Teaching our students to be globally competent is much more effective if it extends past the walls of our classrooms. These resources will help you to bring global education to your schools. There are checklists to see where you currently are at as well as resources for changing the educational paradigm at your school.
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015 the United Nations adopted 17 goals that were to serve as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. This site provides information about each of the 17 goals
The Globally Competent Learning Continuum
Every teacher comes into the classroom with different skill-sets, abilities, interests, and level of preparedness. This continuum provides an opportunity for educators to rate where they stand as far as their dispositions, knowledge and skills relating to global education are concerned. Clicking on an element brings you to the Global Learning Resource Library page for that specific element.
Education for Global Citizenship: A guide for schools
This guide is packed with practical information for mapping global citizenship across different subject areas and age groups. The provided curriculum includes a progression from pre-K through high school.
Example Performances of Global Competence
Incorporating global competencies into your curriculum doesn’t require you to rebuild it from the ground up. Start small by planning just some short lessons or activities that will fit into the units that you already have. The following are some examples of how you could begin to implement these practices into your curriculum.
Measuring Global Citizenship Education
The 49 measurement efforts in this catalog include tools that inform decisions around the teaching and learning of children and youth from the classroom to the national level. The tools from these measurement efforts were mapped to the topics of UNESCO’s three domains of global citizenship: cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioral.
This document provides the framework for what a global school should look like. Information is included for four domains that educators must consider: curriculum, institutional practices, professional development, school culture.
This checklist is a tool that teachers, curriculum developers, school administrators, and state education agency staff can use to gauge their work within the realm of global/international education.