Global education presentation for intended audience of Sparks High administrators and staff.

1. Global Education:
The responsibility is ours
Presentation for the Sparks High School Administration & Staff

2. Agenda
• What is global education
• Why we should care
• How do we do it

3. What is global education?
Answers vary
• Global Education is not a subject, but a dimension that runs
through the curriculum, an extra filter to help children make
sense of all the information and opinion the world is throwing
at them.
-- World Studies Trust Global Teacher Project
• Enabling young people to participate in shaping a better
shared future for the world is at the heart of global education.
It emphasizes the unity and interdependence of human
society, developing a sense of self and appreciation of cultural
diversity, affirmation of social justice and human rights,
building peace and actions for a sustainable future in different
times and places.
-- Education Services of Australia

4. What is global education?
Answers vary
• Education for global citizenship helps enable young people to
develop the core competencies which allow them to actively
engage with the world, and help to make it a more just and
sustainable place.
• Global citizenship is not an additional subject, it is an ethos. It
is best implemented through a whole-school approach,
involving everyone from learners themselves to the wider
community.
-- Oxfam Education

5. What is global education?
Simply put …
• Education that gives students the capacity and disposition to
understand and act on issues of global significance.
• Globally competent students are aware, curious, and interested
in learning about the world and how it works. They can use the
big ideas, tools, methods, and languages that are central to any
discipline to engage the pressing issues of our time. They
investigate such issues, recognize multiple perspectives,
communicate their views, and take action to improve conditions.
-- Asia Society
Think PBLs that connect students to the
world, and seek to change that world.

6. Why should we care
• Education is the answer to many of the world’s problems.
• Global education motivates students by thinking globally,
while acting locally.
Students motivated

7. Why we should care
•Key to global prosperity
“Education is still the key to eliminating gender inequities, to
reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, and to fostering
peace. And in a knowledge economy, education is the new
currency by which nations maintain economic competitiveness
and global prosperity.”
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
addressing the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
• Duncan
NBC News photo

9. Why should we care
•Key to global prosperity
• Our economy is so globally interconnected that
1-in-5 jobs in the U.S. is now tied to international
trade.
• 95% of consumers & three-quarters of the
world’s purchasing power are outside the U.S.

10. Why should we care
•Key to global prosperity
Nevada Exports/2013
$150,031,751,552
• Nevada Imports
• $133,041,575,871

11. Why should we care
• All the major challenges, whether in
health, environment, poverty, or
peace and security, require
cooperation across borders and
boundaries.

12. Why we should care
• Globalization: It’s a small world after all
• Globalization describes the growing political, social, cultural,
economic and technological interconnectedness and
interdependence of the world today. Globalization has been
described as the world getting smaller - as markets and people
become more accessible to one another.
• An increase in international trade has created an economic
interdependence between many states. This has effects on the
environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic
development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being
in societies around the world.
• -- Global Envision, Portland State University

13. Why we should care
• Migration is changing the demographic fabric of
our communities, bringing us in daily contact with
people from around the globe.
• Immigrants from Asia and Latin America help
explain why school systems in Arizona, California,
Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New
Mexico, Texas, and Washington, D.C., are now
“majority minority.”
• And more than ever before, citizens in the United
States are expected to vote and act on issues of
global importance.

14. Why we should care
• In 2010 the total number of
migrants in the world was
expected to hit 214 million.
• 50 million were estimated
to be living in the U.S.
• If all migrants were
considered one country, it
would be the fourth largest
in the world in population,
after China (1.4 billion),
India (1.2 billion), and the
U.S. (317 million).
-- The United
Nations Population
Division

15. Why we should care
According to a 2006 National
Geographic-Roper poll,
• Only 37 percent of young
Americans could find Iraq
on a map, and 88
percent could not locate
Afghanistan. Many
overestimate the
population of the United
States and
underestimate that of
China.

16. Why we should care
National Geographic-Roper poll
• Only 50 percent of high
school students study a
world language, and of
those, fully 70 percent take
only one year of
introductory Spanish.

17. Globally competent students
• Thriving in a world of diversity involves communicating with
diverse audiences — being able to recognize how different
audiences may interpret information informed by their own
perspectives.
• It demands that students listen and communicate carefully and
respectfully, using appropriate languages and technologies to do
so.
• It encourages students to find solutions
to problems and take actions to help
correct those problems.
• It produces students who tackle difficult
assignments, are motivated to learn, and
ready to take a stand.

18. Globally competent students
• Globally competent students are able to perform the
following four competences:
• 1. Investigate the world beyond their immediate
environment , framing significant problems and
conducting well-crafted and age-appropriate
research.
• 2. Recognize perspectives, others’ and their
own, articulating and explaining such
perspectives thoughtfully and respectfully.

19. Globally competent students
• 3. Communicate ideas effectively with diverse
audiences, bridging geographic, linguistic,
ideological, and cultural barriers.
• 4. Take action to improve conditions, viewing
themselves as players in
the world and participating
Reflectively.

21. How to do global
• How Poverty Affects
Children: Shasha’s Story is
a unit of three lessons
designed
• To raise awareness about
the multiple causes of
poverty.
• To increase students’
understanding as to the
range and scope of impact that poverty has on children’s lives.
• To develop empathy with children experiencing extreme poverty.
• To explore solutions and programs that can help alleviate poverty.
Examples

22. How to do global
It’s possible in Mathematics
Students can also experience the world in mathematics, a
class that is not intuitively “global.”
• Use global data for problem solving, or art and
architectural designs from various
cultures in the study of geometry.
• Students can learn about the
worldwide origins of mathematics
• The contributions of many cultures to
the development of the field as we
know it today.
Checklists

23. Why? The Conclusion
• The world we are preparing students for is qualitatively
different from the industrial world in which our public school
systems were created.
• Over the last decades numerous reports and policy
statements have emphasized the need for new skills for the
21st century.
• This framework for global competence responds to the
demands of a changing world differently, recognizing the
central role that global interdependence will play in the lives
of our youth.