Sentences with phrase «foster global competence»

Learn to foster global competence in your school by helping to build out a leading K - 12 global curriculum.

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Specific lines of inquiry will include: engaging complexity (developing tools to support learners to engage with complex contemporary issues); developing global thinking / competence (fostering perspective taking, empathy, recognizing perspectives); transfer of learning; balancing reflection and intuition; and emergent aspects of learning (how some understandings and skills may emerge best through bottom - up processes as rather than through direct instruction).

Specific lines of inquiry include: engaging complexity (developing tools to support learners to engage with complex contemporary issues); developing global thinking / competence (fostering perspective taking, empathy, recognizing perspectives); transfer of learning; balancing reflection and intuition; and emergent aspects of learning (how some understandings and skills may emerge best through bottom - up processes as rather than through direct instruction).

Based on comparative study of curriculum innovations, I can point out six «beyonds,» where educators are venturing beyond the traditional disciplines, in brief: beyond content, infusing 21st century skills, competences, etc.; beyond local, embracing global perspectives, problems, and studies; beyond topics, transforming topics into tools of broad understanding; beyond the traditional disciplines, renewing and extending those disciplines; beyond discrete disciplines, embracing interdisciplinary topics and problems; beyond academic engagement, fostering personal significance, commitment, and passion.

At a neighborhood school in Washington, D.C., we watch as teachers infuse global themes into everyday lessons — a kindergarten discussion on community helpers, a 2nd grade reading class, and 4th grade math and history lessons — to foster the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of global competence.

Using classroom examples from science, math, social studies, physical education, and English Language Arts, the videos demonstrate how globally - minded teachers foster the dispositions of global competence: openness, respect, empathy, appreciation for diversity, valuing of multiple perspectives, and commitment to equity worldwide.

The pain of the race riots of the mid 1960s probably shaped some of the education policies to foster racial inclusion and tolerance, and those memories are likely at the root of some of the current emphasis of the curriculum on the development of cross-cultural competence and global citizenship.