Hone Your Skills
Within this section of the website you will find many resources for honing your skills as a global educator. It is also a space to share! As we all grow globally, please add any good ideas or new suggestions to the interactive Padlets. Scroll down below to assess your current global skills or access Oxfam's global guides for content and schools. For more information on grading global education, digital learning resources, or additional resources click the buttons below.
Pre-Test - Assess Your Current Global Skills
What teacher doesn't like a good pre-test? Well maybe not every teacher, but this is a fun one! Use the Globally Competent Learning Continuum pictures below to better understand your current skill level. What do you already bring to the table? Where could you improve? How do you want to grow forward?
- Look at each of the twelve pictures below one at a time.
- Determine your current level of global competence.
- Reflect on the experiences (professionally and personally) that have shaped your understanding.
- Use the scale above the pictures as a guide (Nascent through Advanced)
- Identify 2-4 areas where you would like to improve.
- Take action by reviewing the resources specific to your competency goal on the ASCD website.
- Resources include: lesson plans, readings, videos, articles and professional development specific to each competency level!
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A printable copy of this document can be found here: https://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/2016colloquia/2016_teachered_GCTC.pdf
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How About Some Guidance?
Oxfam Education offers some wonderful teacher guides for global citizenship.
"These guides are the foundations of great global citizenship. They outline the key principles of taking a global approach to teaching and learning, as well as practical guidance for embedding it into your lessons. Each guide has been created with teachers in mind and includes testimonies, teaching ideas and participatory activities to help you on your way. Whether you want to explore the world in the classroom or embed global citizenship across your whole school, we have a guide for you." - Oxfam, 2017
"These guides are the foundations of great global citizenship. They outline the key principles of taking a global approach to teaching and learning, as well as practical guidance for embedding it into your lessons. Each guide has been created with teachers in mind and includes testimonies, teaching ideas and participatory activities to help you on your way. Whether you want to explore the world in the classroom or embed global citizenship across your whole school, we have a guide for you." - Oxfam, 2017
The guides for teaching global citizenship are full of fantastic resources that include great quotes, topics that translate easily to global education by content area, case studies of global education, lesson plans, and exterior links and resources. I suggest starting with your particular content area and then moving to the Global Citizenship Guide for Teachers to begin. The combination of these two will certainly produce immediate results in your growing global classroom!
The guides linked below include:
The guides linked below include:
- Global Citizenship Guide for Schools
- Global Citizenship Guide for Teachers
- Teaching Controversial Topics Guide
- ELA and Global Citizenship Guide
- Math and Global Citizenship Guide
- Science and Global Citizenship Guide
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