Thursday, January 22
4:00pm CT – 5:00pm CT
Zoom webinar – click here to register
Free and open to all!

This session will be recorded and made available afterward to all who register.

Career educators: join UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to learn about free teaching resources and curriculum available through Digital Promise to help globalize your CTE classroom!

These materials are designed to support high school and community college educators working in career and technical education, allowing you to globalize your instruction and thereby better prepare your students for our global economy.

Educator Webinar: Preparing Students for Success in a Global Economy

Today’s students will be graduating into a world that is ever more interconnected. One in ten Americans is foreign born, and local communities—urban, suburban, and rural—are growing more diverse. To take advantage of global market opportunities, companies want employees with knowledge of global trends in their industry and the ability to work across cultures. Therefore, career and technical education (CTE/TVET) instructors must prepare their students to compete, connect, and cooperate on an international scale. Using real-world, global issues in the classroom can more deeply engage students in CTE content and lead to enduring interest in career pathways. Educators will leave this session with an understanding of global competence and how to begin to integrate it into what is being taught in CTE (vocational education) courses. Examples of engaging projects as well as free online professional development courses and tools will be shared.

About our facilitator, Verónica Vázquez Ugalde

Working with Digital Promise’s Global Cities Education Network, Verónica helps design and organize global learning opportunities that empower education leaders to share and explore promising solutions to systemic education challenges that can improve education for all. She also manages programs focused on training secondary and post-secondary educators to incorporate global competence into curriculum. Before joining Digital Promise, Verónica led program development, teacher training, and evaluation at Empatico, a platform that enabled elementary school classrooms around the world to connect through virtual exchanges to foster cross-cultural collaboration, empathy, and other career readiness skills. Verónica graduated with a BS in Economics from American University and an MA in Economic Policy from Boston University.