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A list of resources to help in developing our students' global competencies.
Updated on Nov 24, 14
Created on Oct 22, 14
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Barbara Lindsey's List: ACTFL Global Competencies
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Sep 18, 14
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The ability to communicate with respect and cultural understanding in more than one language is an essential element of global competence.* This competence is developed and demonstrated by investigating the world, recognizing and weighing perspectives, acquiring and applying disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge, communicating ideas, and taking action.
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- Communicate in the language of the people with whom one is interacting.
- Interact with awareness, sensitivity, empathy, and knowledge of the perspectives of others.
- Withhold judgment, examining one’s own perspectives as similar to or different from the perspectives of people with whom one is interacting.
- Be alert to cultural differences in situations outside of one’s culture, including noticing cues indicating miscommunication or causing an inappropriate action or response in a situation.
- Act respectfully according to what is appropriate in the culture and the situation where everyone is not of the same culture or language background, including gestures, expressions, and behaviors.
- Increase knowledge about the products, practices, and perspectives of other cultures.
Describing Global Competence:
Global competence is the ability to:
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Nov 19, 13
http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/21stCenturySkillsMap/p21_worldlanguagesmap.pdf
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Oct 01, 14
From the Council of Chief State School Officers
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Projects
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Feb 07, 13
This is one of the Skype in the classroom lessons that teachers and students of Spanish can become involved in.
Even if you can't participate in this lesson, you could take this idea and adapt it for your students and seek a Skype Classroom connected teacher to do your lesson with. -
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Sep 20, 11
This is the original Global Read Aloud Project. The French Global Read Aloud Project is an offshoot of this and is linked here. Currently French is the only other language.
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Oct 01, 14
A good resource to use to move from global awareness to global competence.
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Thoughts and Questions about the Lunch Pictures from Jess McCulloch on Vimeo.
3B ask some questions and make some comments about the pictures of lunches from around the world that are part of http://lunchboxproject.wikispaces.com
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