Service Learning And Global Coll 2

Service Learning and Global Collaboration Judy Huynh

Judy Huynh

6th grade teacher at Palo Community (19 years)

Social Studies department head/Math department head

Service Learning grant writer and coordinator (7 years)

M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction (MSU)

Attended Massey University (New Zealand) 1 year

4th grade teacher at Saigon International School (3 years)

ESL instructor at University of Saigon & private lessons (3 years)

Middle School Social Studies Teacher of the Year for Michigan (2004)

Global Education Teacher Trainer

Michigan Merit Curriculum project coach

Service Learning Professional Development Toolkit design team/trainer/curriculum development

Kids Can Make a Difference Advisory Board

Heifer International Curriculum Advisory Board & workshop presenter

iEARN cadre member/trainer

Fulbright-Hays GPA to Ecuador curriculum specialist

LATTICE Member

Global Education

Global education is learning about those issues that cut across national boundaries and about the interconnectedness of systems - ecological, cultural, economic, political, and technological. Global education involves perspective taking, seeing things through the eyes, minds, and hearts of others; and it means the realization that while individuals and groups may view life differently, they also have common needs and wants.

Robert Haney

Global Interdependence

Before you finish eating breakfast this morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured … We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If the world were a village of 100 people

63 would come from Asia

13 from Africa

12 from Europe

8 from S. America, Central America, & Caribbean

5 from North America

Less than 1 from Oceania

If the World Were 100 People

We would be among the 20 people who earn 89% of the world’s wealth

13 would suffer from malnutrition

13 would eat too much

20 would not have clean water

25 would have substandard housing

The richest 20 would consume 100 times more energy than the poorest 20

Quiz

Farmer’s Out of the Dell

Global Service Learning Projects

Refugee Pen Pals

Heifer International

Peace Corps Partnerships

iEARN

International Dinner

Empty Bowls

World Vision

Nyaka School

Projects with RESPECT

Letter Exchange Program

Soccer balls were sent in May, 2003

Shopping trip - December, 2003 - bought school supplies

Projects

Palo students sent bookmarks and stickers to pen pals

Mohomou sent bracelets and necklaces to Palo (These were sold at the International Dinner.)

Samuel (teacher) sent African dress to me.

Projects

Palo sent $1000 (from our International Dinner) to Mohomou to set up computer lab

LeValley United Methodist Church sent $1000 for lab

Projects

Sent video of “A Day in the Life of a Palo Student” in January, 2004

Sent video camera

Projects

Received video from Mohomou of “Day in the Life of”

Sent macrame friendship bracelets

Book drive with Belding Middle School

www.respectrefugees.org

Heifer International heifereducation.org

Learn about hunger and poverty in the world

Educate others

Fundraising

Read to Feed

GET IT!

Write ABC books

Tie quilt

Global Village

New Global Education Resource Kits available

Peace Corps Partnerships Peace Corps World Wise Schools

Correspond with a Peace Corps volunteer through the World Wise Schools program

Participate in service project

iEARN

International Education and Resource Network

Allows classrooms around the world to collaborate on service projects

It takes many villages to make a global community

The iEARN community enables you to work with students and teachers around the world.

• Europe

• Africa

• Middle East

• Latin America

• Asia & Pacific

• Australia/NZ

• North America & Caribbean

iEARN has searchable databases on the WWW to help you find international students and teachers easily within the iEARN Community worldwide.

iEARN has schools in over 125 countries

Students are aged

5-19

Your students can work in many languages on collaborative projects with students around the world--projects that are designed by teachers.

• environment/science/math

• arts/literature/language arts

• social studies

iEARN offers you the opportunity to join a global community of teachers and students who share the vision that Internet-based collaboration can both enhance learning and improve the quality of life on the planet.

iEARN enables youth and teachers to communicate with and work together with others locally and internationally, using the Internet to enhance learning and make a difference in their own communities and around the world.

Keys to Interactive On-line Project Success

• Teacher/student driven

• Interactivity, not passivity

• Honor local teaching &

learning styles

• Collaborate with others

Collaboration enhances learning

iEARN Goals

To facilitate teacher and student-directed collaborative on-line project work

To create global, national, and local support structures to sustain project work

To demonstrate that on-line education can enhance learning and improve the quality of life on the planet

iEARN Experience

20 years linking schools for project work in both northern and southern hemispheres (started in 1988)

Structures and projects in over 125 countries involving 2 million students annually in 20,000 schools

Collaboration with governments, NGO’s, foundations, educational agencies, youth groups, religious groups, etc.

iEARN Provides

a safe and structured environment for children to communicate

a known audience for writing and reading for a purpose

an opportunity to apply knowledge in service-learning projects

an inclusive and culturally diverse community of supportive educators

opportunities to meet in person - Beijing 2000, South Africa 2001, Morocco 2009

E-mail: iearn@us.iearn.org

www.iearn.org

www.us. iearn .org

International Dinner

Educational

Cultural

Fundraiser

Community Builder

Good food

Baby Animals

Fun!

Standards for Quality Practice

Links to curriculum

Progress monitoring

Meaningful Service

Incorporates youth voice

Values diversity

Reciprocal partnerships

Reflection takes place before, during and after

Duration/Intensity

Curriculum S.S. Standards

Historic Perspective

Geographic Perspective

Civic Perspective

Economic Perspective

Inquiry

Public Discourse and Decision Making

Citizen Involvement

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