Week 7 TGC Presentation Project

1. Mr. Adkins’ Great Adventure in Education
How Mr. Adkins Discovered the World
Globalized His Classroom and
Builds Global Competency in His Students
By William Adkins
Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy
Dallas, Texas

2. Mr. Adkins Goes to Japan!

3. ricilla –
You can go there?”

4. Pricilla’s view of the world.

5. More Travel Grants:
Toyota Internationals Teacher to
Costa Rica
Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad
to Senegal
Global Explorations for Educators

6. My Students Respond

7. Being Aware
is not
Being Prepared

9. What really is Global Competency?

10. Why is Global Competency Important?
Today’s Society is a Global Society:
Technology connects us all.
Economies are intertwined.
Pressing Global Issues:
Immigration
Terrorism
Environment
Human Rights

11. Are my students prepared to meet their world?

12. “We should think of schools as global
enterprises, not local entities, and draw on
global resources.”
Yong Zhao-Catching Up or Leading the Way:
American Education in the Age of Globalization

13. The Global Classroom presents more than an appreciation of
other customs, foods, music and celebrations.
The Global Classroom addresses timely relevant issues
and challenges students to use their creativity to answer
the tough questions.
Technology is a vital tool in our students’ exploration
and discovery that opens the door for global
collaboration within a global
community.

15. Source: Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage in the World

16. Investigate the World:
- Identify an issue, generate
questions, and explain its
significance.
- Use variety of languages,
sources and media t identify
and weigh relevant evidence.
- Analyze, integrate, and
synthesize evidence to
construct coherent responses.
- Develop argument based on
compelling evidence and
draws defensible conclusions.

17. Recognize Perspectives:
- Recognize and express their
own perspective and identify
influences on that perspective.
- Examine others’ perspectives
and identify what influenced
them.
- Explain the impact of cultural
interactions.
- Articulate how differential
access to knowledge,
technology, and resources
affects quality of life and
perspectives.

18. Communicate Ideas:
- Recognize and express how
diverse audiences perceive
meaning and how that affects
communication..
- Listen to and communicate
effectively to diverse people.
- Select and use appropriate
technology and media to
communicate with diverse
audiences.
- Reflect on how effective
communication affects
understanding and
collaboration in an
interdependent world.

19. Take Action:
- Identify and create
opportunities for personal
collaborative action to improve
conditions.
- Assess option and plan
actions based on evidence and
potential for impact.
- Act, personally or
collaboratively, in creative and
ethical ways to contribute to
improvement, and assess
impact of actions taken.
- Reflect on capacity to
advocate for and contribute to
improvement.

20. Where to begin:
Global Competence Matrix

21. English Language Arts
Investigate the World
Students investigate the world
beyond their immediate
environment.
Students:
-Explore a range of domestic and
international texts and media to
identify and frame researchable
questions of local, regional, or
global significance.
- Use a variety of domestic and
international sources, media, and
languages to identify and weigh
relevant evidence to address
globally significant researchable
questions.
- Analyze, integrate, synthesize,
and appropriately cite sources of
evidence collected to construct
coherent responses to globally
significant researchable
questions.
- Develop and logically and
persuasively present an
argument based on compelling
evidence that considers multiple
perspectives and draws
defensible conclusions about a
globally significant issue.
Take Action
Students translate their ideas
and findings into appropriate
action to improve conditions.
Students:
-Identify and create opportunities
for personal and collaborative
actions, using reading, writing,
speaking, and listening to address
situations, events, and issues to
improve conditions.
- Assess options and plan action
based on evidence from text and
media and the potential for
impact, taking into account
previous approaches, varied
perspectives, and potential
consequences.
- Use language arts skills to act,
personally and collaboratively, in
creative and ethical ways to
contribute to sustainable
improvement, and assess the
impact of the action.
- Reflect on how effective
reading, writing, listening and
speaking contribute to their
capacity to advocate for and
contribute to improvement
locally, regionally, or globally.
Communicate Ideas
Students communicate their
ideas effectively with diverse
audiences.
Students:
-Recognize and express how
diverse audiences may perceive
different meanings from the
same texts or media and how
those different perspectives
effect communication and
collaboration.
- Use appropriate language,
behavior, language arts strategies
(reading, writing, listening, and
speaking) and non-verbal
strategies to effectively
communicate with diverse
audiences.
- Select and use appropriate
technology, media, and literary
genres to share insights, findings,
concepts, and proposals with
diverse audiences.
- Reflect on how effective
communication in various genres
impacts understanding and
collaboration in an
interdependent world.
Recognize Perspectives
Students recognize their own
and others’ perspectives.
Students:
- Recognize and express their own
perspectives on situations,
events, issues, or phenomena,
and determine how that
perspective has developed or
changed based on exposure to a
variety of texts and media from
different periods and cultures.
- Examine perspectives of other
people, groups, or schools of
thought within and about texts
and media from around the
world, and identify the influences
on those perspectives.
- Explain how cultural interactions
within and around texts or media
are important to the situations,
events, issues, or themes that are
depicted and to readers’
understandings of those texts and
media.
- Explore and describe how
differential access to literacy and
to a range of works from different
genres, periods, and places
affects perspectives and quality of
life.

