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The Rationale for global education

I'm a huge fan of TED talks. One talk that I came across during my TGC (Teacher's for Global Classrooms) Fellowship is this one: "The Danger of a Single Story" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This talk provides a great example as to why global education is important - particularly with how interconnected our society is today.

The Center for International Education and Global Strategy at the University at Albany publishes a magazine twice a year that focuses on the global engagement of the University. In their Spring 2016 publication, there are several articles that discuss the importance of a global education for youth today as well as what UAlbany is doing to help tackle this endeavor.

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Global Education Assessment Tools

Global Education Checklist1.pdf

This checklist is from the American Forum for Global Education. It is a practical tool that teachers, curriculum developers, school administrators, and state education agency staff can use to gauge their work within the realm of global/international education. This needs assessment would be a great place to start in order for us as a faculty to determine how we are doing at Guilderland High School with respect to global education. Completing this assessment as a faculty may help with giving us a starting point for an action plan as to how we can increase our students' global competencies.

Global Competence Content-Area Matrices.pdf

The Global Competence Matrices are another favorite of mine since learning about global education. The main Global Competence matrix provides detail about the overall definition of Global Competence and how it might be demonstrated by students. The six content-area matrices supplement the main matrix with additional information and perspectives relevant to each content area and its objectives and offer teachers and students a way to look at global competence through the different content area lenses. One of the reasons that I love this resource is because it offers matrices for different subject areas. As a chemistry teacher, I had no idea where or how to begin with globalizing my classroom when I first started my global education journey. This resource has become one of my "go to" resources as I have started to make adjustments to my lessons in order to incorporate the four main global competencies.

Additional Global Education Assessment Resources

Oxfam's Global Citizenship Guides: Aimed at teachers in all subjects, and across all age groups, these guides introduce the key elements of Oxfam's Curriculum for Global Citizenship, as well as providing case studies outlining best practice in the classroom. These guides are also broken up by subject-area making them quite user-friendly. The matrices provided here are also divided up by grade-range. This would be useful for helping us to create a program where we are building upon global competencies from year to year within each subject area.
Asia Society Graduation Performance System: This is a sample of Asia Society's Graduation Performance System which is a set of frameworks and tools designed to help schools integrate global competence into the school curriculum. This sample includes frameworks for: 5th Grade Arts, 8th Grade English Language Arts, 10th Grade History/Social Studies, 10th Grade Science, 12th Grade Math, and 12th Grade World Languages.
Global-Ready Teacher Competency Framework: In order for our school to graduate globally competent students, we must be globally competent educators. This framework is designed to serve as a dynamic planning document for the professional growth of global educators. This would be a good resource to use as a self-assessment in order to see how global-ready you are as an educator.
World Savvy Global Competence Matrix: This is a one-page document that lists the core concepts, attitudes, values & beliefs, and skills that our students need to develop in order to become globally competent. This would be a handy reference sheet to post nearby in order to refer to while tweaking your lessons to be more global-minded.

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