Teaching Tips
1. Keep yourself apprised of global issues. Opportunities for helping students understand the relevance of content from a global perspective can only be taken advantage of by educators who can see the connections.
2. One of the key skills in understanding the perspectives of others is to delay judgment when considering issues until you have considered all sides of the issue. Give students opportunities to work through ambiguous and misleading problems. (See the exercise in the link below for an example of such a problem):
Sample lesson
3. Students need to have a strong geographic knowledge base to be able to place global issues in context. Even if geography is not an explicit responsibility of your teaching, keep maps in your classroom and reference the origin of the chemicals, literature, or technologies in your curriculum.
4. When listing sources for research and information students may use for assignments, include international resources to encourage understanding of different perceptions of the same events. See the activity at the bottom of this page for an example of the use of such resources.
5. Consider projects that provide opportunities for students to interact with others from around the globe. Some sources for information about these projects are listed in the resources section.
