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Global Education for Literacy
Global education helps students investigate, communicate effectively, recognize perspectives and more importantly it helps them take personal social action. Global education is needed now more than ever as multinational corporations rose from 7,000 in the 90s to 65,000 in 2013. Global education gets students more engaged in learning by providing them opportunities to examine and solve real world problems and it can be integrated with any school subject. When we add global education to our literacy classes it helps build empathy and deepens the levels of culture and this build deeper knowledge and autonomy in students.
“All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly...Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world.” From Martin Luther King’s “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” (1967)
About me
My Education and Professional Background
I graduated from Virginia Union University with a Bachelor of Arts in French Education in 1995. After starting a family, I continued my passion for education with a master’s degree in Leadership in Teaching which I completed in 2011. I have taught in many types of school districts including urban, suburban, and rural. I learned something valuable from each district. Most recently in Washington, D.C. at the Ronald Brown College Preparatory High School, I have learned social emotional learning (SEL) and culturally responsive teaching. In addition to teaching French, I have taught ESL in middle school and adult education. Becoming a Fulbright Teacher for Global Classrooms (TGC) Fellow 2020-2021 has been a dream of mine since my undergraduate years. In the Fulbright TGC program, I learned how to effectively incorporate global education into my practice. Additionally, I have become a certified Literacy Specialist. I look forward to helping students develop a lifelong love of reading and improving their reading and writing skills.
My Educational Philosophy
I believe every child is unique and deserves a caring, inspiring, and engaging atmosphere in which to grow emotionally, intellectually, and socially. As an educator I want to help students meet their fullest potential in these areas by providing a safe, risk-taking, and collaborative environment. Utilizing SEL and global education practices daily will assist students with lowering the affective filter and develop relationships with other students and myself. Incorporating global education throughout the curriculum will help keep students engaged and working collaboratively with one another. I believe that combining SEL and global education daily will help create lifelong learners.
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