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Workshop: Teaching Global Competency

  • Saturday, March 07, 2015
  • 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Hospitality Center, Southern NH University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester NH 03106

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Saturday, March 7 

Southern NH University Hospitality Center, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester NH 03106

Directions to campus; see map and photo of Hospitality Center below.

FREE for all NH high school students, teachers and parents with ADVANCE REGISTRATION online or by phone at 603.314.7970!


As part of the Think Global Conference, the Council will hold a FREE workshop on teaching global competency and offer CEUs.


WORKSHOP:

10:30 AM- 11:30 AM

Hospitality Center Board Room

Presenter: Peter Schmidt

Most of today’s students are underprepared for the global and interconnected world that awaits them in higher education and the workplace.  Our presentation will first take a look at our changing world and explain the need for teaching Global Competence, which focuses on international awareness, appreciation of cultural diversity, competitive skills and foreign language. 

Then we will discuss practical application for integrating the concept into the classroom and beyond.  The goal is to show teachers that with a few small modifications, they can work a global perspective into almost any lesson plan. There are no featured products in our workshop and no skill level or prior knowledge is necessary. 


ABOUT PETER SCHMIDT:

Peter Schmidt grew up in 

New Jersey and Massachusetts where he developed a love for foreign language, travel and culture as a young child. Pete began his linguistic journey by attending an Italian nursery school and then continued on to study French, Spanish and Latin in school. He also gained a working knowledge of German. Pete earned his BA in Business from Saint Anselm College with a minor in Spanish in 2002. He studied Spanish and International Business at the Universidad de Sevilla in Seville, Spain and then pursued academic graduate work at the Universidad de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica. He has a M.Ed. in Educational Administration at Rivier University.

Pete is a Spanish teacher at 

Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire  where he also coaches swimming at the varsity level. Pete travels much with the school on various academic trips and co-developed a study abroad/exchange program for Pinkerton students at Askartza-Claret High Schoolin Leioa, Spain .

Pete’s educational endeavors have brought him further afield to China where he participated in a three-month teacher exchange with a sister-school in Tianjin, China. While there, he taught American Culture and English. Pete was selected as one of four teachers from New Hampshire to travel to Turkey on an educators’ study tour grant sponsored by the Turkish Cultural Foundation and the Council on World Affairs of New Hampshire. Most recently, he joined the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program as a Fellow, part of the U.S. State Department's efforts to promote global education in classrooms and schools. Pete's fellowship will culminate with a three-week trip to Brazil this summer.


Conference is funded, in part, by the Mayer and Bean Foundations.




Ice cream sundae bar

Raffle prizes

Academic WorldQuest winners announced 

Ice cream sundae bar

Raffle prizes

Academic WorldQuest winners announced 


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