veronica Boix Mansilla, Principal Investigator at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Prior to attending the Institute at Harvard, participants will complete online activities, becoming familiar with introductory concepts related to global competency as well as a self-assessment (to be completed with their team or colleagues at home). This pre-work will then be used as the basis for developing their strategy to advance global education during the program.

Objectives

• Assess your global citizenship practice using tools from Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons prior to attendance — and build a strategy with other participants during the institute to advance global education throughout your school or education system
• Devise curriculum which capitalizes on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals
• Explore what are called “signature pedagogies” in global education and learn how exemplary teachers design signature learning experiences
• Collaborate with colleagues to design professional development activities that promote global competencies for teachers
• Solicit feedback on your problems of practice and offer feedback to your colleagues through the institute’s Consultancy – an engaging protocol that allows peers to share their problems of practice
• Co-create a statement of what you know, believe, and plan to do to advance global citizenship education in your education setting, thereby deepening your global education work and the spirit in which that work is widely known

Who Should Attend

• K-12 educators invested in global education, including those currently working to increase students’ global competencies and those new to this effort
• School teams comprised of teachers, curriculum directors, instructional coaches, and principals
• Teams comprised of school and district leaders
• Teacher educators
• Nonprofit leaders who collaborate with districts and schools

Fees & Policies

Participants receive a certificate of participation and a letter confirming clock hours of instruction. Payment or a purchase order must be received within 30 days of program acceptance, or upon receipt of the invoice if acceptance is within 30 days prior to the start of the program. Click here for more information on payment and financial aid.

Please click here for more information on our on-campus and online refund and withdrawal policies.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education reserves the right to change faculty or cancel programs at its discretion. In the unlikely event of program changes, the school is not responsible for non-refundable travel arrangements or other planning expenses incurred.