GEBG has a strong commitment to both furthering research in the field of K-12 global education and to develop research skills amongst our network of global education practitioners, leading the work at their schools. GEBG works to support emerging and practitioner research in the field, and curates relevant findings to improve student learning and empower global educators.
GEBG has a strong commitment both to furthering research in the field of K-12 global education and to building leadership capacity amongst our network of global education practitioners.
In September 2021, GEBG launched a professionally facilitated fellowship open to educators at GEBG member schools. This year-long fellowship allowed GEBG Action Research Fellows to learn about action research and execute a research project to improve global education practice at their schools, while learning from and with a cohort of peers.
GEBG is currently accepting applications for the cohort of 2022-2023 GEBG Action Research Fellows. This leadership fellowship empowers GEBG Action Research Fellows to use action research to explore and design new initiatives in one of two topic areas:
Assessing Student Global Competence Development
Faculty Professional Learning for Global Competence Development
Each cohort of fellows will meet virtually for 90 minutes once a month for the school year, at a regular time to be agreed upon by cohort participants. Most meetings will be as a group, but participants may additionally meet individually with the facilitator some months.
A brief application to become a GEBG Action Research Fellow is due before September 8, 2022. The cost of participation in this professional growth and leadership program, including mentorship in the launch of a customized new or pilot school initiative in the topic area, is $895 for the whole year. As a non-profit, GEBG offers this kind of opportunity to member schools at well below cost.
Both facilitators are trained researchers with research specialties in global and intercultural competence development. Aric Visser is currently the Executive Director of the Baserria Institute for Language and Culture in Madrid, Spain and was previously the Head of Schools for School Year Abroad. Aric has a doctorate degree from the University of Zaragoza in Spain focused on intercultural development. Clare Sisisky is currently the Executive Director of GEBG and has a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania where her research focused on student global competence development.
Throughout the school year 2021-2022, the first cohort of GEBG Action Research Fellows designed and implemented a wide range of research projects at their schools. We would like to congratulate the following Fellows who worked on their research throughout the last school year and we are pleased to share their research topics. Many of them were able to share their research findings with their own school communities during the back-to-school season, and have plans for continuing to use action research as a tool for furthering global education at their schools.
Determining if intercultural dialogue in English with native Arabic speakers in the language classroom impacts intrinsic motivation for Arabic language learning
Investigating faculty understanding of global competence and key concepts across a large multi-campus school
Using thinking routines to assess student global learning outcomes in a 7th grade arts-based virtual exchange with a partner school in Tanzania
Evaluating the short and long term impact of a student travel program in Senegal
Examining school stakeholder understandings of global education.
Implementing and assessing an interdisciplinary middle school collaboration using school global competencies
Identifying and assessing intercultural learning outcomes for students in language and cultural immersion programs
Evaluating design-thinking as a pedagogical tool for student global competence development
Examining effectiveness and impact of using classroom exit-tickets as a formative assessment tool for global competencies
Generating of school-wide shared language related to global education for the creation of competencies
Assessing student global competence development through a limited but immersive virtual exchange program
Designing and implementing a global competence assessment for use across the school’s global experiential programs
Designing assessment tools and data collection with alumni around long-term empathy development through a specific global education program
Measuring the effectiveness of a virtual exchange program between students in the U.S. and Denmark focused on literature
Investigating the development of global competencies for use in the global studies classroom
Determining if and how students develop perspective-taking in a global ethics and leadership course
GEBG frequently publishes data reports on topics relevant to global education at GEBG member schools. Member schools have access to these reports in the GEBG Resource Library as well as through the GEBG Listserv which distributes them. Benchmark data from both GEBG and partner organizations is also included in our annual magazine Interconnected every year.
Every year, GEBG publishes new research in the field of global education as well as research reviews by educators in our annual magazine Interconnected.