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What is a Passport Global School?

to project-based inquiry and student-led learning through globally minded leadership,

authentic learning.

In a Passport Global School, faculty members use Global Gateway, an integrated system of K–12 educator professional development (PD) and curriculum. Teachers access Global Gateway in VIF’s learning center, where they join colleagues in online professional development to strengthen teaching practices through global integration, technology enrichment, collaborative communities of practice and inquiry-driven learning. Teachers also have access to a robust library of lesson plans and rich digital resources that are aligned to Common Core and other national standards.

What makes an exemplary Passport Global School?In an exemplary Passport Global School, all teachers:

Create global environments in their classrooms and contribute to the school’s global environment.

Complete one Global Gateway PD module per quarter.

Integrate VIF-created global lessons, units and/or resources every quarter.

Actively participate in VIF’s learning center to enhance their personal

development as global educators and to support the professional

development of their colleagues.

Use Global Student Indicators in formative and summative

assessment practices.

Incorporate Global-Ready Teacher Competencies and Indicators in their

professional growth plans and demonstrate global-ready attitudes, skills

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Professional DevelopmentPassport Global School teacher progression through global-ready professional development is marked by earning the following end-of-year digital badges:

Year 1: Global-Ready DevelopinG Teacher Teachers demonstrate basic knowledge, skills and abilities required to integrate globalizing strategies and inquiry instructional approaches in the classroom.

Year 2: Global-Ready Proficient TeacherTeachers demonstrate growth in their competence to integrate global learning into their classrooms and to have meaningful conversations around sensitive cultural and global issues with their students.

Year 3: Global-Ready Accomplished TeacherTeachers demonstrate strong competence in efficiently integrating inquiry-based, student-led global investigations into classroom learning. Teachers’ instructional practices include skillfully guided conversations around intercultural competence, global interdependence and local-global interconnections, all in the context of standards-based teaching.

Year 4: Global-Ready Distinguished TeacherTeachers demonstrate strong competence in designing and implementing Action Research Projects based on critical reflections of their own global education teaching practices. Teachers exhibit important skills and knowledge of strategies for collecting, analyzing, summarizing their data, as well as communicating their findings with larger education communities.

Curricular ResourcesVIF’s Global Gateway curricular resources are designed using a project-based inquiry format to engage students in explorations of the following global themes: Global Politics, Global Society, Global Education, Global Geography, Global Economy and Global Society.

VIF recommends that teachers consistently teach globally focused lessons by following the grade-level sequences of lessons offered on the next two pages. Teachers can supplement the curricular scope and sequence with additional Global Gateway resources and with original global lessons resulting from their professional development.

Global GatewayK-5 Curricular Content Progression

• Art and Symbols: Totem Poles• Compare and Contrast: U.S. and Canadian Flags and Symbols• Creating Symbols: Canadian Totem Poles• My Visual Heritage

• Año Viejo Up in Smoke• Compare and Contrast: Cultural Fairy Tales: Yeh-Shen and Cinderella• Meeting Famous Canadians• Our Languages: Cultures in the Classroom

• Exploring South American Culture Through Music and Movement• Flags of North America• Symbols and Representations: African Masks

• Animal Research: Using the Internet• Compare and Contrast: Animals in Australia and in the U.S.

• Shapes in Architecture• Living and Nonliving Things in the Australian Desert• Row, Row, Row Your Gondola Gently Down the Canal

• Comparing and Contrasting: Natural Disasters in New Zealand and the U.S.• African Animals A to Z• Australian Animal Research• Shanghai: Past, Present, Future

• Learning About Seasons• ABCs of Costa Rica and the USA• Penguins All Around the Globe

• Rhythmic Australian Animals• Canadian Northern Lights• Earth Day Around the World

• Will It Need Water?• The Good Garden Project

• You and the Internet• School Life in Ireland• Surveying Switzerland’s Languages

• Compare and Contrast: Children in the Philippines and the U.S.• School Life in Latin America• How Do You Get to School? Transportation

• A Tale of Many Places• Classroom Cultures• Compare and Contrast: Classrooms in China and in the U.S.

• Basics of Bartering• Resource Round-Up: How Nautral Resources Play an Important Part of the Economy• Jobs Near and Far

• Pasta Graphing• Aztecs Trading System

• Local Economies and International Trade• Money Math at German Market

• Learning About Leaders• Rules and Regulations: Comparing the U.S. and Russia

• Celebrating Peace• Reading About Rights• Global Treaties: How We Are All Connected by Policies

• Why in the World is That a Rule?• Comparing Constitutions: India and the U.S.

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• Art and Symbols: Totem Poles• Compare and Contrast: U.S. and Canadian Flags and Symbols• Creating Symbols: Canadian Totem Poles• My Visual Heritage• The Gingerbread Man Visits Europe• Where in the World Do We Come From?

