This document discusses instructional leadership for developing global competence in students. It outlines how the modern economy requires skills like technological literacy, critical thinking, and cultural awareness. Teachers need to help students develop knowledge of other cultures and issues, investigate topics from a global perspective, recognize different perspectives, communicate ideas to diverse audiences, and take informed action. The document provides examples of how to teach these competencies and develop them in teachers through experiences like international travel. It emphasizes that educating students for a globalized world requires new approaches to teaching and curriculum planning.

1. Instructional Leadership for
Global Competence
Shari Albright. Ed.D.
Angela Breidenstein, Ed.D.
Morgan Kern, M.A.
Trinity University
July 2012

2. A Changing World Demands
Changing Skills

3. The Next Economy is
A Science and Knowledge Economy
- need scientific and technological literacy
A Resource-Challenged Economy
- need critical thinking about sustainable economies
A Globally Interdependent Economy
- global competence is a core competence
A Demographically Diverse Economy
- requires cross-cultural leadership skills
An Innovation-Driven Economy
- requires students who can learn how to learn and adapt to rapid
change

4. “We are in a 21st century world where
jobs can be shipped wherever there is an
internet connection, where a child born in
Dallas is now competing with a child in
New Delhi, where your best job
qualification is not what you do, but what
you know."
President Barack Obama, 2011

5. 98% of educators and 99% of school
principals believe that global
competency is important to students'
future success.
2010 Survey of the American Teacher
The MetLife Foundation

6. What is Global Competence?
 Knowledge of other world regions, cultures, and
global/international issues
 Skills in communicating in languages other than
English, working in global or cross-cultural
environments, and using information from
different sources around the world
 Values/perspectives of respect and concern for
other cultures and peoples

7. How do we teach in order to build global
competence in our students?
 Knowing the World
 Investigating the World
 Recognizing Perspectives
 Communicating Ideas
 Taking Action

8. Knowing the World
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Knowledge and
Understanding Matters. Students need:
 Deep knowledge and understanding of seminal content and skills
within academic disciplines
 Capacity to use disciplinary methods of inquiry creatively and
productively
 Ability to understand prevailing world conditions, issues, and trends
through disciplinary-based and interdisciplinary learning
 Substantive engagement, over time, with the world’s complexities
and interrelatedness

9. Investigate the World
Students investigate the world beyond their
immediate environment. They:
 Identify an issue, generate a question, and explain the significance
of locally, regionally, or globally focused researchable questions.
 Use a variety of languages and domestic and international sources
and media to identify and weigh relevant evidence to address a
globally significant researchable question.
 Analyze, integrate and synthesize evidence collected to construct
coherent responses to globally significant researchable questions.
 Develop an argument based on compelling evidence that considers
multiple perspectives and draws defensible conclusions.

10. Recognize Perspectives
Students recognize their own and others’
perspectives. They:
 Recognize and express their own perspective on situations, events,
issues or phenomena and identify the influences on that
perspective.
 Examine perspectives of other people, groups or schools of thought
and identify the influences on those perspectives.
 Explain how cultural interactions influence situations, events, issues
or phenomena, including the development of knowledge.
 Articulate how differential access to knowledge, technology, and
resources affects quality of life and perspectives.

11. Communicate Ideas
Students communicate their ideas effectively
with diverse audiences. They:
 Recognize and express how diverse audiences may perceive
different meanings from the same information and how that affects
communication.
 Listen to and communicate effectively with diverse people, using
appropriate verbal and nonverbal behavior, languages, and
strategies.
 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.

12. Take Action
Students translate their ideas and findings into
appropriate actions to improve conditions. They:
 Identify and create opportunities for personal or collaborative action
to address situations, events, issues or phenomena in ways that
improve conditions.
 Assess options and plan actions based on evidence and the
potential for impact, taking into account previous approaches, varied
perspectives and potential consequences.
 Act, personally or collaboratively, in creative and ethical ways to
contribute to improvement locally, regionally or globally and assess
the impact of actions taken.
 Reflect on their capacity to advocate for and contribute to
improvement locally, regionally or globally.

13. Looking at Student Work Through
Global Competence Lens
“Border Crossings”

14. Discussion Question
 What elements of global competence did
you see evidence of in the video?

15. Your Own Learning
 Describe a time in your adult life when you
had a significant experience that helped
you develop your own global competence
as a teacher (and/or person).
 Whathappened? Where? With whom?
 Why was it significant?

16. When Adults Learn
Instrumental Knowers Socializing Knowers Self-Authoring Knowers
• are most comfortable with • focus on others • are reflective about
concrete, specific • believe that group needs themselves and their
processes are important context
• believe that rules are • can put a group’s needs • can live with ambiguity
important and search for before their own • evaluate their own
the “right way” • can be collaborative and actions according to
• have limited interest in reflective internal standards
reflection or collaboration • are uncomfortable with • expect and accept
when their own needs are conflicting opinions, conflict
not met values, and behaviors • consider their personal
goals and ideas very
important
• are able to stand in
opposition to a group
(Breidenstein, et al in press; Drago-Severson, 2008; : Kegan, 1998)

17. Developing as a Professional
Educator & Deepening Global
Competence
 Diverse learning experiences:
 Teaching experience (including beyond the
classroom)
 Planning experience (including with
standards, performance outcomes)
 Travel/expeditionary learning experience
 Working as a member of learning community

18. One Student’s Experience…
 Morgan Kern – internship at the
International School on the sophomore
team
 Summer experience
 Team travel preparation (curriculum, logistics)
and implementation
 Lead teaching unit
 Future plans…

19. Small Group Brainstorming
Question
 What kinds of teaching and curricular
planning would be necessary to nurture
the development of global competence in
students?

20. Whole Group Brainstorming
 What inservice strategies or tools might
we use to support and nurture that kind of
teaching and planning?

21. One New Tool – myCAP
(My Cultural Awareness Profile)
 A cultural awareness self-reflection tool for pre-service teachers (although
could be used with in-service teachers)
 myCAP engages pre-service teachers in self-reflection across four
dimensions of cultural awareness:
 Dimension 1: Exploring the global context (global perspectives)
 Dimension 2: Learning about different cultures (cultural understandings)
 Dimension 3: Knowing ourselves as cultural (perspective
consciousness)
 Dimension 4: Communicating across cultural differences (intercultural
communication)
 Available free of charge at http://www.nafsa.org/resourcelibrary/

22. Final Thoughts
To the extent that it is possible,
You must live in the world today
As you wish everyone to live
In the world to come.
That can be your contribution.
Otherwise, the world you want
Will never be formed. Why?
Because you’re waiting for others to do
What you’re not doing;
And they are waiting for you,
And so on.
- Alice Walker