Connecting Across Spaces
Post submitted by whole child blogger Caroline Newton, a sophomore at Temple University. Newton is studying journalism and writes for Jump: The Philly Music Project magazine.
"How can we prepare our learners for the future? How can our learners cultivate global competence?" Heidi Hayes Jacobs of Curriculum21 asked in her ASCD Annual Conference session. The topic of the hour? Connecting the classroom and the school to the global world.
To help students gain this global knowledge, Brandon Wiley of Asia Society introduced the Global Competency Matrix model, which highlights the following principles:
- Investigate the world. Students explore questions of global significance, relating local to global issues.
- Recognize perspective. Students seek to understand their own beliefs before understanding those of