A comprehensive guide to teaching global competence and engaging our students with the world. If you explore nothing else, this downloadable book is an invaluable resource for understanding the value and importance of developing our students' global competencies. The text explores the four capacities associated with global competence and how they relate to teaching and learning. The authors provide a rationale for engaging a curricular framework of global education, they describe four key 21st century skills (investigating the world, recognizing perspectives, communicating ideas, and taking action), they offer clear instruction on how to incorporate global education across disciplines and grade bands, and ultimately they explore how to create a culture of global education at your institution.
I used this framework in developing my first global education lesson plan for Biology on emergent disease. Visit my Teach page to learn more about how I'm embedding global education in my curriculum. |
An entire school might be interested in the Global Competence Aptitude Assessment to determine as an institution where they are at in order to best determine where they want to go and how they want to get there.
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A multitude of assessment tools for you and your students from the University of Michigan. I really like the Global Perspectives Inventory and the Global Competence Inventory, but you may find others even more useful! |
Great tool for teachers - find out where you are on the continuum of global competency and build capacity all in one place.
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