Tool Description:

This detailed checklist provides a framework for evaluating a learner's mastery of global issues. It prompts us to look deeply at our practice, asking: How is global education integrated into my curriculum? How are learners building cross-cultural bridges by understanding global perspectives? How are they actively solving global problems in our space? Click on the embedded document to the right or click here for the link.

Why I Love It: 

The true strength of this tool is its "big-picture" scope. By analyzing the curriculum as a whole—rather than in isolation—educators gain the insights needed to lead important conversations with school leadership and state agencies. It is a powerful resource for ensuring our instructional practices are aligned with global education principles and skills all learners need for the 21st century.

Tool Description: 

This comprehensive checklist empowers educators to evaluate how global education principles are integrated into their units, projects, and lesson plans. It prompts deep reflection on topic selection—ensuring relevance to the learners' local community—while guiding the alignment of learning targets and global competency assessments. Click on the embedded document to the right or click here for the link.

Why I Love It: 

This tool allows you to examine your instructional design from the very beginning. Instead of just focusing on the end result, it ensures that your global education goals are woven into every step, from the initial learning targets all the way to the final assessment.

Tool Description: 

This self-assessment questionnaire empowers learners to evaluate their personal growth across five areas of global competence:

• Cultural Humility:  The re-evaluation of assumptions to better navigate diverse cultural contexts.

• Openness to Diversity: The comfort level in interacting with and learning from various forms of cultural difference.

• Cultural Adaptability: Developing an awareness of oneself and adapting behaviors appropriately for different environments.

• Critical Reflection: Engaging in a learning process that recognizes and critiques political, economic, social, and cultural ideologies.

• Global Citizenship: A reflective understanding of historic and contemporary systems of oppression and one's position within them. It also includes one's ability to continue the effort to build a world that honors basic human dignity.

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Why I Love It: 

This tool allows all learners to engage in a deep self reflection around their learning journey on the topic of global education. Learners begin to identify their unique areas for growth, providing a clear pathway to dive deeper into global competence skills they can work on to be prepared for a global world.