“Global competence is the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance.”
Globally conscious individuals:
•are aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world
•use big ideas, tools, methods, and languages to engage the pressing issues of our time
•deploy and develop their skills to investigate world issues, recognize multiple perspectives, communicate effectively, and take action to improve conditions.
Source- Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World by Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony Jackson (xiii)
•are aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world
•use big ideas, tools, methods, and languages to engage the pressing issues of our time
•deploy and develop their skills to investigate world issues, recognize multiple perspectives, communicate effectively, and take action to improve conditions.
Source- Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World by Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony Jackson (xiii)
Why Global Learning?
When I look around at the faces in my classroom, I see a reflection of the world.
Not one carbon copy, but a palette of unique identities.
Young seed minds ready to sprout into a beautiful garden of changemakers,
but they can only get there if their soil is cultivated through global learning.
Add the nutrients of investigating the word,
Open the windows and doors to let the cultures of the world blow over them
and change them.
Pull the weeds of bias and prejudice,
add a dash of sunshine and hope.
Broaden perspectives,
and empower them to feel like they CAN make a difference.
They WILL make a difference.
They MUST make a difference.
Then, the garden of students can bloom to their fullest.
A garden of action takers.
Communicators.
Stereotype breakers.
School leaders.
Changemakers.
Not one carbon copy, but a palette of unique identities.
Young seed minds ready to sprout into a beautiful garden of changemakers,
but they can only get there if their soil is cultivated through global learning.
Add the nutrients of investigating the word,
Open the windows and doors to let the cultures of the world blow over them
and change them.
Pull the weeds of bias and prejudice,
add a dash of sunshine and hope.
Broaden perspectives,
and empower them to feel like they CAN make a difference.
They WILL make a difference.
They MUST make a difference.
Then, the garden of students can bloom to their fullest.
A garden of action takers.
Communicators.
Stereotype breakers.
School leaders.
Changemakers.