Global Education: Each Person Makes a Difference

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In this paper the author looks at the growing need to educate about the environment in order to make a difference. He highlights that the purpose of establishing a global education is to prepare students by expanding their educational opportunities. He suggests this can be done by helping students to learn about the world beyond their own personal borders in order to save the planet from destruction. The author mentions the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which has a division in Washington D.C. called the Environmental Education Division who is willing to give grants to further environmental education. He also mentions the roles that communities can take in furthering education about the environment and concludes that everyone must make an effort - from teacher to parent - to ensure society protects and is aware of the environment.

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"I am a proponent of crossing the curriculum and incorporating as much of the world into each unit as possible. As teachers we are being challenged to prepare students for responsible global citizenship and therefore instructional strategies need to be used by teachers that reflect the increasing diversity of today's global society (Becker, 1990). I feel that incorporating global education into the classroom allows the student to see that aspects of Language Arts reaches farther than just the pages of a book. I want students to know that the information within stories are part of a much larger picture in the world. However, in order to establish global education in the classroom each teacher must understand that the education must be appropriate and applicable to the person doing the learning. Too often the subject of environmental education focuses on a topic that is far removed from the reality of the student."

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