Schools for Global Citizens

1. Schools for Global Citizens Paul Miller Director of Global initiatives NAIS miller@nais.org

2. What are the Skills and Values Needed for the 21st century?

3. Bassett’s Skills and Values: based on Tony Wagner, Howard Gardner, two Blue ribbon panels and the GRE’s recommendation standards • Character (self-discipline, empathy, integrity, resilience and courage) • Creativity and entrepreneurial spirit • Real world problem solving (filtering, analysis and synthesis)

4. Bassett’s Skills and Values • Public speaking/communications • Teaming • Leadership

5. Measuring Success • Outcomes-based approach: if we can agree on what well-educated students should be able to do, we can design the means to those ends. • Bassett: “What we believe is that demonstrations of learning marry skills with content, develop multiple intelligences, connect thought with action and exemplify 21st century skills and values.

6. What demonstrations of learning?

7. NAIS draft • Conduct a fluent conversation in a language other than your own about a piece of writing in that language • Write a cogent and persuasive opinion piece on a matter of public importance • declaim with passion and from memory a passage that is meaningful – of one’s own, or from the culture’s literature or history • Produce or perform a work of art • Construct and program a robot capable of performing a difficult physical task

8. NAIS Draft • Exercise Leadership • Using statistics, assess whether a statement by a public figure is demonstrably true. • Assess media coverage of a global event from various cultural/national perspectives • Describe a breakthrough for a team on which you served and to which you contributed to overcoming a human created obstacle so that the team could succeed. • Demonstrate a commitment to creating a more sustainable future with means that are scalable.

9. Does backwards-design take us to a global approach? • "Because it provides so many different entryways into complex, integrative, developmentally appropriate learning, global learning serves well as an overarching frame and rationale for liberal education itself"  --AAC&U • Global education also develops the sense of the other, which Martin Skelton of Fieldwork education calls “the most important disposition we need to model and develop if we are to create great learning”.

10. Global’s One-World Approach • Moral reasons • Practical reasons • Evangelical component • Criticism

11. Dr. Merry Merryfield, Ohio State University Global Classroom Strategies: • Teach against stereotypes, the “exotic” and simplification of other cultures • Develop perspective consciousness: foster the examining of multiple perspectives and primary sources • Analyze how heritage, power, and status shape people’s knowledge, use of language and worldview.. • Provide cross-cultural experiential learning

12. The Global Classroom is • Part of a Global School • Guided by a Global Teacher • Achievement: producing Global Citizens

13. Global Schools • Present a view of the world that invites and rewards curiosity concerning the richness and diversity of all human societies, and encourages respect for all people. • Develop curriculum which helps students recognize how differing cultures, traditions, histories and religions may underlie views and values

14. Provide resources and activities in support of instruction which can help carry learning in the direction of world understanding. Expect teachers, administrators and other staff members to model respect for all peoples and cultures and to address constructively instances of bias or disdain for nationalities, cultures or religions outside of their own. GlobalSchools

15. Global Schools • Seek beyond the institution itself partnerships and networking which may help it promote global awareness, experience, and problem-solving for its students. • Educate and encourage parents to support school initiatives which promote global understanding. • Seek a diversity of cultural, national and ethnic backgrounds in the recruitment of teachers and administrators. 

16. How Global is YOUR school? •  mission statement- are there global elements in it? •  policies procedures and operations- global at all? • Global teachers? (what does that mean?)

17. Global Teachers: “How We Teach is at least as important as What We Teach” Educating for Global Citizenship by Boyd Roberts

18. Global Teachers: Educating for Global Citizenship Roberts: Pedagogy of Global education: • Learner Centered • Participatory • Partnership-based • Experience based • Addresses reflections, emotions and activity

19. Global teachers • Implications- shared control between teacher and students. Less emphasis on “right” answers. More open-ended discussion. More unpredictable • Working with students to handle even controversial issues is essential. Listening to the views of others, responding without becoming personal, analyzing issues crtically are vital- and acquired- skills. • Is Roberts right?

