What does it mean to be a Global Educator?

And how can we design lessons that help students become Global

Citizens?

Honor MoormanISSN Summer Institute 2015

Agenda

• Welcome, Introductions, & Overview• Defining Global Citizenship• World Savvy Survey• Video: Global Citizen Journey• What does Mark Gerzon Have to Say?• Designing Lessons for Global

Citizenship• Discussion

Welcome & Introductions

Essential Questions

• How can students become active global citizens?

• How can we as educators help students develop as global citizens?

• How can the global citizen framework help us develop lessons/modules that develop global competence?

Workshop Goals

• To broaden and deepen our collective understanding of global citizenship.

• To explore how Mark Gerzon’s concepts of global citizenship can support our work as global educators.

• To apply a framework for developing global citizenship to our lesson/module design process.

Today, more than ever before, the global is part of our everyday local lives.

We are linked to others on every continent . . .

socially, culturally, economically, politically, environmentally.

Where do you experience the global in your local life?

“You Paris and Me” CC by Nina Matthews via Flickr

A global economy means new ways of working.

“Tokyo1950” CC by tokyoform via Flickr

Global issues require local solutions.

“Pinteresting” CC by Dave77459 via Flickr

A changing world demands new capacities.

“Fargone” CC by iammikeb via Flickr

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Moving From Global Awarenessto Global Citizenship

http://worldsavvy.org/about/why-need/world-savvy-global-competency-research-results/

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AgreeDisagree86%

Say a solid foundation in world history and events is crucial to solving the problems in the world today.

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AgreeDisagree37%

Say that world events were discussed regularly in their high school classes.

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AgreeDisagree37%

Say that world events were discussed regularly in their high school classes.

What does

mean to you?

How are the characteristics of global citizenship connected and inter-related?

We are all global citizens.

We have the power to create a better world.

~Mark Gerzon

Global citizens: how our vision of the world is outdated, and what we can do about it

http://books.google.com/books?id=e0ZDAQAAIAAJ

Video: Global Citizen Journey

http://youtu.be/uXoRd45cih4

Global CitizenshipQuotation Connections

• Partner A shares his/her quote• Partner A comments on the quote• Partner B responds to the quote• Partner B shares his/her quote• Partner B comments on the quote• Partner A responds to the quote• Trade quotes and find a new partner• Repeat

“The truth is that we are all profoundly affected by the decisions and actions of people whose faces we may never see, whose language we may never speak, and whose names we would not recognize – and they, too, are affected by us. Our well-being and in some cases our survival, depends on recognizing this truth and taking responsibility as global citizens for it.”

~Mark Gerzon, American Citizen,Global Citizen, p. xii

Genes

Economies Religions

Food

Possessions

Environment

“The shift of worldviews begins with Einstein’s counsel: ‘We cannot solve problems at the same level of awareness that created them.’ So even as we pledge our loyalty to different nations, carry different currencies, serve in opposing armies, and follow different leaders, we must shift our level of awareness to include what is global.”

~Mark Gerzon, American Citizen, Global Citizen, pp. xvii-xviii

“Spiral Snow Labyrinth” CC by Roger Lynn on Flickr

Citizen 1.0 – EgocentricCitizen 2.0 – IdeocentricCitizen 3.0 – SociocentricCitizen 4.0 – MulticentricCitizen 5.0 – Geocentric

The Five Stages of Becoming a Global Citizen

“Spiral Snow Labyrinth” CC by Roger Lynn on Flickr

Worldview based on . . .

Citizen 1.0 – One’s selfCitizen 2.0 – One’s groupCitizen 3.0 – One’s nation

Citizen 4.0 – Multiple culturesCitizen 5.0 – The whole earth

The Five Stages of Becoming a Global Citizen

“Citizens 1.0-3.0 want to believe that their group, or their country, is right and others, therefore, must be wrong. But as we evolve into 4.0-5.0 we recognize the likelihood of encountering multiple versions of reality and we accept that it is our responsibility to learn to make sense out of them. . . . The challenge of global citizens is to un-learn the half-truths that separate us and re-learn the deeper truths that connect us.”

Four Main Actions Required for Developing Global Citizenship

• Witnessing – open our eyes• Learning – opening our minds• Connecting – opening our hearts• Geo-partnering – opening our hands

Designing Lessons for Global Citizenship

Investigate the world

Recognize perspective

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Communicate ideasTake action

Designing Lessons for Global Citizenship

• Citizen 1.0• Citizen 2.0• Citizen 3.0• Citizen 4.0• Citizen 5.0

• Citizen 1.0• Citizen 2.0• Citizen 3.0• Citizen 4.0• Citizen 5.0

• Citizen 1.0• Citizen 2.0• Citizen 3.0• Citizen 4.0• Citizen 5.0

• Citizen 1.0• Citizen 2.0• Citizen 3.0• Citizen 4.0• Citizen 5.0

Investigate the world

Recognize perspectives

Communicate ideasTake action