Dr. Janet Stramel, associate professor of teacher education at Fort Hays State University, was recently accepted to participate in the 2018 Global Education in Teacher Education Preparation program. Only 10 education faculty in Kansas were selected.
The program, funded by the Longview Foundation, is a three-phase faculty development project designed to support teacher education faculty in revising a course to incorporate global perspectives and to promote development of a global “self” among students.
Phase 1 is a two-day workshop in Kansas City. The second phase is virtual meetings in follow-up and extension of phase 1. Phase 3 is the application and reflection of learning. The project begins this month and ends in early 2019.
The program is a project used to lay the groundwork for department-level and program-level change to promote the need for internationalizing teacher education and to develop a community of practice among teacher preparation faculty in the Midwest.