UNESCO Defines Global Education As A Goal To Become Aware of Educational Conditions

GLOBAL EDUCATION AND GLOBAL TEACHER
GLOBAL EDUCATION
-Global education has been describe by two definition:
UNESCO defines global education as a goal to become aware of educational conditions

or lack of it, in developing countries worldwide and aim to all peoples to a certain
world standards.
Another definition is that the global education is a curriculum that is international in

scope which prepares todays youth around the world to function in one world
environment under teachers who are intellectually, professionally and humanistically
prepared.
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 the 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.
The 21st Century Learning Goals have been established as bases of various curricula
worldwide. This 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, 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, others.
- 21st century assessments: Authentic assessments that measure the areas of
learning.
Global education is all about diversity, understanding the differences and

teaching the different cultural groups in order to achieve the goals of global education
as presented by the United Nations.
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.
GLOBAL TEACHER
-A global teacher is a competent teacher who is armed with enough skills,

appropriate attitude and universal values to teach students 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 worldwide 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:
- Understand how this world is interconnected;
- Recognizes that the world has rich variety of ways of life;
- Has a vision of the future 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 multi-
lingual).
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 in 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 classroom. This is true with our neighboring countries like Singapore,
Cambodia and Thailand.

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GLOBAL EDUCATION AND GLOBAL TEACHER

UNESCO defines global education as a goal to become aware of educational conditions

Another definition is that the global education is a curriculum that is international in

6 Goals to Achieve some standards of education in place by 2015 worldwide. To

1. Expand early childhood care education;

- 21st century content: emerging content areas such as global awareness,

Global education is all about diversity, understanding the differences and

-A global teacher is a competent teacher who is armed with enough skills,

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