This document discusses how teachers and students can go beyond classroom walls through global collaboration. It addresses why global education is important for developing 21st century skills, what global education can look like through examples of connecting classrooms internationally, and how teachers can overcome challenges by starting small and integrating global projects into the curriculum. Resources for finding international partners and professional development are provided to help teachers get started with flattening their classroom walls through global education.

1. Going Global
How To Go Beyond Classroom Walls
**All images are my own work unless cited at bottom**

2. Who Am I?

3. • WHY should teachers and students explore ways to
share, connect, and collaborate globally?
• WHAT does global collaboration look like?
• HOW can I help teachers overcome the challenges and
obstacles faced by teachers interested in flattening their
classroom walls?
• WHERE can teachers find international partners, and
access professional development to support their
integration of global perspectives / collaboration across
the curriculum?
Goals

4. Are you ready? You have a choice!!!!!
My character, SenseiWu, from WoW

5. Do You Choose The.......
Image from The Matrix

6. "Drinking the Kool-Aid"

7. Goal #1
Why Global Education?
21st Century Skills
McLeod, Scott. "Iowa â!! 21st Century Curricula." Iowa â!! 21st Century Curricula. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct. 2012.
<http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/03/21st-century-curricula.html>.

8. Goal #2
What Does Global Education Look Like?
Going Beyond Classroom Walls

10. Expand Your Classroom Walls!

11. What Global Classroom Looks Like
& Examples of Why

12. Classroom Examples
Hungary Penpals

13. Unexpected Learning Opportunities

14. Unexpected Learning Opportunities

15. Goal #3
How can I help teachers overcome the challenges and obstacles faced by
teachers interested in flattening their classroom walls?
You gotta get dirty!

16. How do I start?

17. Global Education is not an
“add-on” it is integrated!
"MStM PLC Forum." : Iowa Core/Common Core Fact Sheet. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct. 2012. <http://mstmplc.blogspot.com/2010/11/iowa-
corecommon-core-fact-sheet.html>.

18. Please Remember
Go at YOUR comfort level
Establish a strong PLN
Don't be afraid to take risks
Have a deadline
Be ready to be amazed!

19. Be Brave and Create Your Own!

20. Goal #4
Where Do I Start? Where Do I Look?

21. Questions?

22. Your International Project
Begins!

23. Lorma International School