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Window to the WorldCreating Global Citizens through the North Carolina Essential Standards
NCDPI K-12 Social Studies Team:
Section ChiefFay [email protected]
Program AssistantBernadette [email protected]
K-12 ConsultantAnn [email protected]
K-12 ConsultantSteve [email protected]
K-12 ConsultantMichelle [email protected]
NCDPI Instructional Technology PartnerGail [email protected]
http://ssnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/
Objectives
• The importance of citizenship
• Teaching about global citizenship
• Essential Standards and Global Citizenship Collaborative Talk
• Resources
Why Does Citizenship Matter?
• “But the United States and its democracy are constantly evolving and in continuous need of citizens who can adapt its enduring traditions and values to meet changing circumstances. Meeting that need is the mission of the social studies.” (NCSS, 2010)
The Civic Responsibility
• Preparing students to become active citizens should begin as early as Kindergarten!
• Outside of parents, YOU are going to the be the first ones to teach little ones about good citizenship!
The Global Citizen• What do you think of when you hear the term ‘global citizenship’?
• Why does global civic education matter?
• “Global and international education are important because the day-to-day lives of average citizens around the world are influenced by burgeoning international connections. The human experience is an increasingly globalized phenomenon in which people are constantly being influenced by transnational, cross-cultural, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic interactions. The goods we buy, the work we do, the cross-cultural links we have in our own communities and outside them, and increased worldwide communication capabilities all contribute to an imperative that responsible citizens understand global and international issues. The increasing globalization in the human condition has created additional opportunities and responsibilities for individuals and groups to take personal, social, and political action in the international arena” (NCSS, 2001)
In the World
• Incorporating global citizenship education does NOT reduce or weaken national citizenship education– Increasing interconnectedness demands greater
attention to global issues and global citizenship!
– You cannot teach global citizenship without teaching national citizenship!
Connecting to the World
• Being an effective global citizen requires the ability to communicate with others across the globe!
• Incorporating digital technologies into the curriculum at all levels facilitates connection and expands learning
• http://novemberlearning.com/resources/articles/
Global Citizenship and Empathy
• “Cultural empathy or intercultural competence is commonly articulated as a goal of global education, and there is significant literature on these topics. Intercultural competence occupies a central position in…thinking about global citizenship and is seen as an important skill in the workplace…Cultural empathy helps people see questions from multiple perspectives and move deftly among cultures—sometimes navigating their own multiple cultural identities, sometimes moving out to experience unfamiliar cultures.”—Association of International Educators, http://www.nafsa.org/about/default.aspx?id=30005
Character Education
• At its core, global citizenship relies and builds upon character education!
• What you are doing in your classrooms in the pursuit of creating students of good character already contributes to developing strong national and global citizens!
Tying It All Together: Children’s Literature and Global Citizenship
Valerie R. Helterbran (Winter 2009). Linking character education and global understanding through children’s picture books, Kappa Delta Pi Record, 72.
How do you address it?
• What issues, problems, or concerns have you had concerning citizenship education?
The Essential Standards on Citizenship
• Citizenship education infused throughout the standards!
• Standards address both national and global citizenship if considered through a civic lens!
The Standards
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Third Grade
• Fourth Grade
• Fifth Grade
Brainstorm!• With a colleague, look at the provided
standards/objectives for the grade level of your choice that could be used in a unit or lesson on national and global citizenship.
• What sorts of concepts relating to global citizenship would you be able to teach using the given standards?
Ideas
• Looking at the standards and the concepts that you came up with, work with colleagues to brainstorm possible ideas centering around preparing students to become active national and global citizens.
Share Out
• So what ideas did we come up with? Select one or two ideas to share with the room!
Possible Idea
• Kindergarten: KG.1.2: using maps to locate places of origin for families and friends; KH.1.2: how the seasons change in those places
• First Grade: 1.H.1.2, 1.C.1.1, 1.C.1.2: where do our stories come from?
More Ideas
• Second Grade: 2.H.1.1, 2.H.1.2, 2.G.2.2: How do global leaders/events impact us?
• Third Grade: 3.H.1.2, 3.H.2.1, 3.G.1.5: how can leadership change the world?
• Fourth Grade: 4.C.1.1, 4.E.1.3, 4.G.1.4, 4.H.1.3: How has North Carolina shaped and been shaped by the global community?
Even More
• Fifth Grade: 5.H.1.1, 5.G.1.3, 5.G.1.4, 5.C&G.1.1, 5.C.1.4: How have global interactions affected North Carolina and the United States over time?
Resources• North Carolina Social Studies Wiki:
http://ssnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/
• National Council of the Social Studieshttp://www.socialstudies.org/
• Assessment Sampleshttp://ssnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Assessment+Samples+%26+Assessment+Information
Additional Reources
• http://smithsonianeducation.org/
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
• http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm
• http://publications.newberry.org/k12maps/
• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
• http://www.civics.unc.edu/resources/intro.php
• http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
• http://edsitement.neh.gov/