• Ano Viejo Up in Smoke• Compare and Contrast: Cultural Fairy Tales: Yeh-Shen and Cinderella• Meeting Famous Canadians• Our Languages: Cultures in the Classroom• Celebrating Pakistan’s Basant Kite Festival

• Families Around the World Unit (5 lessons)• Exploring South American Culture Through Music and Movement• Flags of North America• Symbols and Representations: African Masks

• Animal Research: Using the Internet• Compare and Contrast: Animals in Australia and in the U.S.• A Kenyan Child

• Shapes in Architecture• Living and Nonliving Things in the Australian Desert• Row, Row, Row Your Gondola Gently Down the Canal

• Indian Monuments Unit (5 lessons)• Comparing and Contrasting: Natural Disasters in New Zealand and the U.S.• African Animals A to Z• Australian Animal Research• Shanghai: Past, Present, Future

• Learning About Seasons• ABCs of Costa Rica and the U.S.A.• Penguins All Around the Globe

• Rhythmic Australian Animals• Canadian Northern Lights• Earth Day Around the World

• Comparing U.S. and European Weather and Climate Unit (5 lessons)• Community: Environmental Challenges Unit (4 lessons)• Will It Need Water?• The Good Garden Project

• You and the Internet• School Life in Ireland• Surveying Switzerland’s Languages

• Compare and Contrast: Children in the Philippines and the U.S.• School Life in Latin America• How Do You Get to School? Transportation

• A Tale of Many Places• Classroom Cultures• Compare and Contrast: Classrooms in China and in the U.S.

• Basics of Bartering• Resource Round-Up: How Nautral Resources Play an Important Part of the Economy• Jobs Near and Far

• Africa: Needs and Wants Unit (4 lessons)• Pasta Graphing• Aztecs Trading System

• Social Entrepreneurship Unit (6 lessons)• Local Economies and International Trade• Money Math at German Market

• K: Citizenship Unit (7 lessons)• Learning About Leaders• Rules and Regulations: Comparing the U.S. and Russia

• Celebrating Peace• Reading About Rights• Global Treaties: How We Are All Connected by Policies

• Why in the World is That a Rule?• Comparing Constitutions: India and the U.S.

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• Creating a Haitian Menu• Harvest Festivals in Asia• Lunch in Costa Rica• Lunch In Haiti• Comparing Cultures: Cambodia and the Unites States• Daily Life in a European Country• Music: Communicating Around the World• Global Birthday Celebrations

• Bonfire Night in England• Area, Perimeter and Meanings of Moroccan Rugs• The Influence of Mayan and Aztec Cultures on Latin America

• Climate and Culture Around the World• Connecting Climate and Culture in New Zealand and Your Home State• Global Innovations and Interventions• Our Family History and Immigration Around the World• Respect and Acceptance in North America• Symbols of Jamaica• Understanding Countries: G.R.A.P.E.S.• Using Math to Race Against Usain Bolt• World Biomes: Climate and Culture• World Explorers

• Touring Europe• Tour of European Cultures• Finding Out About Fjords

• Ecosystems of the Great Barrer Reef and Connections Between Australia and the U.S.• North America’s Rivers and Deltas• Mapping Our Way Around the U.K. with Harry Potter

• All That Blubber• Hurricanes and Tsunamis

• The Geography of the U.S. and Tanzania• Cause and E�ect: Natural Disasters• Mapping the World Through Health and Math

• Deforestation Stations• Population Density of Australia• What a Disaster!• Life in Mali: How Environment Affects Culture• Biomes of Asia: How Climate Affects Culture• Population Growth: Mapping the Local and the Global

• Global Warming: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?• Being Green: Global Teams• Understanding Differences: The Pee Dee Culture

• City Mouse Visits Country Mouse• Learning About Literacy: Languages Around the World • Classroom Collaboration: Using Technology to Connect with Friends Near and Far

• The Influence of Technology on Politics in Australia and the U.S.• Multicultural Multiplication

• Technology Today• Perspectives on Pilgrims: Looking at Primary Sources from the U.S. and England• The Space Race: Sputnik and How it Changed What We Learn in Schools

• World Currency• Car Production: Examining Where Automobiles Come From and Cost to Make Them• Energy Usage in the USVI: Understanding Local Costs of Energy

• Immigration and Global Interdependence• NAFTA - Trading Between Countries• Comparing Economics: Socialism and Communism

• Voting in Peru• Why Do We Have Laws? Looking at Columbia, Somalia and Brazil• A Pig Named Napolean? Not in France!

• Tulip Mania• Family Economics• Supply and Demand: Looking at Goods Globally

• Nations Coming Together: World Relief Organizations• Policies About Pollution• The Japanese Diet Globally

• The Holocaust• Governments of the U.S. and Australia• Intercultural Competence: Making Connections Between Civil Wars in the U.S. and Sudan

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