On Becoming a Global Teacher PDF

ON BECOMING Global Teacher - PURITA P.BILBAO, Ed.D.  Conrado de Quiros Being world-class does not mean going internationally and showing our best out there. Being world class is a passion and commitment to our profession, being world-class starts right inside the cl...

ON BECOMING Global Teacher - PURITA P.BILBAO, Ed.D.  Conrado de Quiros Being world-class does not mean going internationally and showing our best out there. Being world class is a passion and commitment to our profession, being world-class starts right inside the classroom.  Introduction The world is a "global village" with satellite communications enabling communication across thousands of offices. Global education aims to increase knowledge about people, resolve global problems, fluency in foreign languages, and develop tolerant attitudes towards other cultures. As national borders open, global education enables borderless education and offers new curricular dimensions and possibilities. Contemporary curricula respond to this concept, with increased technology use, changing societal realities, and ease of mobility posing challenges for future teachers. To become a global teacher, one must possess knowledge of various educational systems, master skills, and multicultural attitudes. As future teachers, think globally, but act locally! You can be a global teacher by being the best teacher in your school.  Learning Outcomes AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO; 4.Identify opportunities in 1.Describe a Global Teacher in teacher exchange programs for the context of Global Education. the development of world-class 3.Describe multicultural teachers. 2.Analyze and compare the education of selected countries diversity as an element of 5.Describe global application of of the world. global education and the technology in the classroom role of the teachers in addressing diversity among learners. Global Education and the Global Teacher “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. “ -LEONARDO DA VINCI Lesson I will introduce the general concept of global education and define the global teacher. This introductory lesson will give you a clear perspective of how you would become that global teacher. After understanding the two concepts you will be able to prepare yourself for the succeeding lessons. How do you prepare yourselves as teachers for a challenging task of making learners of today live meaningful lives tomorrow? As you prepare children for their future , teachers need to explore what the future holds. Teachers have to envision creative , innovative ways to prepare diverse learners in their own cultural context without forgetting that they live in a global village. To compete globally would mean to prepare teachers who are capable of changing lifelong education needs.How do you prepare for these needs? What are the emerging technologies that will shape the future? How can we use our technologies for best learning advantage? What will be the jobs of the future and how should curricula be shaped to prepare students for their future? You will be teaching in the "Flat World 'or "One Planet School house". These two terms imply global education as a result of the shrinking world due to access in technology. The internet globalizes communication by allowing users from around the world to connect to one another. Global Education Global education has been best described by two definitions: of educational defines global education as a goal to become aware of educational conditions or lack of it, in developing countries worldwide and aim to educate all peoples to a certain world standards. Another definition is that global education is a curriculum that is international in scope which prepares today's youth around the world to function in one world environment under teachers who are intellectually professionally and humanistically prepared. The United Nations entered into an agreement to pursue six (6)goals to achieve some standards of education in place by 2015 worldwide. To achieve global education the UN sets the following goals: 1. expand early childhood care education; 2. provide free and compulsory primary education for all; 3. promote learning and life skills for young and adult; 4. increase adult literacy by 50% ; 5. achieve gender parity by 2005 , gender equality by 2015; and 6. improve quality of education. In 2000 , the Philippines committed itself to the above EFA 2015 Goals at the World Education Forum in Dakar. James Becker (1982)defined global education as an effort to help individual learners to see the world as a single and global system and to see themselves as a participant in that system. It is a school curriculum that has a worldwide standard of teaching and learning. This curriculum prepares learners in an international marketplace with a world view of international understanding In his article "Goals of Global Education "Becker emphasized that global education incorporates into the curriculum and educational experiences of each student a knowledge and empathy of cultures of the nation and the world Likewise students are encouraged to see the world as a whole learn various cultures to make them better relate and function effectively within various cultural groups. Thus, to meet the various global challenges of the future, the 21st Century Learning Goals have been established as bases of various curricula worldwide. These learning goals include; 21st century content emerging content areas such as global awareness ; financial, economic,business and entrepreneurial literacy ; civic literacy, health and awareness. Learning and thinking skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication and creativity and innovation, collaboration, contextual learning, information and media literacy. ICT literacy : using technology in the context of learning so students know how to learn. Life skills leadership, ethics,accountability - personal,responsibility, self- direction and others.. 21st assessments, authentic assessments that meaasures the areas of learing. Global education is all about diversity understanding the differences and teaching the different cultural order the achieve the goals of global education as presented by the United Nations. It is educating all peoples in the world from the rented and rugged rural villages in developing countries to the slum ate of urbanized countries to the highly influential and economically stable societies of the world. Global education addresses the need of the smallest schools to the largest classrooms in the world. It responds to borderless education that defies distance and geographical location. Thus, global education provides equal opportunity and access to knowledge and learning tools which are the basic rights of every child in the global community. Are our pre-service teachers prepared to provide global education in their respective future school assignments ? Are you preparing yourselves to become a global teacher? Global Teacher Looking back at the concept of global education how do we define now a global teacher? Is this teacher somebody who teaches abroad? Is this person teaching anywhere in the world and is able to teach the 21st century learning goals? These are some of the fundamental questions which should be answered in order to understand, who a GLOBAL TEACHER is. A global teacher is a competent teacher who is armed with enough skills , appropriate attitude and universal values to teach students with both time tested as well as modern technologies in education in any place in the world He or she is someone who thinks and acts both locally and globally with wide perspectives ,right in the communities where he or she is situated. More specifically ,a global Filipino teacher should have the following qualities and characteristics in addition to knowledge, skills, and values: understands how this world is interconnected; recognized that the world has of ways of life; has a vision of the future and sees what the future would be for himself/herself and the students; must be creative and innovative; must understand , respect , and be tolerant of the diversity of cultures; must believe and take action for education that will sustain the future; must be able to facilitate digitally-mediated learning; must have depth of knowledge ; and must possess good communication skills (for Filipino teachers to be multilingual) and lastly but more importantly, must possess the competencies of a professional teacher as embodied in the National Competency-Based Standards for Teachers (NCBTS). The need for global teachers is on the rise in several countries worldwide. Even developed countries are in dire need of competent teachers who will man the countries rural and urban classrooms This is true with our neighboring countries like Singapore. Cambodia and Thailand. The regional data of the United Nations show the number of teaching posts needed by 2015. The table below shows the teaching posts needed by 2015, which you may avail of, if you are qualified. The data themselves show that indeed qualified global teacher will be in demand by 2015. Can you prospective teacher this gap? Summary Global education is a concept that brings us to understand the connectivity of each member citizen in the planet. The advancement of technology shrank the world to a size that everyone can be reached. Because of this development we have to learn the diversity or differences in cultures in order to address the global standards for education set by the United Nations. Global education requires future teachers the skills for the 21st century so that all will be ready to play a significant role to provide educational access to all types of learners all over the world. This teacher is a global teacher and were are millions on teachers needed now and in the future. PICTURE PICTURE PICTURE thank you!!!