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educating for global competence, • encouraging creativity and «maker thinking» in children, • growing up in the digital age, and • making learning and thinking visible.
To reach every student — especially the most marginalized — developing the capacity of educators to teach
for global competence requires systematic professional learning.
A new publication by Asia Society and OECD presents a new
framework for global competence and provides practical guidance and examples of how educators can embed global competence into their existing practices.
The symposium shared key findings from Teaching
for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World, a new publication from the Center for Global Education and OECD.
The results from PISA 2018 can inform potential changes in policy to strengthen
education for global competence, including building the capacity of the teaching force to do so.
The program is a mix of self - paced learning, facilitated group discussion, and job - embedded learning that will help educators understand, advocate for, and implement
strategies for global competence with their students.
The authors of Educating
for Global Competence assert that in order to solve the earth's most pressing problems, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge are needed.
The inaugural
tests for global competence will take place in about 80 countries next year - and the results are going to be pushed centre - stage in the following round of Pisa rankings.
A panel discussion, «Perspectives and Complexities in
Educating for Global Competence,» will follow Schleicher's remarks, with HGSE Professor Howard Gardner, senior director of Project Zero; Kate Ireland, director of global education from the District of Columbia Public Schools; Siva Kumari, director general of International Baccalaureate; and Joan Soble, a retired teacher from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
One finding linked successful instruction to
teaching for global competence: by incorporating local and global perspectives into instruction, teachers can better differentiate instruction and offer flexibility for all learners.
For more suggestions about teaching students to become citizens of the world, download a free copy of Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World (PDF) by Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony Jackson.
However, the school curriculum goes beyond multicultural songs and dances; it is based on Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World (PDF), a text based on interdisciplinary - instruction research from Harvard University's Project Zero and pedagogical work by global - education institutions such as the International Baccalaureate, the Asia Society, Oxfam, and Facing History and Ourselves.
Educating
for global competence: Preparing our youth to engage the world.
Last year, all staff, including language - immersion instructional assistants, participated in a book study of Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage in the World (PDF).
Project Zero Principal Investigator Veronica Boix Mansilla is celebrating the release of her new book, Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage.
Read the book that introduced the definition of global competence, Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.
A live and interactive discussion with Asia Society Vice President for Education, Tony Jackson, and Harvard professor, Veronica Boix - Mansilla, authors of Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.
A new publication from both organizations, entitled Teaching
for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World, sets forward a new framework for global competence developed by OECD, which aligns closely with the definition developed by the Center for Global Education, and provides practical guidance and examples of how educators can embed global competence into their existing curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
One of its findings concludes that successful instruction is linked to teaching
for global competence.
Educating
for global competence is an accessible, practical approach that is not beyond the reach of the average teacher.
• Educating
for Global Competence: How do learners demonstrate global competence?
She is the author of multiple publications including Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.
His research interests include supporting educators to teach for understanding and build a classroom culture of thinking; pedagogies focused on educating
for global competence; and the challenges of sustaining change initiatives in educational settings.