William Kist

The Global School: Connecting Classrooms and Students Around the World William Kist

Finalist--ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award

The world is growing increasingly diverse. Once-divergent cultures are now learning and working together. Discover why your students need an intercultural critical education and how it will help them thrive in an internationalized world. Wrapped in a 21st century skills framework, this book offers specific steps to globalize your classroom and strategies to encourage higher-order thinking.

Learning Outcomes

- Explore innovative ways to embrace globalization and connect K-12 classrooms and learners worldwide.
- Understand the significant impact of the Common Core State Standards on instruction for 21st century skills.
- Identify applicable projects, strategies, and assessments to shift traditional classrooms into global education centers.
- Discover empowering tips to develop students' higher-order thinking.
- Learn to scale the straightforward steps all teachers--whether novice or technologically savvy--can take to help their students become participants in a global society.