Competencies of Global Teacher

Global Education

Global education has been best described by two definitions:

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 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 sis (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 quality by 2015;
6. improve quality of education

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 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.

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,
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.