Intercultural Education and Classroom Resources
Window into Global History
Multimedia lesson plans and video clips that teachers can download. While designed for the New York State curriculum, these resources feature contemporary examples and can be useful for any geography or world history course. Channel 13, the producer of the series, won the 2006 Goldman Sachs / Asia Society prize for excellence in International Education.
Center for Intercultural Learning (CIL)
Intercultures Magazine
Homepage for CIL, “the Center for Intercultural Learning: Established in 1969 by the Canadian International Development Agency, the Centre became part of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute of Foreign Affairs Canada, in 1996. Both the Institute and the Centre are internationally recognized in the area of training and human resources. The Centre is Canada’s largest provider of cross-cultural and international training services for internationally-assigned government and private sector personnel.” Intercultures Magazine is their electronic quarterly magazine.
Minnesota International Center’s International Classroom Connection
An interesting program to teach about other cultures in the classroom.
i-studentadvisor e-magazine
This on-line journal is geared to academic advisors in international high schools. Each edition includes Global Features and Counselor Resources.
Diversity Training University International
DTUI provides the knowledge and skills needed to support diversity and cross-cultural training.
Carolina Navigators
This is a elementary/secondary school international outreach program at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Center for Global Initiatives. The program provides area teachers with cultural resources and interactive classroom presentations by Carolina students who have international expertise.
International Topics Journal
Online articles written by U.S. graduate students that highlight recent research and ideas in International Studies. Sponsored by Old Dominion University.
On Education and Teaching
Google UK Schools
Provides free resources for teachers to help use Google tools in the classroom. Of special interest: lesson plans for geography and citizenship.
Tapped In
The online workplace of an international community of education professionals.
Peer Learning Resesarch Site of Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona
Peer learning: collaboration, cooperative learning and peer tutoring is a research group ad scribed to the Education Sciences Institute at the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona (UAB), which constitutes a meeting point for professionals coming from diverse backgrounds committed to the study, practice and spreading out of peer learning. (in English, Catalan and Spanish)
New Horizons for Learning
Interactive clearinghouse and resource locator; an expanded view of teaching, learning, and developing intelligence more fully.
The Giraffe Heroes Project
The Giraffe Heroes Project is a story-based K-12 curriculum that teaches courageous compassion and active citizenship.
The United Nations Cyberschool Bus
It is the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations.
ThinkQuest 2000
ThinkQuest is an international competition where student teams engage in collaborative, project-based learning to create educational websites.
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges
Project HappyChild
This site is here to offer free educational resources, link up children and schools across the world, and also highlight the needs of less fortunate kids.
Educational Research Service
The nonprofit foundation serving the research and information needs of educators and the public.
Global School Net Foundation
Teaching ideas with web publishing, video conferencing and other online tools that bridge geographic gaps, allowing young people around the world to learn together.
Association for Experiential Education
A community for professional outdoor and experiential educators.
Foreign Language Teaching
italki: Social Networking Site for Language Learners
Your students can sign up on this site to find native speakers with whom they can practice their language skills. Members include young people from all over the world.
TESOL-Spain home page
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. See especially newsletter and resources sections.
Spotlight on Culture and Interculture in the Classroom
One of several articles from TESOL-Spain. This one from Montse Torreblanca on techniques for teaching about English-speaking cultures in the ESL classroom.
Center for Applied Linguistics
A special collection of resources for teachers of foreign languages.
Sprogforum
Danish site featuring journal articles about teaching languages.
The Escotet International Link
Spanish and English language gateway to an extensive list of multi-language search engines.
Word Reference
A very useful source for translation and language learning for French, Italian, Spanish and English. Includes international forum to ask questions about language use.
Word2Word
Totally free language learning resources for a huge assortment of languages.
Links to References, Publications and Organizations
Nobel Prizes
Nobel prize history and resources in categories of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economics.
European Federation of Intercultural Learning: EFIL
EFIL is the umbrella organization of the European AFS Organizations in Europe.
Education Week
Helping to raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education.
SIETAR Global
This is the umbrella organization for SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research. However, the SIETAR-USA site provides (below) provides better links to all the SIETAR sites.
Sietar-USA
Sietar International is an organization that strives to help businesses and organizations understand the importance of intercultural training.
Sietar Europa
Various SIETAR groups hold NGO status at the United Nations or are recognized by the Council of Europe.
America’s Library of Congress
Largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
This website is a service of The Chronicle of Higher Education, a news source for college and university faculty members and administrators.
The Smithsonian Institution
Promotes the understanding of national identity through the history and heritage as Americans and encourages innovation, research and the discovery in science.
National Multicultural Institute
NMCI works with individuals, organizations, and communities with a focus on diversity through their mutual communication, understanding and respect.
