Create Success in a Global Era
The world in which today’s students will graduate is far different than the world in which we know now. As never before, American education must prepare students for a world where the opportunities for success require the ability to compete and cooperate on a global scale. The globalization of economies, the rise of China and India, advances in science and communications technology, acceleration of international migration—and the fact that virtually every major health, environmental, and human security challenge Americans face can be solved only through international collaboration—will require our high school graduates to be far more knowledgeable about world regions, cultures, ...
Graduate Profile
Before embarking on reform, it is important to have an idea of what an internationally oriented education encompasses--and what competencies students will acquire. It is also important to have a school culture open to global learning. The Partnership for Global Learning conference will highlight several models, and offer practical advice and tools on how to create and sustain a high-quality program. Here is just one example of a graduate profile from the Asia Society International Studies Schools Network: International Studies Schools Network (ISSN) goal is that each of our students possess the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind necessary to succeed and contribute in ...
Global Competence
The concept of global competence has emerged as a way of articulating the knowledge and capacities students need in the 21st century. What are the elements of global competence? Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Understanding The bottom line? Learning content matters, here and everywhere else. Global competence requires knowledge and understanding of seminal content and skills within academic disciplines and the capacity to use disciplinary methods of inquiry creatively and productively. They need to learn to think like historians or scientists or artists. How our “Common Core” standards compare to the curriculum in Brazil, China, Russia or Nigeria matters, too. It ...
Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning
In today's world, teachers have a long wish-list for their students: They want them to be globally competent, critical thinkers across disciplines, technology literate, and collaborative, to name just a few. But those characteristics cannot be taught through traditional instruction. Project-based learning (PBL), slowly displacing traditional forms of teaching, has evolved as a way for teachers to help their students become what the world will one day demand of them. Learn more about project-based learning--and how to infuse global, interdisciplinary content--as the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning conference in July. What Is PBL, Anyway? Project-based learning is an increasingly popular approach to ...
How do we reform schools? Sound off in Washington.
President Barack Obama has called for American schools to align student achievement with the demands of the global economy, saying, “The source of America's prosperity has never been merely how ably we accumulate wealth, but how well we educate our people. This has never been more true than it is today. In a 21st-century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now competing with a child in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know -- education is no longer just ...