Classroom instruction has the power to shape how students perceive the world and ready them for a lifetime of thoughtful global citizenship. But it can be challenging to prioritize global competency knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors among the many demands on instructional time. In this course, instructors from Global Cities, Inc., a program of Bloomberg Philanthropies, will guide you to use the Global Cities Codebook for Global Learning Outcomes to recognize opportunities to teach content and competency together in any course or program. Instructors will share educator examples from around the world alongside research-backed tools and strategies from our decade-long virtual exchange program, Global Scholars, to help you integrate global competency into daily instruction, so it becomes part of why, what, and how your students learn. This course will prepare you to:

  1. Identify alignment between Global Cities’ global student learning outcomes and local instructional requirements.
  2. Design and teach learning activities that advance instructional requirements alongside a specific global student learning outcome.
  3. Analyze student work samples for evidence of global competency learning.
  4. Reflect on the process and impact of prioritizing, teaching, and measuring students’ global competency.

You will complete the course with a global competency teaching portfolio that demonstrates how you prioritize, teach, and measure students’ global competency development within content-area instruction.