22. Mathematics
Investigate the World
Students investigate the world
beyond their immediate
environment.
Students:
-Explore a range of domestic and
international texts and media to
identify and frame researchable
questions of local, regional, or
global significance.
- Use a variety of domestic and
international sources, media, and
languages to identify and weigh
relevant evidence to address
globally significant researchable
questions.
- Analyze, integrate, synthesize,
and appropriately cite sources of
evidence collected to construct
coherent responses to globally
significant researchable
questions.
- Develop and logically and
persuasively present an
argument based on compelling
evidence that considers multiple
perspectives and draws
defensible conclusions about a
globally significant issue.
Take Action
Students translate their ideas
and findings into appropriate
action to improve conditions.
Students:
-Identify and create opportunities
for personal and collaborative
actions, using reading, writing,
speaking, and listening to address
situations, events, and issues to
improve conditions.
- Assess options and plan action
based on evidence from text and
media and the potential for
impact, taking into account
previous approaches, varied
perspectives, and potential
consequences.
- Use language arts skills to act,
personally and collaboratively, in
creative and ethical ways to
contribute to sustainable
improvement, and assess the
impact of the action.
- Reflect on how effective
reading, writing, listening and
speaking contribute to their
capacity to advocate for and
contribute to improvement
locally, regionally, or globally.
Communicate Ideas
Students communicate their
ideas effectively with diverse
audiences.
Students:
-Recognize and express how
diverse audiences may perceive
different meanings from the
same texts or media and how
those different perspectives
effect communication and
collaboration.
- Use appropriate language,
behavior, language arts strategies
(reading, writing, listening, and
speaking) and non-verbal
strategies to effectively
communicate with diverse
audiences.
- Select and use appropriate
technology, media, and literary
genres to share insights, findings,
concepts, and proposals with
diverse audiences.
- Reflect on how effective
communication in various genres
impacts understanding and
collaboration in an
interdependent world.
Recognize Perspectives
Students recognize their own
and others’ perspectives.
Students:
- Recognize and express their own
perspectives on situations,
events, issues, or phenomena,
and determine how that
perspective has developed or
changed based on exposure to a
variety of texts and media from
different periods and cultures.
- Examine perspectives of other
people, groups, or schools of
thought within and about texts
and media from around the
world, and identify the influences
on those perspectives.
- Explain how cultural interactions
within and around texts or media
are important to the situations,
events, issues, or themes that are
depicted and to readers’
understandings of those texts and
media.
- Explore and describe how
differential access to literacy and
to a range of works from different
genres, periods, and places
affects perspectives and quality of
life.

23. Science
Investigate the World
Students investigate the world
beyond their immediate
environment.
Students:
-Explore a range of domestic and
international texts and media to
identify and frame researchable
questions of local, regional, or
global significance.
- Use a variety of domestic and
international sources, media, and
languages to identify and weigh
relevant evidence to address
globally significant researchable
questions.
- Analyze, integrate, synthesize,
and appropriately cite sources of
evidence collected to construct
coherent responses to globally
significant researchable
questions.
- Develop and logically and
persuasively present an
argument based on compelling
evidence that considers multiple
perspectives and draws
defensible conclusions about a
globally significant issue.
Take Action
Students translate their ideas
and findings into appropriate
action to improve conditions.
Students:
-Identify and create opportunities
for personal and collaborative
actions, using reading, writing,
speaking, and listening to address
situations, events, and issues to
improve conditions.
- Assess options and plan action
based on evidence from text and
media and the potential for
impact, taking into account
previous approaches, varied
perspectives, and potential
consequences.
- Use language arts skills to act,
personally and collaboratively, in
creative and ethical ways to
contribute to sustainable
improvement, and assess the
impact of the action.
- Reflect on how effective
reading, writing, listening and
speaking contribute to their
capacity to advocate for and
contribute to improvement
locally, regionally, or globally.
Communicate Ideas
Students communicate their
ideas effectively with diverse
audiences.
Students:
-Recognize and express how
diverse audiences may perceive
different meanings from the
same texts or media and how
those different perspectives
effect communication and
collaboration.
- Use appropriate language,
behavior, language arts strategies
(reading, writing, listening, and
speaking) and non-verbal
strategies to effectively
communicate with diverse
audiences.
- Select and use appropriate
technology, media, and literary
genres to share insights, findings,
concepts, and proposals with
diverse audiences.
- Reflect on how effective
communication in various genres
impacts understanding and
collaboration in an
interdependent world.
Recognize Perspectives
Students recognize their own
and others’ perspectives.
Students:
- Recognize and express their own
perspectives on situations,
events, issues, or phenomena,
and determine how that
perspective has developed or
changed based on exposure to a
variety of texts and media from
different periods and cultures.
- Examine perspectives of other
people, groups, or schools of
thought within and about texts
and media from around the
world, and identify the influences
on those perspectives.
- Explain how cultural interactions
within and around texts or media
are important to the situations,
events, issues, or themes that are
depicted and to readers’
understandings of those texts and
media.
- Explore and describe how
differential access to literacy and
to a range of works from different
genres, periods, and places
affects perspectives and quality of
life.

