Exploring Globally Significant Issues

A Course in the Teaching for Global Competence Series

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In this course, educators will learn how to identify globally significant issues and connect them to their specific context and activity area or discipline. By exploring the continuum that takes students from global awareness to global understanding, and ultimately, to global competence. Educators will gain the skills necessary to identify and leverage engaging and credible resources that best fit the needs of their students.

The coaching guide helps instructional leaders support educators as they prepare to implement concepts from the course in their own learning environments.

This course is part of the Teaching for Global Competence program. The cost for an individual course enrollment is $29 USD. Discounts are available to schools, districts, and programs if you are purchasing courses in bulk (all courses for a minimum of 25 educators). Please contact Kate Kemeklis for more information on bulk enrollments.

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Designed With the Following Audiences in Mind

Everyone is eligible to enroll in this course. This course is especially suited for the following audiences.

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Classroom Teacher: Delivers educational content in an academic institution.
 

Teaching for Global Competence Audience Icon: Out-of-School Time Educator

 
Out-of-School Time Educator: Delivers educational content in afterschool and summer programs.

Courses in the Teaching for Global Competence Series

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Introduction to Global Competence

Learn about the global competence movement in education and how it connects to learning in classrooms and in out-of-school time in this free introduction course.
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The Four Domains of Global Competence

What are the four components of global competence, and how can they act as a guide for structuring curriculum, instruction, and assessment? Come learn how this Framework can guide student learning both within and across disciplines.
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Getting Started with Globally Focused Project-Based Learning

Learn a proven method to develop global competence through project-based learning. Learn how to engage students in projects that are inquiry-based, student led, problem focused, authentic, and rooted in real-world global issues.
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Teaching Competencies in a Global Context

Learn how a global competence perspective brings context, relevance, and usefulness to your classroom or program. By the end of this course, you will learn how to empower students to apply academic knowledge to real-world problems and challenges.
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Global Competence Instructional Strategies

Learn instructional strategies aligned to the four domains of global competence—and applicable across all disciplines— that will help students develop the skills they need in today's global and digital world.
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Exploring Globally Significant Issues

Move your students further up the continuum from global awareness to global understanding by learning how to identify globally significant issues and connect them to your subject matter and local context.
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Designing Performance Assessments for Global Competence

Learn how to design your own curriculum storyboards based on performance assessments using the Center for Global Education's premiere curriculum tools.
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Utilizing Assessment to Inform Instruction

Learn how to develop, plan, and implement effective, globally focused assessments that integrate relevant instructional strategies, formative assessments, and an open student-teacher feedback loop.
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STEAM and the Global Connection

Learn how global issues can be integrated throughout STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) education to help guide student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking in tackling complex global problems.
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Leadership in Global Competence Education

In this course, designed for school leaders, learn about the Global School Design. This thinking model can be used for school-wide strategic planning and community-wide innovations to bolster global competence education.

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Teaching for Global Competence

Learn about online global competence courses offered by the Center for Global Education in collaboration with Arizona State University designed for educators in schools and in out-of-school time.