Competencies of a Global Teachers

Competencies of a Global Teacher

Our world has been called a “global village” – the idea
that people are connected by easy travel, mass media and
electronic communications and have become a single
community. Global education poses a variety of goals ranging
from increased knowledge about the people of the world to
resolutions of global problems, from increased fluency in
foreign languages to the development of more tolerant
attitudes towards other cultures and peoples.
You will be
teaching in the These two terms imply Global
“Flat World” or Education as a result of the shrinking
“One Planet world due to access in technology.
Schoolhouse”.
The internet globalizes
communication by allowing users
from around the world to connect to
one another.
To compete Globally means to prepare
teachers who are capable of changing
lifelong education needs. 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 their local communities but
within a global Village.
Global Global Education has been best described by two
definitions:
Education
 UNESCO defines Global education as a goal to develop
countries worldwide and is aimed at educating all
people in accordance with world standards.
 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.
Six Goals :
Expand early childhood care education
Provide free and compulsory primary education for all
Promote learning and life skills for young and adult
Increase adult literacy by 50 %
Achieve gender parity by 2005, gender equality by 2005
Improve quality of education
James Becker defined global education as an effort
(1988) 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
worldwide standard of teaching and
learning.
Thus, to meet the various global challenge 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 environmental 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 assessment: Authentic assessments that measure the
areas of learning.
 A global teacher is a competent teacher
Global who is earned with enough skills,
Teacher 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 worldwide
perspectives, right in the communities
where he or she is situated.
  Understands 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.
Qualities and  Must be creative and innovative
characteristics  Must understand, respect and tolerate of the diversity of cultures
 Must believe and take action for education that will sustain for the
future
 Must be able to facilitate digitally-mediated learning
 Must have depth of knowledge
 Must possess good communication skills
 Must possess the competencies of a professional teachers embodied
in the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST, 2017)
 Being a global teacher must not mean going
out of the country and teach there. A global
teacher thinks globally and acts locally.

 A teacher with desirable character should

have a class:
1. Commitment
2. Love of learners
3. Accountability for high standards
4. Sociability
5. Sincerity
To become a global teacher you
should equipped with a wider range
of knowledge of the various
educational systems outside the
country; master skills and
competencies which can address
global demands; and possess
attitudes and values that are
acceptable to multicultural
communities.
As future
teachers, you
have to blend
both global and
local perspective.
As the saying
goes: “ Think
globally but act
locally” or “think
local but act
global”
 All the new qualities of both the learners
Pillars of and teachers are addressed in the
UNESCO’s Pillars of learning based on
Learning Jacques Delor’s: Learning the Treasure
from within.
UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable
Development Initiative (2012) presented
a conceptual framework for ongoing,
lifelong learning. This model organizes
learning into the following five pillars
 LEARNING TO KNOW: (Knowledge, Skill, Values)
UNESCO’s  This implies thirst for knowledge and acquisition of
such knowledge. It is learning how to learn throughout
Five Pillar of one’s life. The development of skills and knowledge
Learning: needed to function in this world e.g. formal acquisition
of literacy, numeracy, critical thinking and general
knowledge.

LEARNING TO DO: Application of what one knows

 Learning by doing is a pragmatist’s view of life.
Knowledge acquired is nothing unless applied in daily
life. The acquisition of applied skills linked to
professional success.
 LEARNING TO BE: Self-identity and understanding, Confidence
and self worth.
 Defined as the discovery of oneself as an individual (self-esteem, self-
determination, critical thinking) and as a member of society. It implies
UNESCO’s developing the potentials of each individual. Continuing education must
improve self-knowledge and self-esteem.
Five Pillar of  The learning that contributes to a person’s mind, body and spirit. Skills
include creativity and personal discovery, acquired through reading, the
Learning: internet and activities such as sports and arts.

LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER: Respect of culture and

diversity, inclusivity
 This refers to the relationships among people. It is bringing in together a
community to work harmoniously, to live in peace and prosperity and to
show respect and concern for others. It also refers to interpersonal skills
that will enable people to live side by side with others at home, in school,
in the community and the whole world.
 The development of social skills and values such as respect and concern
for others, and the appreciation of cultural diversity
 LEARNING TO TRANSFORM ONESELF AND
UNESCO’s SOCIETY:
Five Pillar of
Learning:
When individuals and groups gain
knowledge, develop skills, and acquire new
values as a result of learning, they are equipped
with tools and mindsets for creating lasting
change in organizations, communities, and
societies.