GLOBAL

TEACHERS
“To become a global teacher, you should be equipped with a wider
range of knowledge of the various educational systems outside the
country” – The Teaching Profession (Bilbao, ET AL, 2006)
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS TO
UNDERSTAND WHO IS A GLOBAL
TEACHER
 How do we define a global teacher?
 Isthis teacher somebody who teaches
abroad?
 Isthis person teaching anywhere in the
world, and is able to teach the 21st century
learning goal?
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.
 He/she is someone who thinks and acts both
locally and globally with world-wide perspectives,
right in the communities he/she is situated.
A global teacher should have the following
qualities and characteristics in addition to
knowledge skills and values:
understand how this world is inter-connected,
recognizes that the world has a variety of ways
of life,
has a vision of the future and sees what the
future would be for himself/herself and the
students,
must be creative and innovative,
 must understand, respect and 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,
 must possess good communication skills
 must
posses competencies of a professional teacher as
embodied in the NCBTS.
 Regions of the World Number of New Teaching positions
Needed by 2015 by the thousands

Arab States 243,000

Central and Eastern Europe 80,000

Central Asia 22,000

East Asia and the Pacific 104,000

Latin America and the Caribbean 10,000

North America and Western Europe 155,000

South and West Asia 292,000

Sub-Saharan Africa 1,115,000