24. Social Studies
Investigate the World
Students investigate the world
beyond their immediate
environment.
Students:
-Explore a range of domestic and
international texts and media to
identify and frame researchable
questions of local, regional, or
global significance.
- Use a variety of domestic and
international sources, media, and
languages to identify and weigh
relevant evidence to address
globally significant researchable
questions.
- Analyze, integrate, synthesize,
and appropriately cite sources of
evidence collected to construct
coherent responses to globally
significant researchable
questions.
- Develop and logically and
persuasively present an
argument based on compelling
evidence that considers multiple
perspectives and draws
defensible conclusions about a
globally significant issue.
Take Action
Students translate their ideas
and findings into appropriate
action to improve conditions.
Students:
-Identify and create opportunities
for personal and collaborative
actions, using reading, writing,
speaking, and listening to address
situations, events, and issues to
improve conditions.
- Assess options and plan action
based on evidence from text and
media and the potential for
impact, taking into account
previous approaches, varied
perspectives, and potential
consequences.
- Use language arts skills to act,
personally and collaboratively, in
creative and ethical ways to
contribute to sustainable
improvement, and assess the
impact of the action.
- Reflect on how effective
reading, writing, listening and
speaking contribute to their
capacity to advocate for and
contribute to improvement
locally, regionally, or globally.
Communicate Ideas
Students communicate their
ideas effectively with diverse
audiences.
Students:
-Recognize and express how
diverse audiences may perceive
different meanings from the
same texts or media and how
those different perspectives
effect communication and
collaboration.
- Use appropriate language,
behavior, language arts strategies
(reading, writing, listening, and
speaking) and non-verbal
strategies to effectively
communicate with diverse
audiences.
- Select and use appropriate
technology, media, and literary
genres to share insights, findings,
concepts, and proposals with
diverse audiences.
- Reflect on how effective
communication in various genres
impacts understanding and
collaboration in an
interdependent world.
Recognize Perspectives
Students recognize their own
and others’ perspectives.
Students:
- Recognize and express their own
perspectives on situations,
events, issues, or phenomena,
and determine how that
perspective has developed or
changed based on exposure to a
variety of texts and media from
different periods and cultures.
- Examine perspectives of other
people, groups, or schools of
thought within and about texts
and media from around the
world, and identify the influences
on those perspectives.
- Explain how cultural interactions
within and around texts or media
are important to the situations,
events, issues, or themes that are
depicted and to readers’
understandings of those texts and
media.
- Explore and describe how
differential access to literacy and
to a range of works from different
genres, periods, and places
affects perspectives and quality of
life.

