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UPCOMING EVENTS
• Global Issues Teacher Seminar
October 18, 23, and 30, 2008
Hosted by the Orange County
Department of Education and
Global Connect @ UCI
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AN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Global Connect is an original educational partnership developed by
UC Irvine's School of Social Sciences to enrich California's
secondary school curriculum in international studies. This is
accomplished by translating current university-level concepts and
knowledge into a curriculum that is age appropriate for high school
students.
The Global studies knowledge-gap in our public schools is a critical
problem that needs a flexible and immediate response. Students need
lessons they can relate to as global citizens and will affect how
they see themselves in the world. They must be capable of thinking
in terms of worldwide issues to succeed in their respective lives
and careers so that they may contribute tot the general welfare of
society. This cannot be achieved through textbook curriculum that
is outdated by the time it is received by students. Teachers cannot
abandon their classroom responsibilities to acquire current
knowledge of the quickly changing international environment. Global
conflicts and issues need to be brought to the students as current
events-not as history. The study of worldwide issues through Global
Connect @ UCI establishes an environment that creates responsible
global citizens and leads to access for students to higher
education. Global Connect builds a bridge to the world for our
nation's secondary school students.
Global Connect @ UCI dedicates its educational program and
publications to addressing California's History Social Studies
curriculum framework and the National Curriculum Standards for
Social Studies. This is accomplished through the creation of an
original semester course "International Relations and
Globalization"; implementation of the syllabus at select schools in
Orange County; sponsorship of countywide teacher seminars and the
development of new on-line curriculum options for secondary
educators statewide and beyond. Classroom lessons are innovative in
structure and not only teach students factual information but serve
as an ideal platform (stimulus) for analytical-reflective thinking
about global issues.
ster tour around the world includes weekly political map
identification exercises that provide students with the ability to
recognize the location of the world's 205 nations. These weekly
exercises will allow students to locate and name the nations of each
continent and significant regions.
 Global
Connect is a collaborative project to achieve an appreciation
of why the rest of the world matters to us and why we as global
citizens
must engage and give back to make this a better, safer, productive
world for all. Education, training and action are the
essential pillars
of Global Connect.
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Caesar D. Sereseres
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
School of Social Sciences
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