How to Use this Guide: An Introduction
This guide is a collection of information, ideas, concepts, strategies and tools of my journey from the online courses, field experiences and reflections as I work to increase my competency in global education. This inquiry has been made possible through the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program (TGC), sponsored by IREX. The guide is primarily for my school/ district community and secondarily my broader global community.
Here I gather information that makes the case for
the need for global education, TGC and IREX.
The essential parts of this guide are the:
Study pages
Teach pages
Travel pages
Here I gather information that makes the case for
the need for global education, TGC and IREX.
The essential parts of this guide are the:
Study pages
Teach pages
- International PBL resources
- Community Resources
- Standard Based Global Education Updates
- My Global Education Unit Plan
- Professional Learning Community
Travel pages
This video provides me the rationale for participating in global literacy. I use it to begin the conversation and class discussion on global literacy.
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My Definitions
1. Global Citizenship: Being a citizen implies that one has certain rights, obligations, allegiances, privileges and democratic of a commonwealth, country or homeland. This citizenship is acquired through birth, adoption, purchase or earned through service.
Oxfam defined a global citizen as someone who is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as a world citizen.This citizen respects and values diversity, has an understanding of how the world works, is outraged by social injustice, participates in the community at a range of levels ( from the local to the global), is willing to act to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place, and takes responsibility for their actions.
2. Global Perspectives-is an emphasis on how societies across the globe are increasingly interconnected. It is a study of the larger world and our society's place in it. According to Asia Society, developing a global perspective’ means that the education received enables people to understand the links between their own lives and those of people throughout the world, increase understanding of economic, social and political forces which shape life, develop skills, attitudes and values to enable people working together to bring about change for ‘common good’ and to take control of their own lives and work towards a more just and sustainable world where power and resources are more equitably shared.
3. Cross-Cultural Education- Originally thought of as the promotion of exchanges of students and other persons with the intention of influencing their political views and thereby modifying the climate of opinion in their native lands, now it seen as education that involves the reciprocal exchange of cultures among different people across the globe. There are elements of discourses involving cultural interactivity.
4. Global Competence involve the ability, capacity and disposition of an individual to investigate the world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas and take action on issues of global significance.
5. Globalization- According to Globalization101, globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. It is the increasing interconnectedness of societies.
6. Trans-Nationalism- is the increasing trans border relations of individuals, groups, and firms and to mobilizations beyond state boundaries. Individuals, groups, institutions and states interact with each other in a new global space where cultural and political characteristic of national societies are combined with emerging multilevel and multinational activities. It is a part of the process of globalization.
7. Cosmopolitan- the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality.
8. Transferability- the quality of being exchangeable; "sterling transferability affords a means of multilateral settlement for trade between non-dollar countries".
9. College and Career Readiness- According to ACT, this is defined the level of achievement a student needs to be ready to enroll and succeed without remediation in credit‐bearing first‐year in a post secondary institution, primarily defined as a two‐year or four‐year institutions, trade schools, and technical schools. Being career ready means possessing the key content knowledge and key learning skills and techniques sufficient to begin studies in a career pathway.
10. Interdisciplinary Education- emphasizes connections between discrete disciplines such as science and math. It is the process in which two or more subject areas are integrated with the goal of fostering enhanced learning.
1. Global Citizenship: Being a citizen implies that one has certain rights, obligations, allegiances, privileges and democratic of a commonwealth, country or homeland. This citizenship is acquired through birth, adoption, purchase or earned through service.
Oxfam defined a global citizen as someone who is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as a world citizen.This citizen respects and values diversity, has an understanding of how the world works, is outraged by social injustice, participates in the community at a range of levels ( from the local to the global), is willing to act to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place, and takes responsibility for their actions.
2. Global Perspectives-is an emphasis on how societies across the globe are increasingly interconnected. It is a study of the larger world and our society's place in it. According to Asia Society, developing a global perspective’ means that the education received enables people to understand the links between their own lives and those of people throughout the world, increase understanding of economic, social and political forces which shape life, develop skills, attitudes and values to enable people working together to bring about change for ‘common good’ and to take control of their own lives and work towards a more just and sustainable world where power and resources are more equitably shared.
3. Cross-Cultural Education- Originally thought of as the promotion of exchanges of students and other persons with the intention of influencing their political views and thereby modifying the climate of opinion in their native lands, now it seen as education that involves the reciprocal exchange of cultures among different people across the globe. There are elements of discourses involving cultural interactivity.
4. Global Competence involve the ability, capacity and disposition of an individual to investigate the world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas and take action on issues of global significance.
5. Globalization- According to Globalization101, globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. It is the increasing interconnectedness of societies.
6. Trans-Nationalism- is the increasing trans border relations of individuals, groups, and firms and to mobilizations beyond state boundaries. Individuals, groups, institutions and states interact with each other in a new global space where cultural and political characteristic of national societies are combined with emerging multilevel and multinational activities. It is a part of the process of globalization.
7. Cosmopolitan- the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality.
8. Transferability- the quality of being exchangeable; "sterling transferability affords a means of multilateral settlement for trade between non-dollar countries".
9. College and Career Readiness- According to ACT, this is defined the level of achievement a student needs to be ready to enroll and succeed without remediation in credit‐bearing first‐year in a post secondary institution, primarily defined as a two‐year or four‐year institutions, trade schools, and technical schools. Being career ready means possessing the key content knowledge and key learning skills and techniques sufficient to begin studies in a career pathway.
10. Interdisciplinary Education- emphasizes connections between discrete disciplines such as science and math. It is the process in which two or more subject areas are integrated with the goal of fostering enhanced learning.
Gallery
This is a photo gallery of some of my students and the students I met during our International Field Experience. What they do, how they learn and share what they learn have significant impact on global systems hence the need for them to be globally competent. The photos are to remind me and my school community of whom this learning is for. Globally competent students investigate the world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas and take action. This guide is formulated with them in mind.
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