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On Being A Global Teacher
On Being A Global Teacher
Estrada, EdD
Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Manila
Teacher Certificate Program; First Semester; AY 2019-2020
The United Nations entered into agreement to pursue six (6) goals to
achieve some standards of education in place by 2015 worldwide. To
achieve the global education goal, 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
6. Improve quality education.
To meet the various global challenges of the future, the 21 st Century
Learning Goals have been established as bases of various curricula
worldwide. The learning goals include:
1. 21st century content: emerging content areas such as global awareness,
financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, civic literacy,
health and awareness
2. Learning and Thinking skills: critical thinking, problem solving,
communication, creativity, innovation, collaboration, contextual
learning, information and media literacy
3. ICT literacy: using technology in the context of learning
4. Life skills: leadership, ethics, accountability, personal responsibility, self-
direction
5. 21st century assessments: authentic assessments that measure the
areas of learning
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5. Understands, respects and has tolerance for diversity of cultures
6. Believes and takes action for education that will sustain the future
7. Is able to facilitate digitally-mediated learning
8. Has depth of knowledge
9. Possesses good communication skills
10. Possesses competencies of a professional teacher as embodied in the NCBTS
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The use of technology in the classroom has never been
underscored than now. The roles of technology in achieving the
goal of learning for understanding can be enumerated as follows:
a. It provides support to the solution of meaning problems
b. It acts as cognitive support
c. It promotes collaboration as well as independent learning