Global Education and the Global Teacher

SUMMARY

Global education is a concept that brings as to understand the connectivity of each member citizen in the planet. The advancement of technology shrank the world to a size that everyone can be reached. Because of this development, we have to learn the diversity or differences in cultures in order to address the global standards for education set by the United Nations, Global education requires future teachers the skills for the 21st century so that all will be ready to play a significant role to provide educational access to all types of learners all over the world. This teacher is a global teacher, and there are millions of global teachers needed now and in the future.

A global teacher is a competent teacher who is armed with enough skills, 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.

Global Teacher

Looking back at the concept of global education,

HOW DO WE DEFINE NOW A GLOBAL TEACHER? IS THIS TEACHER SOMEBODY WHO TEACHES ABROAD? IS THIS A PERSON TEACHING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, AND ABLE TO TEACH THE 21st CENTURY LEARNING GOALS?

Global Education and the Global Teacher

Global education is all about diversity, understanding the differences and teaching the different cultural groups in order to achieve the goals of global education as presented by the United Nations.

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

- Learning and thinking skills

- ICT literacy

- Life skills

- 21st Century assessments

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 equality by 2015; and

6.Improve quality of education

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 and aim 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.

HOW DO YOU PREPARE YOURSELVES AS TEACHERS FOR A CHALLENGING TASK OF MAKING LEARNERS OF TODAY LIVE MEANINGFUL LIVES TOMORROW?

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