Collaboration Opportunities: Project based Learning
The 21st century has brought the opportunity to collaborate with teachers around the world from the comfort of our classrooms. Below you will find a variety of organizations who focus primarily on connecting teachers, students, and classrooms for the sole purpose of fostering global citizenship.
* ConnectAllSchools – A number of organizations linking US schools with others around the world are coming together in a new "Connect All
Schools" consortium to meet a very specific goal: to connect every school in the US with the world by 2016.
* Peace Corps Speakers Match – Speakers Match helps to connect returned Peace Corps Volunteers with those who want to hear about
Peace Corps experiences.
* ePals - Focused on the K-12 market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school administrators, teachers, students, and parents
worldwide a safe and secure platform for building educational communities, providing quality digital content and facilitating collaboration for
effective 21st century learning.
* Global Nomads Group – An international non-profit organization whose mission is to foster dialogue and understanding among the world’s
youth. GNG engages and empowers young people worldwide using media, including: interactive videoconferencing, webcasting, social
networking, gaming, and participatory filmmaking.
*Global Education Conference - The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving
students, educators, and organizations at all levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related
connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity.
* Spring International Language Center at University of Arkansas - This department offers many opportunities to collaborate with international
teachers. The opportunities vary and include mentoring a pre-service international teacher, hosting international teachers and students in
your home, serving as a buddy teacher for visiting teachers, etc.
Schools" consortium to meet a very specific goal: to connect every school in the US with the world by 2016.
* Peace Corps Speakers Match – Speakers Match helps to connect returned Peace Corps Volunteers with those who want to hear about
Peace Corps experiences.
* ePals - Focused on the K-12 market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school administrators, teachers, students, and parents
worldwide a safe and secure platform for building educational communities, providing quality digital content and facilitating collaboration for
effective 21st century learning.
* Global Nomads Group – An international non-profit organization whose mission is to foster dialogue and understanding among the world’s
youth. GNG engages and empowers young people worldwide using media, including: interactive videoconferencing, webcasting, social
networking, gaming, and participatory filmmaking.
*Global Education Conference - The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving
students, educators, and organizations at all levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related
connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity.
* Spring International Language Center at University of Arkansas - This department offers many opportunities to collaborate with international
teachers. The opportunities vary and include mentoring a pre-service international teacher, hosting international teachers and students in
your home, serving as a buddy teacher for visiting teachers, etc.
*This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the grantee's own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.