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Preparing Our Students for a Place in the World:

Internationalizing Michigan Education

 

Sponsored by:

Michigan State University
US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence
Confucius Institute
College of Education, Office of K-12 Outreach

Education Alliance of Michigan

Michigan Department of Education

March 6, 2007
Registration: 7:30 a.m.
Program: 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan

Toolkit Contents
There are four types of tools:

1. Information about the global skills students will need for the 21st Century

• Skills and Dispositions Linked to Global Competency: An Initial List

• Framework for 21st Century Learning  

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Facts about the Need

• Learning for the 21st Century: A Report and Mile Guide for 21st Century Skills

• Synopsis of Objectives for Students for the 21st Century

• Students who are globally aware

• Definitions and Concepts for Globalization

2. Guides for schools to infuse global/international education into the curriculum

• Global Education Checklist for Teachers, Schools, School Systems and State Education Agencies

• Education for Global Citizenship: A Guide for Schools

3. Annotated resource lists for global and international education

• Sources of Teaching Materials on Globalization

• Sources that explore issues on globalization

• Sources of news stories on global issues

• Additional Resources

4. Resources and activities to develop intercultural competencies in your school and community

• Intercultural Competence

• Intercultural Hypothesis

• The Stages of Intercultural Competence

• Contrasting Values and Cultural Patterns

• Some Intercultural Communication Stumbling Blocks

• Checklist for Intercultural Communication

• Attitudes toward Difference

• An Asian View of Cultural Differences

• Overview of the Contact Hypothesis (Yehuda Amir)

• Communication Styles

• Understanding Culture

• Understanding Cultural Differences

• Identifying Aspects of Culture

• Exploring Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg

• Scenarios for reflection/discussion

• Playeros and Wizardos – Simulation game

• Intercultural learning resources
   

Second Annual Internationalizing Michigan Education Conference: Building Bridges from Michigan to the World

Presentations and Tools:

• The International Baccalaureate and International Academy and You

• International Baccalaureate Seminar

• Including Voices from the World Through Global Citizenship Education-Article

• Learning about India - Resources

• Moving to a 21st Century Framework

• MSU Outcomes for Liberal Learning and Global Competency Skills

• The Algeria-US School Linkages Program - E3Link

• Using Cultural Universals as an Approach for Revitalizing Elementart Social Studies

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