20. Global Citizenship • “Educating for Global Citizenship…shifts attention from the activity and process to the purpose, outcome and result…global citizens” • What is a global citizen?

21. How to implement a Global School If you could design a plan, what would it contain and how would you implement it?

22. How to implement a Global School • Not one program at a time! Comprehensive approach  • Possible scenarios: Top down or grass rootsTop Down: • Total commitment of board and head • Financial commitment • Ground up: • Global advisory committee takes plan to faculty, which approves, then to senior administration and finally to the board.

23. Implementation • Global must infuse the whole school culture. Deep Globalization (Marc Frankel) “that transforms how and what students learn”. • Get key people (Develop set of allies) and ultimately the whole community on board • Committee approach: members of board, administration, faculty, parents, maybe students, consultants – no one group in the majority

24. Implementation • Examine overarching goals and how the school will interact with the wider world. • Don’t just throw money around • Win over the faculty –variety of strategies (e.g. Deerfield) • Win over the parents • Win over the students

25. Institutionalization • Structure: who supervises implementation ands the rank they are given • Hiring: young faculty do the “heavy lifting” in global ed- make sure the right ones are hired • Professional Development • Networks of support outside the school • Proper measurement of outcomes • Give it Time!

26. What does global education look like? What are the components?

27. Curriculum changes • Add a curriculum component eg a “Global Affairs’ course • Change an existing curriculum component eg Peace and Conflict Studies as part of the IB; IB extended essay in world studies. • Introduce a new Curriculum – eg Global diploma or more radical Met Learning center magnet school approach- systems, not disciplines. • Permeate or infuse existing subjects • include global issues • draw examples from diverse cultures etc • stress interconnections

28. Global elements • Languages • History • Social Studies • Science • Math • Arts

29. Think about lessons you will teach next week. • Identify two where you could address global elements more directly- how will you do it? (more student participation, discussion of a global issue, ethical issues, opportunity for students to take action?)

30. Outside the Classroom • Glocal  • Trips Abroad • Partnerships • Global Citizen Action

31. Trips Abroad • What are your criteria?

32. Trips Abroad • Why? Benefit, learning outcomes, necessity   • Who? • How? Is the host community involved in service learning? How will it benefit? How can the trip be planned so all are equally involved • What learning outcomes? What follow-up? What assessment? • How has travel impacted your world view? What trips have had the most impact and why?

33. Assessment • Conclusions

34. Bibliography  • “Globalizing a School” by Paul Miller, chapter in Change Management, manuscript for NAIS. • “Demonstrations of Learning for 21st Century Schools” by Pat Bassett, Independent School Magazine, Fall 2009 • Educating For Global Citizenship, Boyd Roberts, International Baccalaureate Press, London, 2009

35. Appendix

36. Global Citizenship “Global Citizenship is not what you DO with your time. Rather, Global Citizenship is how a person is equipped to execute whatever they decide to do. It is a set of Knowledge Skills and Attitudes that equip someone to be effective in their chosen pursuits” --Skip Kotkins NAIS & Lakeside Board Member

37. Global CompetencyFernando Reimers, Harvard University Graduate School of Education Knowledge of the World Skills to put the Knowledge to use Attitudinal and Ethical Dispositions

38. Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Respectful Ethical Curious and open-minded Self-aware Action-oriented Optimistic Self-confident yet humble

39. Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Geography and history Culture Development Sustainability Finance/global economics US role in the world

40. Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Critical thinking and problem-solving “at the heart of good teaching, whatever the label” --Boyd Roberts Flexibility and resilience Creativity Communication Teamwork Intelligent risk-taking Observation and reflection

41. Kennesaw State’s “Get Global” Program Learning Outcomes in the Core Curriculum: Knowledgeable global perspectives Effective intercultural engagement skills Global Citizenship attitudes