Sessions
Initial Steps to Global Competency: Supporting New and Future Teachers to Implement iEARN Projects at the iEARN Conference
Laura Hauerwas
Providence College
Laura Hauerwas
Dr. Laura Boynton Hauerwas is an Associate Professor of Elementary/Special Education at Providence College where she teaches courses in language development, instruction for students with special education needs and global education. She received her doctorate from Northwestern University in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research interests include the intersection of language learning and disability, international practices in special education and pre-service teacher education. She has been a faculty-in-residence with Fairfield University in Florence, Italy. Her recent publications address teacher preparation for culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, with a focus on the impact of international teaching experiences on preparation. This is her first year working with the iEARN Future Teachers Project.
Nour-eddine Laouni
Regional Center of Education and Training (CRMEF)
Nour-eddine Laouni
Nour-eddine Laouni has strong expertise in Education and Training. He has been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 1994. He is now a Teacher Trainer at the Regional Center of Education and Training (CRMEF). Mr. Laouni holds a Master's degree in Communications from the University of Moulay Ismail – Meknes. He is now a Doctoral student at the University of Mohammed V – Rabat. His research interests include: Online professional Development, Global Collaboration, PBL, Technology Leadership, Technology and Pedagogy.
Mr. Laouni is active in a number of national and international organizations. He has been an iEARN member since 2000 and an outstanding online course facilitator for virtual exchange and global collaboration projects (The Christ Stevens Youth Network and BRIDGE Program) funded by the U.S. Department of State to sustain engagement and collaboration between teachers in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa.
Mr. Laouni was one of the founders of the Moroccan Education and Resource Network (MEARN) in 2002. He was President of MEARN association from 2014 to 2015. Since then, he has served as the General Secretary in charge of Communication and Training Programs.
He participated in a number of national and international conferences and workshops and published various articles on education and training in Morocco in many national daily newspapers.
Type: Interactive Workshop
Location: Room 1103
Date: Friday
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM
This session is associated with a UN SDG!
This session relates to the Future Teachers: Knowing our Students, Knowing OurSelves iEARN Project!
Session Description
Are you a professor who works with future teachers? Are you a teacher who mentors new teachers who are embracing iEARN project work? In our workshop session, we will share how we used the iEARN Future Teacher project to build our future teachers’ global competencies, while at the same time exposing them to a range of iEARN K-12 projects. Our workshop will include an interactive discussion with participants where we can collectively share ideas regarding how to implement global learning projects when you are a novice teacher (or teacher in training). In addition, participants will be able to examine a global competence learning scale that we found supported our future teacher’s self reflection about their global competence and teaching. We will close with the benefits and challenges that we had as professors leading teachers in training through iEARN project and offer some recommendations for resources to support novice teachers in this important work.
What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
- Acquire resources to support teacher development of global competence
- Identify strategies to support novice teachers who are implementing an iEARN project
Additional Session Information
Are you a professor who works with future teachers? Are you a teacher who mentors new teachers who are embracing iEARN project work? In our workshop session, we will share how we used the iEARN Future Teacher project to build our future teachers’ global competencies, while at the same time exposing them to a range of IEARN K-12 projects. Working collaboratively as teacher educators, we shared resources regarding global competency development, developed collaborative activities for the future teachers that incorporated other IEARN projects, and reflected on the future teacher projects’ impact on our students and ourselves.
In this interactive session we will not only share what we did as part of the IEARN Future Teacher project, but will also include our future teachers’ impressions of participating in Knowing our Students, Knowing OurSelves and analyzing, implementing and critiquing three K-12 IEARN projects. Our workshop will include an interactive discussion with participants where we can collectively share ideas regarding how to implement global learning projects when you are a novice teacher (or teacher in training). New teachers often bring new ideas... but they can be challenged when confronted by the status quo of school, technology hurdles, difficult topics, time, etc.. In addition participants will be able examine a global competence learning scale that we found supported our future teacher’s self reflection about their global competence and teaching. We will close with the benefits and challenges that we had as professors leading teachers in training through IEARN project and offer some recommendations for resources to support novice teachers in this important work.
Possible Activities:
- Facilitated discussion about how to encourage/support new teachers to join IEARN and implement a global learning project
- Examine a global competence learning scale, an on-line self reflection tool from ASCD, and consider ways it could be implemented to support teachers; preliminary results from our students who used it while participating in the Future Teachers project will be shared
Session Resources
Initial Steps to Global Competency: Supporting New and Future Teachers to Implement iEARN Projects - Link to website
Website: The Globally Competent Learning Continuum (from ASCD)