Bev Feldkamp taught social studies and Latin at Valley Lutheran since 1980, when she graduated from Valparaiso University in Indiana. Currently, she teaches a required global issues course to freshmen and sophomores with about 80 students enrolled. Bev also teaches an elective western and non-western civilizations course offered to sophomores through seniors; and she has two sections of Latin with students from all four levels. As Social Studies Chair, she developed the global issues course to include current events and world issues. Her extracurricular responsibilities include Quiz Bowl, Key Club, and Yearbook advisor. She is an active Teacher Consultant for the Michigan Geographic Alliance and frequently presents at state and national conferences. By participating in TGC, she learned from other teachers around the world to broaden her and her students’ understanding of the ever shrinking world in which we live. This experience allowed her to open her classroom to the world and be able to share global issues from a more personal perspective with her students and better pedagogy with her teaching peers.

Bev is dedicated to creating a global classroom because she believes that global education helps students respect, value and celebrate people and cultures around the world, become global citizens, and encourages students to take action. In her Global Education Guide, Bev provides educators with many valuable Global Education resources. She has included lesson plans for various subjects and as well as her unit plan on Food Security. Her unit plan focuses on world hunger. Students examine causes, effects, and solutions to global hunger and hunger in the U.S. and are charged with developing a plan to take action at both the global and local level to help alleviate hunger. During her International Field Experience, Sue traveled to Ghana and has included many resources on her travel blog.