QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY

DIFFUN CAMPUS
Diffun, 3401 Quirino

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

I. MODULE 2 – Learning Episode 7

Globalizing Teaching Profession

II. COMPETENCIES
At the end of the learning episode, the students should be able to:
1. explain the concept of globally competitive teacher;
2. synthesize the attributes of a global teacher;
3. compare and contrast the educational systems in some countries; and
4. evaluate the accurate procedure of professionalizing teaching.

III. DISCUSSION

Nowadays, it is challenging to compete in the teaching position. It is necessary

to acquire skills beyond compare to other applicants to be accommodated in the
government. As a future applicant in the teaching position, you should not focus only
with your limited skills, talents and capabilities learned in your teacher education
institution but focus also with the global skills, competencies and abilities.
Year in and year out, there are new teachers who graduate and pass the
Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (LET). Unfortunately, there are those
who are not accommodated and given the chance to avail permanent item or plantilla
in the government because of their limited skills and abilities. Given the increasing
interconnectedness of our world, new teachers are being called upon to meet and
support the growth of globally-minded students—but are they ready to do so? 
The Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) offering teacher education and
teaching profession must provide programs to help future teachers to cope with the
trends of globalization. The teachers should be acquainted to global competence,
engage directly to the trends of global teachers and expose to the nature of work of a
global teacher even in their preservice teaching experiences. Aside from preparing the
would-be teachers to pass their licensure examinations, they should be involved in the
different activities patterned to the other educational systems of the countries in the
world. They must be accustomed to the competencies of other teacher-training
institutions worldwide.

The Global Teacher

There are many challenges as a future teacher. You may encounter these along
with your teaching. The existence of global education in a global village probably offers
issues, problems and concerns. These are the probable results of global education.
As a would-be teacher, you need to possess global competence. This global
competence includes set of basic and essential knowledge, critical disposition and
performance that foster development of the learners. Indeed, a globally competent
teacher has a knowledge of the world, identify the local impact of the global issues and
know how to accept and adopt other educational systems of other countries.

According to Soppelsa, et.al. (2015) the global teacher began by gathering

exemplary examples of knowledge, skills, and dispositions that spell out global
competence in educators into ten (10) such as:
(1) Understanding one's own cultural identity and its influence on
personal dispositions and classroom practice;
(2) Knowing and integrating global dimensions within the disciplines one
teaches;

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(3) Engaging students in learning about the world and in exploring their place in
it;
(4) Using real-life global examples, materials, and resources when considering
local, national, and human issues;
(5) Valuing the input of culturally and linguistically diverse learners, families,
and
colleagues, and modeling cultural sensitivity;
(6) Creating environments that encourage positive cross-cultural interaction;
(7) Modeling social responsibility in local and global contexts ;
(8) Helping learners find appropriate actions to improve local and global
conditions;
(9) Assessing learners' global competence and providing growth opportunities
based on their levels of development; and
(10) Advocating for global education and social responsibility.

Given all these, a future teacher is expected to perform multi-faceted tasks. It is

also high time to deal with other teachers from other countries to deal with their own
educational system. It is necessary to identify the characteristics of a global teacher.

Characteristics of a Global Teacher

In order to cope with the trends and new perspectives of teaching, a teacher
must possess globalized skills and abilities. Here are the important characteristics of a
global teacher. These characteristics can help you become a global teacher in the
future. These characteristics can be utilized in teaching students with 21 st century
skills.

1. Possesses a wider range of knowledge of the various educational systems

outside the country;
2. Has a good mastery of skills and competencies which can address global
demands;
3. Possesses attitudes and values that are acceptable to multicultural
communities.

As Soppelsa, et.al. (2015) mentioned, “Teacher training institutions and the

teaching profession have been the focus of many recent conversations in education
circles, including numerous discussions around licensure and credentialing. This led
us to engage directly with educators and their teachers about what global competence
means for them and whether the process for credentialing new teachers is reflective of
the realities of today's classrooms.”
This means that we need to consider the abilities of the teacher to cope with the
trends of educational system. In the academe, the competencies of the teachers must
be enriched and developed. The student-teachers should be exposed to the real world
of teaching with global ideas and 21st century skills and abilities.

