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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2016/11/connecting_preservice_teachers_to_the_world_through_global_literacy_projects.html

Connecting Preservice Teachers to the World Through Global Literacy Projects
by Jennifer Williams
November 30, 2016

Every day in university preservice teacher programs across the world, the future of education is being formed and molded. Able to recite standards of instruction by number and code and proficient in identifying the qualities of instructional design, aspiring educators work diligently to perfect sample lesson plans for classrooms that, for them, are soon-to-be a reality. For these students, their university experiences are not only events bringing them closer to their careers, but they are defining moments that will shape their mindsets and pedagogical belief systems as they move forward as educators of our global world. By bridging higher education classrooms with K-12 classrooms, we can work to establish foundational understandings of global education for teachers in training and help to shift lessons from abstract simulations to authentic learning and teaching experiences.

This semester in my "Language Arts in the Elementary Years" courses at Saint Leo University in Florida, my students and I sought ways to connect meaningfully to world classrooms in our study of literacy and instructional practice. Here, I share three of these strategies.

Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2016/11/connecting_preservice_teachers_to_the_world_through_global_literacy_projects.html