INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

ONLINE COURSE 3

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Congratulations to all of you who have enrolled in this course-
Teaching Profession. Isn’t wonderful to see yourself an important part
of the learning environment that involves valuable choices reflecting
the fulfillment of desired learning outcome? Come on! Join us in our
journey to learning. Engage yourself as you enjoy the benefits of
learning.

Our world has been called a "global village. Satellite communications make possible television,
telephone and documents conveyed through fax and electronic mails across thousands of miles in
thousandths of a second. Our students can view global warfare in the Middle East, famine in Africa,
industrial pollution in Europe or industrial breakthrough in Korea or Japan through a worldwide web
of the information highways.

Global education poses variety of goals ranging from increased knowledge about the peoples 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. Global education
embraces today's challenges as national borders are opened. It paves the way for borderless education
to respond to the needs of educating children of the world they are entering. It offers new curricular
dimensions and opportunities, current scientific and technological breakthroughs for completely new
frontiers in education.

Contemporary curricula responded to the concept of this global village. The increased use of
technology in the classroom, the combination of the changing realities of our world's society, and the
ease of mobility of peoples of the world become a challenge to your preparation as prospective
teachers.

Hence, future teachers like you should prepare to respond to these multiple challenges. To become a
global teacher you should be equipped with a wider range of knowledge of the various educational
systems separate the country; master skills and competencies which can address global demands; and
possess attitudes and values that are acceptable to multicultural communities. When you are able to
satisfy these benchmark requirements, then you can safely say, you have prepared well to be a great
teacher of the world.

As a future teacher, think globally, but act locally! You can be a global teacher by being the best
teacher in your school.