Global teachers (should) care about education as a whole, as well as their

school and their classroom.  A global teacher is someone who knows how to share and
care for others. He/she is ready to learn from others by appreciating cultural
differences. He has an open mind to understand others and the world as a whole.

Global Education has been best described by two definitions: (1) UNESCO
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 people to a certain world
standard; and (2) Is a curriculum that is international in scope which prepares today’s

VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

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DIFFUN CAMPUS
Diffun, 3401 Quirino

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

youth around the world to function in one world environment under teachers who are
intellectually, professionally and humanistically prepared.

Educational Systems in Some Countries

Basic Education Other Features

Countries College /
Primary Secondary
University

Australia 6 years 6 years 6 years o Compulsory education-- entry age at 6; exit

age at 15
(Canada) o Primary and secondary education is
provided by the government and non-
(England) Entry Junior
government primary schools.
age o Junior Secondary Certificate of Education
(4 yrs)
(Year 10 Certificate)
o Students may get a job after Junior High or
go to a Technical and Further Education
Senior high (TAFE) College to learn technical skills.
school o Academic year begins in March, ends in
November
(2 yrs) o Language of Instruction – English
6 years 6 years o Education system is highly centralized.
o Class size ranged from 40-60
o To attend university, students must pass
one of the 2 versions of the National
Junior
University Entrance Examination.
China middle (3yrs)
o There are varieties of technical and
vocational schools.

Senior
middle (3yrs)

6 years 6 years o Highly centralized education administered

by Mombusho or Ministry of Education.
o Preschools with mainly female teachers;
not official part of the educational system.
Lower
o 2/3 of student population go to the public-
secondary
school system
Japan (3yrs) o 2/3 male teachers in schools
o Higher education is provided by 80%
private institutions
Upper o Japanese education relies heavily on
Secondary examination.
(3yrs)

6 years 3 years 3-4 years o Students take a public examination for a

Senior Certificate

Junior
Primary
South
(3yrs)
Africa

Senior
Primary

(3yrs)

VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.

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DIFFUN CAMPUS
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COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Basic Education Other Features

Countries College /
Primary Secondary
University

6 years 5 years o Compulsory for ages

United 5-16
Kingdom o Made up of the Foundation stage and 4 Key
Stages, plus Post 16 education

United Primary Middle Junior Senior o Compulsory education is from entry of 6

States of High High yrs old to exit of 18 yrs old
3 yrs 5 yrs o Classes begin in September and end in
America 2 yrs 3 yrs June

IV. ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES

Direction: 1. Complete the table by filling in the columns with the needed details.

Countries Basic Education Policies Features

Canada

China

Japan

United Kingdom

United State of America

South Africa

Philippines

2. In your own words, what is a GLOBAL Teacher? What are the important
characteristics of a global teacher needed for development?
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VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

 QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY
DIFFUN CAMPUS
Diffun, 3401 Quirino

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

V. COMPREHENSION CHECK
Direction: Encircle the letter that corresponds to you answer.
1. Aside from academic capabilities, what other aspects do schools look for teacher
education graduates?
A. Skillful and talented teachers
B. Graduates with high regard to multicultural concerns
C. Law abiding and nation-spirited individuals
D. All of the above
2. A global teacher is someone who has sense of intercultural relations with other
people on the world and knows how to _______________
A. socialize with other people in the society
B. discriminate other because of their incapability
C. teach children to be dependent with other people
D. create his/her own world of work
3. The following are characteristics of a global teacher except one.
A. Informed of the educational systems outside the country
B. Masters competencies that address global demands
C. Possesses post graduate education qualifications
D. Has values acceptable to multicultural communities
4. Global education aims to educate people with ____________
A. highly technical knowledge and skills
B. righteous values and virtues
C. adaptive 21st century skills
D. certain world standard
5. In Australia, a student who completes junior high school can already _______
A. marry and live as a family man
B. get a job
C. go to another country
D. secure for a skill certificate

VI. ASSIGNMENT
Task 1. Look for a profile of a global teacher who has experiences worthy to be
emulated.
Write his/her biography in the form of a feature story. Be guided with the
following questions:

1. How did he/she acquire his/her education?

2. What were his/her achievements that keep him/her a global teacher?
3. What is his/her philosophy about teaching?
4. How does he/she model the attributes of a global teacher?

