Dear Fellow Global Educators and Citizens of the Earth,
This site is a global education guide (GEG) designed to help educators and administrators globalize their teaching, curriculum, and leadership. It is only a small piece of a greater wealth of global education resources, tools, and information that is available. This site can serve as a springboard to your global education journey. Within this website, you will find global education resources, local and international global organization contacts, digital learning resources, sample globalized unit/lesson plans, global education standards, assessment tools, and my travel blog from Peru.
This capstone project is the result of my participation in the 2017-2018 Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program (TGC). TGC is a year-long professional development fellowship for United States elementary, middle and high school teachers to become leaders in global education. TGC is a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by IREX.
Many of you in the classrooms are already engaged in the challenging work of educating tomorrow's workers and thinkers. This GEG should not be viewed as something to be used or done in addition to the pedagogy and best practices you are fully engaged in, but rather it should be viewed as a source of inspiration and additional resources to help effect global change in your classroom, school, district, and state. This online Global Education Guide is comprised of elements that will assist educators (teachers, teaching assistants, administrators, and parents) of the Hicksville UFSD in locating and using resources that will help them design their curriculum to meet student needs with an eye toward educating the "globally prepared student. "
Globally yours, Phillip Moshoyannis, PhD (ABD) Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Fellow Grade 4 Teacher, Lee Avenue School Past 1st Vice-President, Hicksville Congress of Teachers (HCT)
This website is dedicated to my beautiful girlfriend, Tamila Gurzhiy, who was the most global person I ever met. She spoke Georgian, Ukrainian, Russian, English and some German. She was a soul who could brighten any room, had an incredible sense of humor, and had such grace and humility even when she was in pain. It was my pleasure to have known her for even a brief time in my life. Though reluctant to go to Peru during her fight with cancer, she insisted that I go. Thank you very much, Kukla. February 8, 1965----July 22, 2018
DISCLAIMER: This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the grantee's own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.