Chapter 9: Developing Local Teachers' Skills for Addressing Ethno-Specific Drug Issues of Global Proportions.

Chapter 9 of the book "Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, & Politics" is presented. It describes the orientation and strategies when developing a professional development (PD) program to boost drug education in ethnoculturally and linguistically diverse schools. It aims to simulate and analyze pedagogical approach in the training program while addressing the influence of multicultural dimensions of globalization.