Educ 5810 Living And Learning Globally

EDUC 5810: Living and Learning Globally

Prerequisites:

EDUC 5710:Understanding Barriers to Learning

Course Description:

This course will focus on exploring the global competence that students need to thrive in today’s increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world. It will focus on creating learning environments and opportunities that value the world as the broadest context for learning, ensuring that students are exposed to real world questions and concerns both within and beyond their local contexts. There will be consideration of ways that teachers can foster students’ awareness of and engagement with global issues, develop open-mindedness to the perspectives of others and encourage reflection on their role as active and engaged global citizens. There will also be discussion of how language acquisition and multilingualism can provide particularly rich opportunities for the development of intercultural understanding and of an appreciation of different languages, cultures, and worldviews

Required Textbook and Materials:

The main required textbooks for this course are listed below, and can be readily accessed using the provided links. There may be additional required/recommended readings, supplemental materials, or other resources and websites necessary for lessons; these will be provided for you in the course’s General Information and Forums area, and throughout the term via the weekly course Unit areas and the Learning Guides.

This course does not contain a main textbook; resources to all required reading will be provided in the course Learning Guide for each week.
To access the LIRN resources you must log in to Moodle and access the Library and Information Resource Network (LIRN) located under the Resources link on the Home page. Click on the Alphabetical View tab at the top of the page and scroll down to the database where the resource is located (eBook Central, ERIC, Gale, etc). Copy and paste the title of the resource, into the search bar. A link to the resource will appear. If you have any problems please contact [email protected].

Software Requirements/Installation:

No special requirements.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Articulate a clear conceptual understanding of global competence in order to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate one’s own instruction and instructional programs that intentionally integrates issues of global significance in classroom learning
2. Demonstrate the disposition and capacity to understand and act on issues of global significance as well as the attributes of global competence (core concepts, values and attitudes, skills, and behaviors) to find ways to foster them in students to become globally competent by nourishing critical thinking, and expanding their understanding of the world around them.
3. Examines how language acquisition and multilingualism can provide rich opportunities for the development of intercultural understanding and utilize students’ different worldviews as assets in classroom learning.
4. Examine the purposes and quality indicators of assessment (a range of informal and formal assessments) as they relate to living and learning globally, and how to use results to plan instruction.
5. Demonstrate the ability to plan and provide instruction that systematically integrates language and content/culture based on the evaluation of student’s language proficiency and social or academic needs by designing an instructional unit that reflects the needs of students in the selected setting.

Course Schedule and Topics:

This course will cover the following topics in eight learning sessions, with one Unit per week.

Week 1: Unit 1 – Overview of the concepts and practices of global competence, including sociocultural issues and diversity

Week 2: Unit 2 – Overview of the concepts and practices of global competence, including sociocultural issues and diversity

Week 3: Unit 3 – Inquiry into the Global World: Global issues, critical questions, and social justice

Week 4: Unit 4 – Issues of Global Competence Assessment, Advocacy and Life-Long Learning

Week 5: Unit 5 – Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Accommodation, and Support

Week 6: Unit 6 – Issues of identity and belonging in a Global Community and Implications for Educating CLD Learners in Our Schools

Week 7: Unit 7 – Innovations in Schools: What are the Elements of a Globally-Oriented School or Classroom?

Week 8: Unit 8 – Teachers as Reflective Learners, Educational Leaders, Decision Makers and Change Agents