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Global
Studies Outreach
for K-12 Educators
About Us
Global Studies
is actively involved in K-12 outreach. By providing educators
with the tools to integrate global content into the curriculum,
we hope to increase students' awareness of global issues and prepare
them for citizenship in an increasingly interconnected world.
Summer Teacher
Workshop | 23 to 27 June 2008
Global
Studies offers a weeklong teacher workshop in the summer. This
year's workshop
for k-12 educators will be held 23-27 June 2008 at Lowell Hall
on the UW-Madison campus. The workshop, planned in collaboration
with the Center
for European Studies, will be on New
and Emerging Migrations. More information will
be available in the coming weeks.
Curriculum
Development
Global Studies
has developed World Ecosystems Beyond Borders
(WEBB): An Environmental Curriculum for Wisconsin Students.
This exciting new outreach project seeks to help middle school
teachers bring global environmental issues to their science and
social studies classrooms. Our innovative curriculum units challenge
students to compare environmental issues faced by Wisconsin populations
with similar issues faced by communities abroad. Each unit examines
a specific environmental issue, such as water quality, dam construction,
and wildlife conservation, from local and global perspectives.
Global Studies
also collaborates with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction
at the UW-Madison in offering a Masters degree and Advanced Program
of Studies Certificate in Global
Studies, Teaching, and the Curriculum.
Cosponsoring
and Presenting at Conferences
Global
Studies co-sponsors and presents at conferences for K-12 educators,
such as the International
Children's Literature Celebration, International
Education Conference and WAMLE
(Wisconsin Association for Middle Level Education).
Global Studies -- as a member of the Wisconsin
International Outreach Consortium -- will be participated
in the 2008
Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies and International Education
Conference, held in Madison, 31 March - 1 April 2008.
Teaching
Resources/Library
Global
Studies provides resources for teaching about global issues. We
are currently building a library from which teachers around the
state can borrow videos, books, and curriculum guides.
Global Studies
Related Links for K-12 teachers
Some links
of interest include:
World
Languages Day (UW Language Institute)
On April
20, 2006, more than 700 Wisconsin high school students and teachers
will gather at the UW-Madison campus to experience for a day
what the University can offer them for a lifetime. The scope
of options offered at World Languages Day covers the globe,
from the Americas to Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
There will be 50 sessions to choose from at the UW's fifth-annual
World Languages Day.
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Mark
Lilleleht
Outreach Coordinator
Global Studies
301 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison WI 53706
Ph 608.265.6070
Fx 608.265.2633
outreach@global.wisc.edu
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