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Teaching for Global Competence
Empowering students with cross-cultural understanding, critical thinking, and real-world problem-solving skills to navigate our interconnected world.
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Lesson Plans
See examples of lesson plans and activities for fostering global competencies.
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Going Glocal
Explore a presentation about fostering local-global connections in the classroom.
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Other Resources
Additional resources about global education, world language education and resources related to South Asia.
Activities & Lesson Plans
Global Education Unit Plan
This middle school Spanish unit plan about urban riverways was created as a part of the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms fellowship.
Global Problems, Local Solutions
This middle school Spanish unit plan focused on environmental justice and activism was created as a part of the Pulitzer Center Teaching Fellows program.
Using PZ Thinking Routines
This lesson example for younger grades created during the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms course uses the Project Zero Thinking Routine “Think, See, Wonder” as a way to explore the Mexican folk art of alebrijes.
Using Images to Enhance WL Teaching
This presentation was created as a strategy share for the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship. Meant to demonstrate how photographs can serve as learning tools in the world language classroom to build proficiency, its ideas can easily be adapted for use in the global education classroom.
The Importance of Local-Global Connections
This presentation was developed as a part of the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms program course.
Other Resources
- The Chicago History Museum offers exhibits related to the city’s history and communities.
- The Chicago Cultural Alliance is a consortium of local museums and cultural centers who represent Chicago’s diverse communities and heritage.
- Chicago Sister Cities provides opportunites to connect with Chicago’s 28 sister cities around the globe.
- Friends of the Chicago River offer place-based education opportunities for students to engage with the Chicago River.
- Urban Rivers operates the Wild Mile, another opportunity for students to engage in place-based, experiential learning along the Chicago River.
- The ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages are a critical point of beginning for any world language educator.
- The Klett Award for Sustainable Development Education in the world language classroom recognizes classrooms and programs that have incorporated the UN Sustainable Development Goals into their curriculum.
This book gives practical suggestions for world language teachers. Much of the book is centered around things like international pen pals and types of potential trips to take with students.
This book about global competence in the world language classroom releases on September 11, 2025. It focuses on EWL, or English as a World Language, learners.
- The South Asia Center at Syracuse University offers lesson plans, art collections, lending libraries and workshops and school visits for K-12 classrooms.
- Project Zero’s Thinking Routines offer different models for deeper thinking, perspective-taking, exploring art and images and global thinking.
- The National Geographic Explorer Mindset Framework is designed to encourage inquiry, foster curiosity and support action. Within the framework are listed attitudes, skills and knowledge to help students think like an Explorer.
- Every year the Symbolic Monarch Migration brings together classrooms from across North America to learn about monarch butterflies, their habitats, migration and the importance of conservation.
- The Global Read Aloud offers opportunities for connection with other classrooms through the reading of the same book(s) during the same six-week period.
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the participant’s own and do not represent the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, the U.S. Department of State, or IREX.