Assessing the Global Competency Skill Sets
There are a variety of resources to use to access students' global competencies.
Global Competence Matrix
This matrix includes a solid list of questions to ask in order to assess how your school is doing in the area of teaching global competencies:
Global Education Checklist
This checklist is designed to evaluate a student's level of global competency. It addresses a students knowledge and skills in relation to Global Issues, Culture and Global Connections as well as including tools for adminstrators to use to assess the areas where the school needs to grow to more fully address global competencies.
Get Global
This organization will provide a free action kit for teachers and/or schools to increase their global connections.
Survey
Below is a survey I developed by combining ideas from the above resources.
Recommendation
I recommend that the survey below be used to assess students' global competency because it is written in student friendly language and they can easily assess their own journey using the points system. Students can use this assessment to become aware of their level of global competence. It will email results if you request it or the questions can be copied onto a document and printed to give out to a class.
The survey will also help a teacher assess his/her students. The information shared on the survey will help the teacher to complete the Global Education Checklist, which is more teacher oriented and very helpful for teachers. When I looked at the checklist, I was concerned that my students were not prepared. The survey showed me places where they are weak and strong.
I used this survey with the freshmen in their advisory classes and not only had positive feedback from the kids but many valuable comments from teachers. For example, students and teachers asked why it was important to include world issues in all core classes. This led to valuable discussion. In the Standards link, I demonstrate that Global Competencies are reflected in all content standards. Since they are addressed in all standards, shouldn't they be discussed in all content areas?
Global Competence Matrix
This matrix includes a solid list of questions to ask in order to assess how your school is doing in the area of teaching global competencies:
Global Education Checklist
This checklist is designed to evaluate a student's level of global competency. It addresses a students knowledge and skills in relation to Global Issues, Culture and Global Connections as well as including tools for adminstrators to use to assess the areas where the school needs to grow to more fully address global competencies.
Get Global
This organization will provide a free action kit for teachers and/or schools to increase their global connections.
Survey
Below is a survey I developed by combining ideas from the above resources.
Recommendation
I recommend that the survey below be used to assess students' global competency because it is written in student friendly language and they can easily assess their own journey using the points system. Students can use this assessment to become aware of their level of global competence. It will email results if you request it or the questions can be copied onto a document and printed to give out to a class.
The survey will also help a teacher assess his/her students. The information shared on the survey will help the teacher to complete the Global Education Checklist, which is more teacher oriented and very helpful for teachers. When I looked at the checklist, I was concerned that my students were not prepared. The survey showed me places where they are weak and strong.
I used this survey with the freshmen in their advisory classes and not only had positive feedback from the kids but many valuable comments from teachers. For example, students and teachers asked why it was important to include world issues in all core classes. This led to valuable discussion. In the Standards link, I demonstrate that Global Competencies are reflected in all content standards. Since they are addressed in all standards, shouldn't they be discussed in all content areas?