Going Global in the World Language Classroom

With this practical resource, you'll learn how to promote global readiness and build international connections in the world language classroom. Master educator Erin E.H. Austin shares original strategies to facilitate productive language learning and demonstrates how to foster a rigorous, inclusive, and enriching environment. Designed to improve student motivation and engagement, the book is a shift from teaching about the world to teaching with the world. You'll come away with plenty of inspiring and effective ways to not only invite the world into the classroom but also bring the classroom to the world and, in so doing, support an inviting classroom environment.
The book abounds with low-cost, ready-to-implement tools, activities, and lesson ideas. The approaches in this book include coordinating international and world language events at school, using online resources to connect students to new languages and cultures, and broadening student horizons through books and podcasts. Austin also offers ways that further develop students' global education through travel and study abroad opportunities. With this book, your students will become culturally literate, motivated language learners who will be ready to enter the global community and continue to learn from and with the world.

Erin E.H. Austin is a National Board Certified French teacher, a 2018 NEA Foundation Global Fellow, and the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers' 2023 Teacher of the Year.

Acknowledgements Meet the Author Foreword Preface Section 1: The Case for a Global Connection Plan Chapter 1: Understanding Global Education Chapter 2: Creating a Global Connection Plan Section 2: Leveraging Lower-Cost Options Chapter 3: Hosting Chapter 4: World Language Storytime Chapter 5: World Language Day at _____ Chapter 6: Empatico Chapter 7: ePals Chapter 8: International Events in an International Baccalaureate Setting Chapter 9: International Student Panel Chapter 10: Video Options Chapter 11: Podcasts Chapter 12: Window Swap Chapter 13: City Walks Chapter 14: News in Slow _____ Chapter 15: Sustainable Development Goal Units Section 3: Leveraging Higher-Cost Options Chapter 16: Student Trips Abroad Chapter 17: Concordia Language Villages Chapter 18: Global Literature Chapter 19: Global Volunteers and Global Leaders Chapter 20: CIEE High School Summer Study Abroad Chapter 21: Virtual Reality Chapter 22: Forging Your Own Path Section 4: The Way Forward Chapter 23: Increasing Our Own Global Competence Chapter 24: Converting the Naysayers Chapter 25: Igniting the Spark Resources