25. World Languages
Investigate the World
Students investigate the world
beyond their immediate
environment.
Students:
-Explore a range of domestic and
international texts and media to
identify and frame researchable
questions of local, regional, or
global significance.
- Use a variety of domestic and
international sources, media, and
languages to identify and weigh
relevant evidence to address
globally significant researchable
questions.
- Analyze, integrate, synthesize,
and appropriately cite sources of
evidence collected to construct
coherent responses to globally
significant researchable
questions.
- Develop and logically and
persuasively present an
argument based on compelling
evidence that considers multiple
perspectives and draws
defensible conclusions about a
globally significant issue.
Take Action
Students translate their ideas
and findings into appropriate
action to improve conditions.
Students:
-Identify and create opportunities
for personal and collaborative
actions, using reading, writing,
speaking, and listening to address
situations, events, and issues to
improve conditions.
- Assess options and plan action
based on evidence from text and
media and the potential for
impact, taking into account
previous approaches, varied
perspectives, and potential
consequences.
- Use language arts skills to act,
personally and collaboratively, in
creative and ethical ways to
contribute to sustainable
improvement, and assess the
impact of the action.
- Reflect on how effective
reading, writing, listening and
speaking contribute to their
capacity to advocate for and
contribute to improvement
locally, regionally, or globally.
Communicate Ideas
Students communicate their
ideas effectively with diverse
audiences.
Students:
-Recognize and express how
diverse audiences may perceive
different meanings from the
same texts or media and how
those different perspectives
effect communication and
collaboration.
- Use appropriate language,
behavior, language arts strategies
(reading, writing, listening, and
speaking) and non-verbal
strategies to effectively
communicate with diverse
audiences.
- Select and use appropriate
technology, media, and literary
genres to share insights, findings,
concepts, and proposals with
diverse audiences.
- Reflect on how effective
communication in various genres
impacts understanding and
collaboration in an
interdependent world.
Recognize Perspectives
Students recognize their own
and others’ perspectives.
Students:
- Recognize and express their own
perspectives on situations,
events, issues, or phenomena,
and determine how that
perspective has developed or
changed based on exposure to a
variety of texts and media from
different periods and cultures.
- Examine perspectives of other
people, groups, or schools of
thought within and about texts
and media from around the
world, and identify the influences
on those perspectives.
- Explain how cultural interactions
within and around texts or media
are important to the situations,
events, issues, or themes that are
depicted and to readers’
understandings of those texts and
media.
- Explore and describe how
differential access to literacy and
to a range of works from different
genres, periods, and places
affects perspectives and quality of
life.

26. The Arts
Investigate the World
Students investigate the world
beyond their immediate
environment.
Students:
-Explore a range of domestic and
international texts and media to
identify and frame researchable
questions of local, regional, or
global significance.
- Use a variety of domestic and
international sources, media, and
languages to identify and weigh
relevant evidence to address
globally significant researchable
questions.
- Analyze, integrate, synthesize,
and appropriately cite sources of
evidence collected to construct
coherent responses to globally
significant researchable
questions.
- Develop and logically and
persuasively present an
argument based on compelling
evidence that considers multiple
perspectives and draws
defensible conclusions about a
globally significant issue.
Take Action
Students translate their ideas
and findings into appropriate
action to improve conditions.
Students:
-Identify and create opportunities
for personal and collaborative
actions, using reading, writing,
speaking, and listening to address
situations, events, and issues to
improve conditions.
- Assess options and plan action
based on evidence from text and
media and the potential for
impact, taking into account
previous approaches, varied
perspectives, and potential
consequences.
- Use language arts skills to act,
personally and collaboratively, in
creative and ethical ways to
contribute to sustainable
improvement, and assess the
impact of the action.
- Reflect on how effective
reading, writing, listening and
speaking contribute to their
capacity to advocate for and
contribute to improvement
locally, regionally, or globally.
Communicate Ideas
Students communicate their
ideas effectively with diverse
audiences.
Students:
-Recognize and express how
diverse audiences may perceive
different meanings from the
same texts or media and how
those different perspectives
effect communication and
collaboration.
- Use appropriate language,
behavior, language arts strategies
(reading, writing, listening, and
speaking) and non-verbal
strategies to effectively
communicate with diverse
audiences.
- Select and use appropriate
technology, media, and literary
genres to share insights, findings,
concepts, and proposals with
diverse audiences.
- Reflect on how effective
communication in various genres
impacts understanding and
collaboration in an
interdependent world.
Recognize Perspectives
Students recognize their own
and others’ perspectives.
Students:
- Recognize and express their own
perspectives on situations,
events, issues, or phenomena,
and determine how that
perspective has developed or
changed based on exposure to a
variety of texts and media from
different periods and cultures.
- Examine perspectives of other
people, groups, or schools of
thought within and about texts
and media from around the
world, and identify the influences
on those perspectives.
- Explain how cultural interactions
within and around texts or media
are important to the situations,
events, issues, or themes that are
depicted and to readers’
understandings of those texts and
media.
- Explore and describe how
differential access to literacy and
to a range of works from different
genres, periods, and places
affects perspectives and quality of
life.

27. Preparing Today’s Students for
the Global Society of Tomorrow