Survey Results – Top Ten Teacher Reasons for Going Global

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The results of our first survey are in! Thank you to all of you who participated! Please look below the word cloud (created from your responses) for a summary. Also, please take Part II of the survey now to help us keep the discussion going. (Quotes by teachers who participated are here.)

Response

Educators, working with ESL, pre-school, elementary, middle school, high school and Foreign Language students, and teachers in training, from the USA, Argentina, Pakistan, Serbia, Ukraine, India, Romania, Poland, Egypt, Australia, Costa Rica and New Zealand responded.

 

Importance of Global Classroom Connections

We asked, “On a scale of 1-10, how important do you think it is to engage students WITH their global peers in the context of their learning?” The average response was 9.25. The range was 7-10, with 62.5% choosing 10.

 

The Top Ten Reasons for Going Global in the Classroom

(Why is it important for students to engage WITH their global peers in the context of their learning?)

10. If fulfills our school mission.

9. It builds communication skills; students can practice the language they are learning in the real world.

8. It builds career skills and increases employment opportunities.

7. It promotes democratic citizenship and peace.

6. It celebrates our cultural diversity.

5. It is connected and collaborative, so it makes learning more powerful and meaningful.

4. It builds awareness (of diversity, similarities and differences, the context in which we learn and live, our world, other cultures, and world problems and their solutions).

3. It inspires learning by giving students an opportunity to share who they are as they learn from others.

2. It invigorates and authenticates the curriculum by providing meaningful, real-world learning. (It makes students feel they are an integral part of the world, and take responsibility for it.)

1. It helps students develop critical social skills and values (like openness, kindness, empathy, tolerance, respect, collaboration, problem solving, compassion, understanding and caring).

 

Posts Related to This Survey

Making the Case for Going Global

Part I Survey Results

Teacher Quotes 1

Teacher Quotes 2

It’s not to late to take the survey! Please do so we can include more voices:

Part I

Part II

Many thanks to all who have contributed/commented!

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