Increasing Global Competence with the Asia Society's Partnership for Global Learning Conference

With a focus on increasing global competency and other 21st century skills in teachers and students alike, the Asia Society’s Partnership for Global Learning conference should be on every educators ‘must attend’ list. Holly Emert of IIE’s Global Teacher Programs division represented IIE at the 2014 conference, which was held June 27-28, 2014 in Brooklyn, New York. At the conference, she shared information about IIE teacher programs, including the teacher component of Generation Study Abroad.

Wei-Ee Katie Cheng, an alumna of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by IIE, also attended the conference. Katie participated as a panelist in a State Department-sponsored session, 'State Department Fellowships to Support Global Competence,' where she shared with the audience how she is applying her 2012 Fulbright experience in Singapore in her U.S. classroom to increase student learning.