What is Global Education?
Global education prepares students to understand & participate in the diverse, complex, & interdependent world in which we live. Global competency is the set of knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to live and work in a global society. Students demonstrate global competence through awareness and curiosity about how the world works—informed by disciplinary and interdisciplinary insights.
Globally competent students are able to perform the following four competences:
Globally competent students are able to perform the following four competences:
- Investigate the world beyond their immediate environment, framing significant problems and conducting well-crafted and age-appropriate research.
- Recognize perspectives, others’ and their own, articulating and explaining such perspectives thoughtfully and respectfully.
- Communicate ideas effectively with diverse audiences, bridging geographic, linguistic, ideological, and cultural barriers.
- Take action to improve conditions, viewing themselves as players in the world and participating reflectively.
Why is Global Education important?
As educators, we want to prepare our students to not only be college and career ready, but to also possess the knowledge, skills and dispositions to live and work in a global society.
Where does Arlington Public Schools fit into this? Arlington Public School’s mission is to “instill a love of learning in its students and prepare them to be responsible and productive global citizens” (APS, 2016). |
How To Use This Guide
This guide is designed to give you some tips and tools to help you bring more of a global perspective into your classroom and instruction, or to enhance what you are already doing.
This guide includes the following sections:
Although this website was designed as part of my Teachers for Global Classrooms program, I intend for it to be a living document and plan to update it frequently. If you have feedback, or a request for something you'd like me to include, please let me know!
This guide includes the following sections:
- Study: Learn more about Global Education, including useful assessment tools and technology available within our school/community.
- Teach: Explore a variety of useful resources to help you globalize your classroom and/or school community. It includes resources available in the Washington, D.C. area, as well as some international project-based learning opportunities.
- Travel: Read about my three weeks in the Philippines. Catch up on my travel blog, and read my reflection on the research question I completed while there.
Although this website was designed as part of my Teachers for Global Classrooms program, I intend for it to be a living document and plan to update it frequently. If you have feedback, or a request for something you'd like me to include, please let me know!
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the grantee’s own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.