AT THE END OF THIS MODULE, YOU

SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

identify the characteristics of a global teacher

discuss the effects of globalization in

education, and

explain the importance of a global teacher in

the 21st century teaching and learning

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

a. Globalization and Global education

b. On Becoming a Global Teacher

The Teacher with

competence

Schema Characterizing The

Global teacher

What we need to remember

Video clips

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In the era of globalization and internationalization, the teacher is

at the forefront of meeting the challenges of the 21st century

education.

Innovations abound

Worldwide web

emerged

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A.) GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL

EDUCATION

• Globalization is multifaceted. It needs an

encompassing and multifaceted definition

to cover its complexity.

• Thomas Larkson (2001) in his book the

Race To The Top: The real story of

globalization has defined the term as the

process of world shrinkage, of distances

getting together

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Critical thinker

Creative thinker

Problem solver

Expert in his field

Good communicator

Pragmatic

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Most important skill that a global teacher

should possess.

Information literacy

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The characteristics of a global teacher

can be categorized into two:

A global teacher with CHARACTER

A global teacher with COMPETENCE

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A global teacher

should have a

heart to love the

unlovable.

Endure the

unbearable.

Have the

competence to

make learning

possible.

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Being a global

teacher must

not mean going

out of the

country and

teach there. A

global teacher

thinks globally

and acts locally.14

Being able to address diversity of learners

in his/her very own classrooms is the

essence of the global teacher.

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A global teacher with

CHARACTER A teacher should

be a model of

good behaviour

before he/she

can demand the

same behaviour.

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A teacher with desirable character should have a CLASS:

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