A Global Education Program for the High Schools of Adams County, Ohio. Applied Project.

Overview & Synopsis

This project sought to develop a global education curriculum at the secondary level by developing a rationale and support for a global education curriculum; surveying teachers at North Adams High School as to what they would like to include in the course of study that related to global education; contacting various state departments of education to see if global education curriculum guidelines had been established at the state level; contacting Ohio State University and other state universities to see what research they had done on global education and its curriculum; contacting individuals involved with global education; brainstorming with students at North Adams High School for ideas on how to make their curriculum more globally oriented; combining all of the ideas on global education curriculum to create a comprehensive secondary global education curriculum; and emphasizing and implementing the idea of the whole language approach across the curriculum. A 19-item bibliography concludes the paper. Questionnaire, Inquiry Letters, and Resource Contacts are appended. (JAG)