An Annotated Guide to Global Education

An Annotated Guide to Global Education

Standards and Practices from the Institute for Global Learning Community

By Laura Appell-Warren, Chad Detloff, John Nordquist, and Clare Sisisky

As an organization that gathers model practices in order to establish benchmarks in support of schools that want to improve their global education programs, the Institute for Global Learning over the course of many years, developed six areas of focus to guide members in their work:

• Vision and Purpose
• Governance and Leadership
• Teaching and Learning
• Stakeholder Communications
• Program Management
• Risk Management

Included within each of the above categories are 3-7 benchmarks by which schools can assess their own practices in relation to those of peer schools and to set goals for program development over time. The Institute for Global Learning currently uses these to guide professional learning opportunities, school evaluations and endorsements, and our own development as an organization.

We have developed a publication that intends to provide member schools with a version of these standards and practices that includes further explanation of what the standards mean, provides examples of what they look like in member schools, and includes guidance on how school leaders might self-assess and begin to develop and improve their own programming.