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Professional Development Goes Global
Barbara Bray

..."Children in dozens of countries around the world are living the reality of the global village in personal, hands-on, interactive ways," says Al Rogers, chief operations and financial officer, Global Schoolhouse Network . "Through the medium of networking and telecommunications technologies these students are for the first time learning to think of themselves as global citizens, seeing the world, and their place in the World, in ways much different than their parents." Professional developers can help facilitate international connections by working with teachers on the development of classroom online collaborative projects. First, determine which appropriate resources are available to the teacher, review the student learning goals, and do the research to find suitable projects to tackle....

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