VII. REFERENCES

Akinboye, J.O. (2014). Psychological Foundations of Education. Ibadan. Heineman

Educational Books

VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

 QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY
DIFFUN CAMPUS
Diffun, 3401 Quirino

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Bilbao, P. P. B.B. Corpuz, A. T. Llagas, and G. G. Salandanan. (2016). The teaching

profession. Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.
Blackburn, Simon (2016). Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd ed.). p. 240. ISBN
978-0199541430
Buss, D.M. (2016). Evolutionary Psychology. Psycnet.apa.org.
Cox, Janelle ox (2013) What is the Role of A Teacher. Retrieved on
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-role-of-a-teacher-2081511
Lanier, Judith Taack. (2015). Redefining the Role of the Teacher: It's a Multifaceted
Profession. Edutopia. George Lucas Educational Foundation 1997. Web.
February 4, 2018.

Martin, M. (2019). The teaching profession in the millennial context. Quezon City:St.
Andrew Publishing House.
Moreland, J.P. and William Lane Craig (2013) Philosophical Foundation of Christian
World View. Downers Grove Illinois: Intervarsity Press.

VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

 QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY
DIFFUN CAMPUS
Diffun, 3401 Quirino

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

APPENDICES
A. Key answers for the comprehension check
1. D
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. B

B. Rubric in checking the self-paced learning module

Name of the Student:___________________________________ Date Submitted:_____________
Year and Section:_____________________________ Course:____________________
PARTS Exemplary Superior Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Learning All tasks were All or nearly all Nearly all tasks Fewer than half
Activities done with tasks were done were done with of the tasks
outstanding with high quality acceptable were done; or
quality; work quality most objectives
exceeds were met but
expectations need
improvement
5 4 3 2
Assignment All tasks were All tasks were Tasks were not Tasks were not
accomplished accomplished accomplished accomplished;
completely; in completely; clear completely; grammar and
depth answers; connection with vaguely related spelling are
thoroughly theories, to the theories; unsatisfactory
grounded on grammar and grammar and
theories, with spelling are spelling are
exemplary superior acceptable
grammar and
spelling
5 4 3 2
Assessment All questions There is one Two mistakes Three mistakes
were answered mistake were committed were committed
with perfect committed
score
5 4 3 2
Submission of Submitted before Submitted on the Submitted a Submitted two
learning the deadline deadline day after the days or more
episodes deadline after the
deadline
5 4 3 2
COMMENTS Overall score Rating
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TRANSMUTATION OF SCORE TO GRADE/RATING

Score 20 19-18 17 16 15 14 13-12 11 10 9-8 7 below
Rating 1.0 1.25 1.5 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 2.75 3.00 3.5 5.00
99 96 93 90 87 84 81 78 75 72 71-

VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

 QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY
DIFFUN CAMPUS
Diffun, 3401 Quirino

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

below

_____________________________________________ _____________
SIGNATURE OF INSTRUCTOR ABOVE PRINTED NAME DATE

C. Rubric in checking their feature story

Name of the Student:___________________________________ Date Submitted:_____________
Year and Section:_____________________________ Course:____________________
Categories Criteria Score
2 3 4 5
Correct use of Correct use of Correct use of Correct use of
punctuation punctuation punctuation punctuation
marks, marks, marks, marks,
indention, indention, indention, indention,
Mechanics
margin, and margin, and margin, and margin, and
the likes is the likes is not the likes is the likes is
totally observed well remarkable highly
neglected remarkable
The entire Major parts of There are The entire
output is with the output is some missing output is with
a mess missing details in the sufficient
Content
content content content

Ideas are Majority of the Some ideas Ideas are

cluttered and ideas are not are not logically
Organization disarranged properly properly presented
presented in arranged
order
Sentences and Majority of the Some Sentences and
paragraphs sentences and sentences and paragraphs are
are not paragraphs paragraphs interconnected
Coherence
connected and are are not well
related with interconnected interconnected
each other
Sentences are Majority of the Some Sentences are
long and going sentences are sentences are short, simple
around the long, complex long, complex and easy to
Conciseness
bush and difficult to and difficult to understand
understand understand

Total

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SIGNATURE OF INSTRUCTOR ABOVE PRINTED NAME DATE

VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”