Implementation Guide: School Improvement through Global Education.

To aid high school classroom teachers as they develop and implement programs on global issues, the workbook presents suggestions on program procedures and on tailoring global education programs to meet individual school needs. The workbook begins by exploring global interdependence and stressing that major reasons for offering global education programs include: helping students prepare for life in the 21st century, exposing students to people and things to which they are not accustomed, and helping students recognize the value of different opinions. A major objective is to increase cooperative attitudes in the classroom as well as in relation to world affairs. Another section explains how teachers can review various types of global education programs (for example, those based on places and events, cultures, actors and interactors, and/or issues) to determine which emphases will contribute most to the program for their school. Also discussed are general process objectives which should be incorporated into all global education programs. These objectives include that the school district should approve the program, the staff should make decisions collectively, the program should be interdisciplinary, and students and teachers should work together to plan, implement, and evaluate the program. A final section outlines and explains how to elaborate on process objectives in areas of staff and administrative adoption/approval, school commitments and responsibilities, curriculum, and evaluation. (DB)