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An interconnected series of topics anchoring the entire curriculum will ensure that every student has a global vision.
Global Preparedness
The World Course
The World Course of global studies, offered in the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools, will infuse a series of topics throughout the Avenues curriculum to ensure every student obtains a global vision. Every student will study demography, environmental sustainability, world geography, economic trade, world religions and more. For these courses, Avenues will both draw on its own talent and partner with a team of global studies experts directed by Dr. Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
“Offering high-quality global education is an imperative of our time. Students must be deliberately prepared, academically as well as ethically, to seize the opportunities offered by an ever more integrated world. Helping to educate, stimulate and enhance global competency among Avenues graduates is the goal of our work and of the Avenues World Course.”
- Dr. Fernando Reimers
The Design Process…
Building a World-Class Global Studies Curriculum
Dr. Fernando M. Reimers and his colleagues will direct the development of the Avenues World Course curriculum in four comprehensive stages:
Stage 1
The team will construct a detailed profile of a globally competent high school graduate and a series of specific standards and rubrics to guide both instruction and assessment at each individual grade level. This stage will include design of course content objectives and how such content will contribute to the successful development of global competency, as well as the resources needed to achieve this goal.
Stage 2
Avenues leadership and faculty will work with Dr. Reimers’s design team as they conduct a formative evaluation of the curriculum and develop specific instructional units and lesson plans.
Stage 3
The team will design a technologically-based learning environment that will support the diffusion of the World Course across all Avenues campuses. The technology will include social networking platforms to allow teachers and students on different campuses to collaborate on research projects and other activities in the World Course curriculum.
Stage 4
The design team, in concert with Avenues faculty, will conduct a formative reassessment of the World Course curriculum and course content, as well as developing a system of professional support for faculty specific to the instruction of the World Course.