The document discusses using film to teach international education in high schools. It quotes Betty Bullard who advocated for international education beginning in elementary school and continuing throughout secondary school. The document discusses sharing goals of preparing students for a globalized world and the challenges of limited budgets, curriculum demands, and unfamiliar international topics. It proposes strategies for integrating international content across curriculums using film and developing teachers' international knowledge through professional development.

1. International Education for High School Students . . . through film Putting the World into World-Class Education: Asia Society’s Forum for Policymakers and Practitioners Washington DC July 10-12, 2008

3. We share a common goal . . . “ As never before, American education must prepare students for a world where the challenges and opportunities for success require the ability to compete and cooperate on a global scale . . .”

16. Film is a highly - accessible medium . . .  Film clips (from web - based downloads, DVDs)  Like news items – brief, with visual / audio clues that encourage intuitive understanding of setting and story  Wide range of lesson options – geography/history, story and character analysis, foreign language/subtitles, cultural studies , visual/dramatic arts, creative writing  Lessons as brief as 30 minutes , as long as several class sessions  Feature films (DVDs, VHS)  First - hand, direct encounters with characters and stories from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America  Students “ see the world through different eyes ” – what is it like to “ be ” Chinese? Algerian? Vietnamese? Iranian?  “ What if this story happened here? ” – how are people ’ s lives shaped by family, school, community, country?

19. A worthy challenge – for sixty years! “ I do not know how it is in other countries, but in a recent public opinion poll two-thirds of the American people said that they thought they could do nothing to help prevent another war. As teachers cannot we band together to replace apathy by interest, ignorance by insight, and dull resignation by determined resolution? Can teachers help to lead the peoples of the world to exercise a generous and intelligent judgment on international questions? If so, the chances of avoiding war are excellent. If, on the other hand, the judgment of the people on these great issues is paralyzed by inertia, blurred by ignorance, and twisted by prejudice, then the decisions made will not lead to peace. They will lead to war and we shall all reap the bitter fruits of stupidity and apathy.” (William G. Carr, Secretary of the Educational Policies Commission, UNESCO, speaking to a seminar of American teachers in 1947)