3. Global Competence
The capacity and disposition to
understand and act on issues of
global significance.
Tony Jackson and Veronica Biox Mansilla
Educating for Global Competence
4. Performance Based Learning – 8 Essentials
Signficant Content 21st Century Skills
Need to Know Inquiry and Innovation
Driving Question Feedback and Revision
Student Voice and Public Shared Products
Choice
John Larner and John R. Mergendoller, PhD., Buck Institute for Education
5. A System to Produce College Ready,
Globally Competent Graduates
International Studies Schools Network (ISSN) Design
A school design that fosters learning for global competence and college readiness
across school culture, governance, partnerships, professional development, and
curriculum, assessment, and instruction in over 25 schools across the country.
Graduation Performance System (GPS)
A performance-based assessment system implemented
in ISSN schools that drives the continuous improvement
of teacher instruction and student performance
towards college readiness and global competence.
Graduate Profile
Upon graduation, ISSN students are:
•Ready for college and career
•Globally competent, with the
knowledge and skills required for
success in the global era
6. Graduation Performance System
A process or approach to planning and instruction that leads to
the production of student work through performance-based
learning.
This student work can be assessed in relation to a set of
performance outcomes and rubrics that demonstrate college
readiness and global competence.
The performance outcomes are designed for:
• 6 core subject areas
• Interdisciplinary coursework
• Alignment to Common Core/State Standards
7. Performance Outcomes
Investigate the World: Generate Global Knowledge
Recognize Perspectives: Apply Cross Cultural
Knowledge
Take Action: Enact Global Solutions
Communicate Ideas: Connect and Collaborate
Across Boundaries
9. How the Graduation Performance System Works
Standards/
Portfolio of College Ready
GPS
and Globally
Performance Student
Competent
Outcomes & Work Graduate
Rubrics
This is a continuous cycle that:
•repeats across the curriculum
•happens in the classroom and in
out-of-school time
•drives improvement among
teachers and students
15. What is one idea, strategy or question
you will bring forward?
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Editor's Notes
Use definition of global competence to produce a graduate profile.
The GPS establishes a continues learning cycle within schools that produces college ready and globally competent graduates. The GPS enables teachers to collaboratively review students ’ work in relation to the assessment criteria, and to collectively learn from analyzing the data how to refine and improve their instructional practices. In turn, teachers use formative and summative assessment and discussion of students ’ progress to enable students to refine and improve their performance. The GPS provides a reliable and valid system for assessing the quality of student work in relation to commonly held criteria for success for teachers and school leaders within each ISSN school and across the multi-state network. As such, the GPS supports opportunities for network wide organizational learning in support of improved practice.
