GLOBAL EDUCATION

AND THE GLOBAL

TEACHER
GLOBAL EDUCATION
education that opens people’s eyes and minds to the
realities of the globalized world and awakens them to
bring about a world of greater justice, equity
and human rights for all. Global education is
understood to encompass development
education, human rights education, education for
sustainable development, education for
peace and conflict prevention and intercultural
education; being the global dimension of education
for citizenship.
— Maastricht Global Education Declaration (2002)
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.
Global education is 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.
“education which promotes the knowledge,
attitudes, and skills relevant to living responsibility
in a multicultural, interdependent world.”
-Fisher & Hicks
 understanding critical reflection

GLOBAL
EDUCATION
awareness raising informed action

Sustainable change in
the society
 Global education addresses topics such as:
-global justice
-human rights
-sustainability
-peace
-intercultural communication
 Global Education develop skills such as:
-critical and creative thinking
-problem solving
-conflict resolution
-communication skills

 Hence, develops skills and attitudes which

enable people take responsibility for their own
lives and the world we live in and become active
global citizens.
THE GLOBAL TEACHER
A global teacher is a competent teacher who is
earned 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. He or she is someone who
thinks and acts both locally and globally with
worldwide perspectives, right in the communities
where he or she is situated.
QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

 Understands how this world is interconnected;

 Recognizes that the world has rich variety of ways
of life;
 Has a vision of the future sees what the future
would be for himself/herself and the students;
 Must be creative and innovative;
 Must understand, respect and be tolerant of the
diversity of cultures;
 Must believe and take action for education
that will sustain the future;
 Must be able to facilitate digitally-mediated
learning;
 Must have depth of knowledge; and must
possess good communication skills (for Filipino
teachers to be multi-lingual).
 And lastly but more importantly, must possess
the competencies of a professional teachers
embodied in the National Competency-Based
Standards for Teachers (NCBTS).
“Being world class does not mean going
internationally and showing our best out there.
Being world class is passion and commitment to
our profession: being world class is giving our best
to teaching. Being world-class starts right inside
the classroom.”
---Conrado de Quiroz