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What is Global Competence?
What is Global Competence?
Global Competence is encouraging students to embrace their role as leaders through the following four domains: students should recognize the perspective of those who differ from them, communicate their ideas clearly to a diverse audience, investigate the world both locally and globally, and take action to solve shared problems.
Global Competence is encouraging students to embrace their role as leaders through the following four domains: students should recognize the perspective of those who differ from them, communicate their ideas clearly to a diverse audience, investigate the world both locally and globally, and take action to solve shared problems.
Global Education is the acknowledgement that the world is an inter-connected place where we all benefit from working together to address our shared challenges. To do this, we should learn about issues facing the world, global cultures, languages, and histories. In this way, global students will be more prepared to connect with others. How do we solve the complex problems of the world? Today's students have amazing capacity and agency to lead.
Global Education is the acknowledgement that the world is an inter-connected place where we all benefit from working together to address our shared challenges. To do this, we should learn about issues facing the world, global cultures, languages, and histories. In this way, global students will be more prepared to connect with others. How do we solve the complex problems of the world? Today's students have amazing capacity and agency to lead.
We can foster global classrooms by ensuring every student has the opportunity to experience these domains in the safety of our classroom settings through authentic real world learning experiences. Students need to develop skills, attitudes, and values to help them nagivate a complex world.
We can foster global classrooms by ensuring every student has the opportunity to experience these domains in the safety of our classroom settings through authentic real world learning experiences. Students need to develop skills, attitudes, and values to help them nagivate a complex world.
Digital Learning Environment
Digital Learning Environment
Seesaw Student Portfolios
Flip (Microsoft Education)
Go Pangea
Padlet
Seesaw Student Portfolios- Our school uses Seesaw journals as a parent-facing portfolio of student work. In addition to having students write prompts and demonstrate their best work, The Seesaw Community Library has many global lessons you can assign to your students. These lessons enable students to connect and reflect as they learn about their world. They enjoy having a platform and a built-in audience.
Flip videos- Our class paired up with a classroom in Alaska for a Student Spotlight Challenge as part of the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms course. Each student recorded a short video about what life is like in their hometown. Students covered everything from their favorite fishing spots and water parks to how much homework they have. My students loved hearing about the remote natural beauty surrounding their Alaskan peers. Students were then able to view and comment on the videos of their sister classroom.
Go Pangea- Formerly PenPal Schools, this site enables students to read, research, and respond to topics in a safe, moderated way. Their favorite part is reading the posts of kids around the world and comparing their shared experiences. For example, there is a current post asking students to describe a pop culture trend in their community. Students were very motivated to write about this topic, and were amazed at how ubiquitous some trends were worldwide.
Padlet- This resource enables many users to post simultaneously for review both in the moment and over time. It's a great way to crowdsource information, connect with a group across locations, or simply bring your classroom together to present on a shared topic. The photo above shows a Padlet dedicated to climate change resources for classrooms, and includes topics such as curriculum, sustainability frameworks, and suggested podcasts.
Global Education Assessment Tools
Global Education Assessment Tools
This graphic can provide a quick visual to see if you are embedding opportunties for your students to become more of a global thinker in the classroom. I used these markers as a guide when unit planning this past year, and I found it aligned well with PBL units in particular.
World Savvy GC Matrix.pdfThis document from World Savvy is a great one-pager highlighting the behaviors, skills, values, and attitudes of globally competent students. In my classroom, I used many of these indicators as part of the "student promise of the day" that helps students focus on who we want to be.
These example performances of global competence come from a publication from the Asia Society titled "Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World." There are instructional ideas throughout the document that align with planning for authentic assessments, place-based educational activities, collaboration, and more. The document has a page for each of the four domains of global competency. The link on the left will open a Google doc with all four pages of competencies included.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
This first article (3 Quick Tips and 40+ Resources) is authored by one of the instructors for our Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms course. I used it a lot as I was dipping my toes into the world of global education. Many of the ideas are simple enough to incorporate in a morning meeting, and some are large enough to keep you and your students going for months. Each suggestion has three sections with varying levels of committment for how involved you'd like to be. The Maths and Global Citizenship article includes how to globalize math and the benfits to teachers, students, and the world- my math heart sung when I read it! Lastly, Asia Society and Oxfam are some amazing resources, and these two articles provide teachers with a great introduction.
Orgainzations in the Field
Orgainzations in the Field
These four sites/organizations were my go-to during the Fulbright course for global educators, and remain so to this day. I love the lesson and unit plans from PBL works and Oxfam, the big-picture thinking and overview from Asia Society, and the wealth of teaching resources from Primary Source.
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