Global education and the global teacher

HOW DO you prepare yourselves as teachers for a challenging task of making learners of today live meaningful lives tomorrow? As you prepare children for their future, teachers need to explore what the future holds.

Teachers have to envision creative, innovative ways to prepare diverse learners in their own cultural context without forgetting that they live in a global village.

To compete globally simple mean to prepare teachers who are capable of changing lifelong education needs. How do you prepare for these needs?

UNESCO defines global education as a goal to become aware of educational conditions or lack of it, in developing countries worldwide and aim to educate all peoples to a certain world standards.

Another definition of global education states that it is a curriculum that is international in scope, which prepares today’s youth around the world to function in one world environment under teachers who are intellectually, professionally and humanistically prepared.

What is a global teacher? A global

teacher is a competent teacher who is armed with enough skills, appropriate attitude and universal values to teach students with both time tested as well as modern technologies in education in any place in the world.

He or she is someone who thinks and acts both locally and globally with worldwide perspectives, right in the communities where he or she is situated.

Global education requires future teachers the skills for the 21st century so that all will be ready to play a significant role to provide educational access to all types of learners all over the world. This teacher is a global teacher, and there are millions of global teachers needed now and in the future. ( Paid article)