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GLOBAL SCHOOLS
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
and knowledge.
GLOBAL
TOGETHER
Professional Development
Passport 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 Teacher
Teachers 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 Teacher
Teachers 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 Teacher
Teachers 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 Resources
VIF’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 Gateway
K-5 Curricular Content Progression
Grade 1
Kindergarten
Global
Society
Global
Society
Pre-K
• Art and Symbols: Totem Poles
• Art and and
Symbols:
TotemU.S.
Poles
• Compare
Contrast:
and
•
Compare
and
Contrast:
U.S.
Canadian Flags and Symbolsand
Canadian Flags and Symbols
• Creating Symbols: Canadian
• Creating Symbols: Canadian
Totem
Poles
Totem
Poles
• My
Visual
Heritage
• My
Visual
Heritage
• Animal Research: Using the Internet
• Compare and Contrast: Animals in
Australia and in the U.S.
• Animal Research: Using the Internet
• Compare and Contrast: Animals in
Australia and in the U.S.
• A Kenyan Child
Global
Environment
Global
Environment
Global
Geography
Global
Geography
• The Gingerbread Man Visits Europe
• Where in the World Do We Come
From?
•
•
•
Learning About Seasons
ABCs of Costa Rica and the USA
• Learning About Seasons
Penguins All Around the Globe
• ABCs of Costa Rica and the U.S.A.
• Penguins All Around the Globe
Grade 1
• Exploring South American
Grade 2
Grade 2
• Año Viejo Up in Smoke
• Families
Around
the World
Culture
Through
MusicUnit
(5and
lessons)
Movement
• Ano Viejo
Up in Smoke
• Compare
and Contrast: Cultural
• Compare
and
Contrast:
Culturaland Cinderella
Fairy Tales:
Yeh-Shen
Fairy Tales: Yeh-Shen and Cinderella
• Meeting Famous Canadians
• Meeting Famous Canadians
• Our Languages:
in the
• Our Languages:
Cultures Cultures
in the
Classroom
Classroom
• Celebrating Pakistan’s Basant Kite
Festival
• Shapes in Architecture
• Living and Nonliving Things in
the Australian Desert
• Shapes in Architecture
Row,and
Row,
Row Your
Gondola
• •Living
Nonliving
Things
in
Gently
Down
the
Canal
the Australian Desert
• Comparing and Contrasting:
Natural Disasters in New Zealand
and the U.S.
• Indian Monuments Unit (5 lessons)
• African Animals A to Z
• Comparing and Contrasting:
• Australian Animal Research
Natural Disasters in New Zealand
• Shanghai: Past, Present, Future
and the U.S.
• •Exploring
American
Flags ofSouth
North
America
Through
Music
•Culture
Symbols
and Representations:
and Movement
African Masks
• Flags of North America
• Symbols and Representations:
African Masks
• Row, Row, Row Your Gondola
Gently Down the Canal
• Rhythmic Australian Animals
• Canadian Northern Lights
• Rhythmic Australian Animals
• Earth Day Around the World
• Canadian Northern Lights
• Earth Day Around the World
• African Animals A to Z
• Australian Animal Research
• Shanghai: Past, Present, Future
• Will It Need Water?
• The Good Garden Project
• Comparing U.S. and European
Weather and Climate Unit
(5 lessons)
• Community: Environmental
Challenges Unit (4 lessons)
Global
Economy
Global
Economy
Global
Education
Global
Education
• Will It Need Water?
• The Good Garden Project
• You and the Internet
• School Life in Ireland
• You and the
Internet
• Surveying
Switzerland’s
Languages
• School Life in Ireland
• Surveying Switzerland’s Languages
• Basics of Bartering
• Basics ofRound-Up:
Bartering How Nautral
• Resource
• ResourcePlay
Round-Up:
How Nautral
Resources
an Important
Part of
Resources Play an Important Part of
the Economy
the Economy
• Jobs Near and Far
Global
Politics
Global
Politics
• Jobs Near and Far
• K: Citizenship
(7 lessons)
• Learning
About Unit
Leaders
• Rules
and Regulations:
• Learning
About LeadersComparing
• Rules
Comparing
the
U.S. and
andRegulations:
Russia
the U.S. and Russia
• Compare and Contrast: Children
in the Philippines and the U.S.
• •Compare
Children
School and
LifeContrast:
in Latin America
the Philippines
andto
the
U.S.
•in How
Do You Get
School?
• School Life in Latin America
Transportation
• How Do You Get to School?
Transportation
• Pasta Graphing
• •Africa:
Needs
and Wants
Unit
Aztecs
Trading
System
(4 lessons)
• Pasta Graphing
• Aztecs Trading System
•
•
•
Peace
•Celebrating
Celebrating
Peace
About
Rights
•Reading
Reading
About
Rights
Treaties:
HowHow
We Are
•Global
Global
Treaties:
WeAll
Are All
Connected by Policies
Connected by Policies
• A Tale of Many Places
• Classroom Cultures
• A Tale
Many Places
• of
Compare
and Contrast: Classrooms
• Classroom
Cultures
in China
and in the U.S.
• Compare and Contrast: Classrooms
in China and in the U.S.
• Local Economies and International
• Social Entrepreneurship
Unit
Trade
(6 lessons)
• Money Math at German Market
• Local Economies and International
Trade
• Money Math at German Market
• Why•inWhy
the World
That a is
Rule?
in theisWorld
That a Rule?
• Comparing
Constitutions:
India and India and
• Comparing
Constitutions:
the U.S.the U.S.
Grade 5
• Climate and Culture Around the World
• Connecting Climate and Culture in New
• Bonfire Night in England
• Area, Perimeter and Meanings
of Moroccan Rugs
• The Influence of Mayan and
Aztec Cultures on Latin America
• The Geography of the U.S. and
Tanzania
• Cause and Effect: Natural Disasters
• Mapping the World Through Health
and Math
• 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
•
•
•
•
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
• Tulip Mania
• Family Economics
• Supply and Demand: Looking at
Goods Globally
• 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!
• 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
Global
Politics
Global
Economy
Global
Education
Global
Society
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
Global
Geography
Grade 4
Global
Environment
Grade 3
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•
•
•
•
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
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