Global Education:The responsibility is oursPresentation for the Sparks High School Administration & Staff

Agenda

•What is global education•Why we should care• How do we do it

What is global education?Answers vary• Global Education is not a subject, but a dimension that runs

through the curriculum, an extra filter to help children make sense of all the information and opinion the world is throwing at them.

-- World Studies Trust Global Teacher Project

• Enabling young people to participate in shaping a better shared future for the world is at the heart of global education. It emphasizes the unity and interdependence of human society, developing a sense of self and appreciation of cultural diversity, affirmation of social justice and human rights, building peace and actions for a sustainable future in different times and places.

-- Education Services of Australia

What is global education?Answers vary• Education for global citizenship helps enable young people to

develop the core competencies which allow them to actively engage with the world, and help to make it a more just and sustainable place.

• Global citizenship is not an additional subject, it is an ethos. It is best implemented through a whole-school approach, involving everyone from learners themselves to the wider community.

-- Oxfam Education

What is global education?Simply put …• Education that gives students the capacity and disposition to

understand and act on issues of global significance.

• Globally competent students are aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world and how it works. They can use the big ideas, tools, methods, and languages that are central to any discipline to engage the pressing issues of our time. They investigate such issues, recognize multiple perspectives, communicate their views, and take action to improve conditions.

-- Asia Society

Think PBLs that connect students to the world, and seek to change that world.

Why should we care• Education is the answer to many of the world’s problems.• Global education motivates students by thinking globally,

while acting locally.

Students motivated

Why we should care

•Key to global prosperity“Education is still the key to eliminating gender inequities, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, and to fostering peace. And in a knowledge economy, education is the new currency by which nations maintain economic competitiveness and global prosperity.”Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addressing the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

• Duncan

NBC News photo

Why should we care

•Key to global prosperity• Our economy is so globally interconnected that

1-in-5 jobs in the U.S. is now tied to international trade.

• 95% of consumers & three-quarters of the world’s purchasing power are outside the U.S.

Why should we care

•Key to global prosperity

Nevada Exports/2013$150,031,751,552• Nevada Imports• $133,041,575,871

Why should we care

• All the major challenges, whether in health, environment, poverty, or peace and security, require cooperation across borders and boundaries.

Why we should care• Globalization: It’s a small world after all• Globalization describes the growing political, social, cultural,

economic and technological interconnectedness and interdependence of the world today. Globalization has been described as the world getting smaller - as markets and people become more accessible to one another.

• An increase in international trade has created an economic interdependence between many states. This 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.

• -- Global Envision, Portland State University

Why we should care

• Migration is changing the demographic fabric of our communities, bringing us in daily contact with people from around the globe. • Immigrants from Asia and Latin America help

explain why school systems in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington, D.C., are now “majority minority.”• And more than ever before, citizens in the United

States are expected to vote and act on issues of global importance.

Why we should care

• In 2010 the total number of migrants in the world was expected to hit 214 million.• 50 million were estimated

to be living in the U.S. • If all migrants were

considered one country, it would be the fourth largest in the world in population, after China (1.4 billion), India (1.2 billion), and the U.S. (317 million).

-- The United Nations Population Division

Why we should careAccording to a 2006 National Geographic-Roper poll,

• Only 37 percent of young Americans could find Iraq on a map, and 88 percent could not locate Afghanistan. Many overestimate the population of the United States and underestimate that of China.

Why we should careNational Geographic-Roper poll

• Only 50 percent of high school students study a world language, and of those, fully 70 percent take only one year of introductory Spanish.

Globally competent students• Thriving in a world of diversity involves communicating with

diverse audiences — being able to recognize how different audiences may interpret information informed by their own perspectives.

• It demands that students listen and communicate carefully and respectfully, using appropriate languages and technologies to do so.

• It encourages students to find solutions to problems and take actions to help correct those problems.• It produces students who tackle difficult assignments, are motivated to learn, and ready to take a stand.

Globally competent students• Globally competent students are able to perform the

following four competences:

• 1. Investigate the world beyond their immediate environment , framing significant problems and conducting well-crafted and age-appropriate research.• 2. Recognize perspectives, others’ and their

own, articulating and explaining such perspectives thoughtfully and respectfully.

Globally competent students

• 3. Communicate ideas effectively with diverse audiences, bridging geographic, linguistic, ideological, and cultural barriers.• 4. Take action to improve conditions, viewingthemselves as players in the world and participating Reflectively.

How to do global• How Poverty Affects Children: Shasha’s Story is a unit of three lessons designed• To raise awareness about the multiple causes ofpoverty.• To increase students’ understanding as to the range and scope of impact that poverty has on children’s lives. • To develop empathy with children experiencing extreme poverty.• To explore solutions and programs that can help alleviate poverty.

Examples

How to do globalIt’s possible in MathematicsStudents can also experience the world in mathematics, a class that is not intuitively “global.” • Use global data for problem solving, or art and architectural designs from various cultures in the study of geometry. • Students can learn about the worldwide origins of mathematics• The contributions of many cultures to the development of the field as we know it today.

Checklists

Why? The Conclusion• The world we are preparing students for is qualitatively

different from the industrial world in which our public school systems were created.

• Over the last decades numerous reports and policy statements have emphasized the need for new skills for the 21st century.

• This framework for global competence responds to the demands of a changing world differently, recognizing the central role that global interdependence will play in the lives of our youth.