Read, Learn, Watch, and Apply in order to Travel along new avenues that will better prepare JSEC students for the demands of a global economy.
First, let's change our definition of student success to include being "Globally Competent". While we address 21st Century skills and help our students to think like historians, scientists, mathematicians, writers, advocates, and artists, we also need to insure they are globally competent, which includes:
Investigating the world while relating their local lives to everyone else's global existence,
Recognizing different perspectives,
Researching via national and international sources
Collaborating,
Completing project-based activities with their international peers,
Communicating ideas - in more than one language,
Conducting Interdisciplinary Lessons,
Being digitally literate, and
Taking action.
Two books, located in the Teacher's Resource Center in the JSEC library, will help you further understand the rationale to integrate global competency skills into our curriculum:
The Global Achievement Gap, by Tony Wagner
Learning in the Global Era, edited by Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco.
Here are some more great reads to to get you on your way in understanding the basics of global competency:
US Global Competence
Asia Society
NEA/Global Competence
Investigating the world while relating their local lives to everyone else's global existence,
Recognizing different perspectives,
Researching via national and international sources
Collaborating,
Completing project-based activities with their international peers,
Communicating ideas - in more than one language,
Conducting Interdisciplinary Lessons,
Being digitally literate, and
Taking action.
Two books, located in the Teacher's Resource Center in the JSEC library, will help you further understand the rationale to integrate global competency skills into our curriculum:
The Global Achievement Gap, by Tony Wagner
Learning in the Global Era, edited by Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco.
Here are some more great reads to to get you on your way in understanding the basics of global competency:
US Global Competence
Asia Society
NEA/Global Competence