The Classroom as a Global Community
This document discusses how to create a global classroom community. It defines globalization as the interconnectedness between people, ideas, economies, environments, communications, politics, and societies across the world. An education with a global perspective develops knowledge, skills, and attitudes to live effectively in a diverse and interdependent world with limited resources. It emphasizes understanding different cultures and seeing how local issues connect to global ones. Creating a global classroom involves using technology and international materials, integrating perspectives from other cultures, and assessing students in varied ways like problem-solving real world issues. Teachers must incorporate a global view throughout the curriculum, not just social studies, to prepare students for interacting in a global society.
The Classroom as a Global Community
- 1. THE CLASSROOM AS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
- 2. Introduction In an inter-related society like ours, the responsibility to prepare the learners to live productively within this natural environment falls on the teachers and the schools.
- 3. What is globalization? Interconnectedness among people and ideas from the entire and total system. ◦ economic ◦ Environment ◦ Communication ◦ Political ◦ social
- 4. Education for a global perspective Developing of knowledge, skills and attitudes to live effectively in a word possessing limited natural resources and characterized by ethnic diversity, cultural pluralism and increasing interdependence.
- 5. Emphasizes human experience influenced by trans nation and cross cultural interaction Emphasizes the wide variety of actors on the word stage Emphasizes fate of humankind cannot be separated from the state of the global environment. Emphasizes citizen participation at both local and international
- 6. Demands of a global society A healthy, well functioning global society demands that individuals have the ability to think, perceive, communicate and behave in a new and different ways with people from many different backgrounds. The preparation of individuals for these kinds of interaction is the goal of global or international education.
- 7. Henvey’s Five element of a global perspective Perspective consciousness State of the planet awareness Cross cultural awareness Knowledge of global dynamics of word systems Awareness of human choice
- 8. Characteristics of a global classroom Creative use of technology Broad use of maps, local an national newspapers, taped televisions programs, united nations materials Teaching roles for members of the local, international community and integration of content from inter nation organizations and associations.
- 9. Integration of content from inter national (trends, data bases) Use of alternative assessment ◦ Computer generated test and games ◦ Puzzles, solving real word problems ◦ Writing, poems, posters and flyers
- 10. Requirements of teaching a global oriented curriculum Global perspective is integrated throughout the school curriculum not just in social studies. Integration focus courses are developed in areas such as anthropology, regional history, geography and global or word.
- 11. Internationalizing instructional methods and materials emphasize intercultural interaction and culturally appropriate methods of instruction and assessment.
- 12. Internationalizing the disciplines Reading and language arts can include word literature, Science education might include the study of the natural environment and problems created by technology and economic innovation.
- 13. Foreign language education can include languages of immigrant and refugee populations, and the role of translators in diplomacy. Mathematics education can include the study of metric system and traditional numeration system from other cultures, and math concepts can be taught using word data and global issues.
- 14. Think of this… How can you now make your classroom as a global community? Can you make difference in teaching and learning locally and globally addressing the needs of the nation? - Girlyn Cielo- Bsed Mathematics