Global Education
Global Education Department Awards
The purpose of the COE Global Education Awards were:
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To encourage program-wide curricular renewal, utilizing content in new ways that will integrate global education throughout an entire program.
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To encourage innovative teaching strategies and learning opportunities that will integrate global education throughout an entire program (including credit for international study opportunities, if possible).
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To develop departmental strategies for assessing student growth and/or achievement of desired outcomes relating to global education.
Funds were made available for awards of $1500. There was a competitive application and review process. Units proposed projects that would be undertaken during the 2003/2004 academic year. Awards would be granted during the spring of 2003. Two proposals were recommended for funding.
Application Packet
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Global Education Award Application Packet (PDF: 16K / 3 pages)
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1. Child and Family Studies: CFS Global Education Emphasis
The department proposed to develop a new emphasis within their undergraduate early childhood program. Several courses will be targeted and revised to serve as global education core courses in early childhood education. In addition, global perspectives will be integrated into numerous other courses to “deliberately lead students to view issues about children, families, and teaching in a broader context.” Further, CFS will develop a new course for English Language Learners that will be taught by Dr. Own. This course will be a requirement for the global emphasis. Students in the emphasis will be required to participate in an international field experience which can involve student teaching, service learning, or other coursework. Finally, the department committed to designing and delivering at least one course to be available to students via the internet as an attempt to attract students who may not be able to attend classes in the US or on this campus.
2. Educational Leadership and Community Psychology: International Certificate Program
This department has agreed to open an international certificate “focus” option to all students in their Master's degree or 6 th Year program. Each student who chooses to participate in the international focus will need to either (1) write a paper and/or (2) present a paper of findings to each class that they enroll in. The instructor may also require an alternate assignment. This will be for a minimum of 18 credits. After having completed he required credit coursework assignments, the student will present his/her findings to a minimum of one school.
3. Additional Global Activities of Task Force and SPARC Office
There were also activities scheduled during the task force meetings this year for the specific purpose of providing resources and information to the task force members. Task force members are expected to share information with their departments/units and to be a general resource concerning global education.
a. Finding funding workshop. The task force members are aware of pending budget reductions campus-wide and within the College of Education . To initiate new and/or expanded efforts pertaining to global education, it seemed appropriate to learn to seek information about outside funding sources. Donella Westphal, Office of Sponsored Programs, and Pamm Minden, Special Projects and Applied Research Office, conducted a workshop for the task force using the COE wireless lab laptops. Members learned how to search for funding sources in general and also learned how to search for sources that might be appropriate for specific unit/department interests.
b. Coordinating with the Center for International Studies. Linda Raine, Study Abroad Coordinator from the Center for International Studies, presented to the task force about the various study abroad opportunities for both faculty and for students. She also distributed a draft of the proposed expansion of the “intersession” study abroad activities.
c. Grant application. At the request of Dr. Zhang and Dr. McKay a proposal was prepared that was submitted to the Partners in Education Program sponsored by the American Councils for International Education. This proposal was to bring Eurasian secondary education and teacher preparation colleagues to Minnesota to share information about citizenship education. The proposal drew upon expertise within the College of Education , two partner schools, and the College of Social Science . The proposal was not funded, but the development of the plan will be useful for other applications in the future.
