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=Global Competency =

**"Learn "with" the world...not just "about" the world."**

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=[|District Strategies to Prepare a Globally Competent Generation]=

What are the implications for professional development?
Today’s great challenges facing society span all fields—but they share one characteristic: they are global in scope and require a collaborative response from groups or nations. In order to educate the generation of students who will face the challenges of the 21st century, schools need to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to work effectively in our increasingly interdependent world.


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 * [[image:global_citizen_1.png link="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/gc/"]] || **Global Competencies at the top of the list** :


 * 1) ability to communicate effectively across linguistic and cultural boundaries
 * 2) ability to see and understand the world from a perspective other then one's own
 * 3) ability to understand and appreciate the diversity of societies and cultures.


 * Essential dimensions of global competence: **
 * 1) **Investigate the World**
 * 2) **Recognize Perspectives**
 * 3) **Communicate Ideas**
 * 4) **Take Action** ||

==[|Sec. Duncan's speech: US Secretary of Education on Global Learning, Languages]==

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[|Global Competence: The Knowledge and Skills Our Students Need]
The concept of global competence has emerged as a way of articulating the knowledge and capacities students need in the 21st century.

What are the elements of global competence?

Global competence also requires the ability to understand prevailing world conditions, issues and trends through discipline-based and interdisciplinary learning. A competitive advantage will go to those students in San Francisco or São Paulo who know what’s going on in the world and how the world works, from climate change to migration trends to human rights. Educating students for global competence requires substantive, developmentally appropriate engagement over time with the world’s complexities. Gaining this knowledge and understanding depends on acquiring and applying four key cognitive capacities – essential dimensions of global competence. Today’s globally competent student are able to:
 * Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Understanding.** Learning content matters, here and everywhere else. Global competence requires knowledge and understanding of seminal content and skills within academic disciplines and the capacity to use disciplinary methods of inquiry creatively and productively. They need to learn to think like historians or scientists or artists. How our “Common Core” standards compare to the curriculum in Brazil, China, Russia or Nigeria matters, too. It is with people from places like these that our students will collaborate and compete.
 * Investigate the World**
 * Recognize Perspectives**
 * Communicate Ideas**
 * Take Action**

[|International Education Planning Rubric: State Strategies to Prepare Globally Competent Students]
STATE STRATEGIES TO PREPARE GLOBALLY COMPETENT STUDENTS RUBRIC: [|Focusing On Leadership, Resources, Preparing and Certifying Globally Expert Teachers and Education Leaders, Professional Development for Globally Expert Teachers and Education Leaders and Curriculum and Instruction for the Global Age, Includes links to state examples.]

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