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Resources

CIE provides great resources for the international educator. Here you will find general resources, teaching resources, as well as international opportunities.

General Resources

  • Basic Education Coalition
    The Basic Education Coalition (BEC) is a group of U.S.-based organizations and academic institutions working together to promote issues of global peace and prosperity through education.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
    This periodical is dedicated to covering colleges and universities. They serve readers with real-time news and provide tools, career resources, and knowledge in a rapidly changing world.
  • CIES
    CIES is a professional organization dedicated to understanding educational issues, trends, and policies through comparative, intercultural, and international perspectives. CIES organizes and provides conferences, publications, professional networking, and research support for the field of comparative and international education.
  • MOFET/ITEC
    The MOFET Institute is a national intercollegiate center for the research and development of curricula and programs in teacher education and teaching in the colleges. It constitutes a framework both in Israel and worldwide for supporting teacher educators’ professional development.
  • NAFSA
    This the largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education and exchange. NAFSA believes that international education advances learning and scholarship, fosters understanding and respect among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and is essential for developing globally competent individuals.
  • UNESCO
    UNESCO is the United Nations educational, scientific, and cultural organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, the sciences, and culture.
  • United Nations Association of the National Capital Area
    UNA-NCA is a not-for-profit membership-based organization that works with foreign policy and political decision-makers, schools of all levels, and other organizations in the National Capital Area to contribute knowledge, understanding, informed opinion, and new ideas regarding the United Nations, its specialized agencies, and its relationship with the United States.

Teaching Resources

These resources provide ways to teach and learn about the world and its cultures.

  • Adobe Youth Voices
    Adobe Youth Voices empowers employees, customers, and partners to tackle challenges in creative ways, elevating diverse voices, giving back to our communities, and building a more sustainable future.
  • Epals
    ePals is a website that connects K-12 classrooms in more than 99 countries to share content and ideas and collaborate on projects (including pen pal exchanges).
  • Global Nomads
    Global Nomads fosters dialogue and understanding among the world's youth. By leveraging technology, they enable conversations between middle school and high school students who otherwise would not meet.
  • Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
    The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is an international science and education program that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth system and global environment.
  • International Children’s Digital Library
    The ICDL Foundation’s goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. The foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.
  • International Education and Resource Network
    iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 140 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
  • Link TV
    Founded in 1999, Link TV provides international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the US media. They connect American viewers with people at the center of breaking events, organizations at the forefront of social change, and the cultures of an increasingly global community.
  • Taking ITGlobal
    TakingITGlobal is a global network of young people learning about, engaging with, and working towards tackling global challenges.
  • Worlds of Words
    Worlds of Words is committed to providing a range of resources to encourage educators at all levels to integrate global literature into the lives of children. The resources on this site grew out of work in schools around the world.
  • Education World Lesson Planning
    Education World Lesson Planning is a free, independent resource on the Web for educators. Created in 1996, the site publishes lesson plans, worksheets, education news, and other resources aimed at teachers, administrators, and homeschoolers.
  • EmbraceRace
    EmbraceRace is a community of adults who support each other in their efforts to raise and guide children who are inclusive, informed, and brave when it comes to race.

International Opportunities

The programs and organizations listed below provide opportunities for individuals to teach in international settings.

  • Summer at Sea –Teachers at Sea program
    Semester at Sea is a multi-country study abroad program on a ship open to all students of all majors, emphasizing global comparative study.
  • Teach for All
    The Teach For All network is developing collective leadership in classrooms and communities around the world. Each network partner recruits and prepares individuals to teach in their nations’ under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to work with others, inside and outside of education, to ensure all children are able to fulfill their potential.
  • English Language Fellows Program Georgetown University
    All CIED Programs have a focus on building intercultural understanding, fulfilling Georgetown University’s mission to prepare global citizens to lead, serve, and change the world. They design and implement short- and long-term programs and workshops on virtually any topic of interest to program partners.
  • Institute of International Programs – Fulbright
    The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study, conduct research, and/or teach English abroad. In addition, Critical Language Enhancement Awards are available to grantees for study of critical need foreign languages before or during their grant period. Fulbright is a program of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).

Podcasts

  • FreshEd
    FreshEd is a weekly podcast with Will Brehm that takes ideas in educational research and seeks to make them more accessible, unraveling their complexity through conversations with expert academics in the field.
  • The Parent Scoop
    A podcast by Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, sharing expertise in education from fellow academics, who are also parents, in an accessible style and with a practical intent. Created in collaboration with her husband and two children, The Parent Scoop was a response to the challenges that parents faced in educating their children during COVID-19.