On Becoming a

Global Teacher
- Purita P. Bilbao, Ed. D.
 Being world-class does not
mean going internationally and
showing our best out there.
Being world-class is passion
and commitment to our
profession; being world class is
giving our best to teaching.
Being world-class starts right
inside the classroom.

-Conrado de Quiros
 On Becoming a Global Teacher
We live in a “global village, hence a need for
global teachers.”
▪ Our world has been called a “global village”.
Satellite communications make possible
television, telephone and documents
transmitted through fax and electronic mails
across thousands of miles in thousandths of a
second.
▪ Students can view: (Worldwide web of the information highway)
▪ Global warfare (Middle East)
▪ Famine (Africa)
▪ Industrial pollution (Europe)
▪ Industrial breakthrough (Korea or Japan)
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▪ Global Education
▪ Poses variety of goals ranging from
increased knowledge about the peoples
of the world
▪ Increased fluency in foreign languages
▪ Embraces today’s challenges as
national borders are opened
▪ It paves the way for borderless
education
▪ It offers new curricular dimensions and
possibilities, current scientific and
technological breakthroughs
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▪ Contemporary curricula respond to the
concept of this village.
▪ The increased use of the technology in
the classroom, the incorporation of the
changing realities of our world’s society,
and the ease of mobility of peoples of the
world have become a challenge to your
preparation as prospective teachers.
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▪ Future teacher like you should prepare to
respond to these multiple challenges.
▪ To become a global teacher, you should be
equipped with a wider range of knowledge of the
various educational systems outside the
country; master skills and competencies which
can address global demands; and possess
attitudes and values that are acceptable to
multicultural communities.
▪ When you are able to satisfy the benchmark
requirements, then you can safely say, you have
prepared well to be a great teacher of the world.
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As future teachers,
think globally, but
act locally! You can
be a global teacher
by being the best
teacher in your
school.
Global Education
and the Global
Teacher
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Global Education
Global education has been best describe by two
definitions:
1. 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 people to a certain world standards.
2. 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.
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The United Nations entered into an agreement to pursue
six goals to achieve some standard of education in
placed by 2015 worldwide. To achieved global
education, the UN sets the following goals:
1. Expand early childhood care education
2. Provide free and compulsory primary education for
all.
3. Promote learning and life skills for young and adult.
4. Increase adult literacy by 50%.
5. Achieve gender parity by 2015, gender quality by 2015
and
6. Improve quality of education.
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James Becker (1982) defined

global education as an effort to
help individual learners to see
the world as a single and global
system and to see themselves as
a participant in that system.
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Thus, to meet the various global challenges of the
future, the 21st Century Learning Goals have been
established as basis of various curricula
worldwide. These learning goals include:
▪ 21st century content: emerging content areas
such as global awareness, financial, economic,
business, and entrepreneurial literacy; civic
literacy; health and awareness.
▪ Learning and thinking skills: critical thinking
and problem solving skills, communication,
creativity and innovation, collaboration,
contextual learning, information and, media
literacy.
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▪ ICT literacy: Using technology in the

context of learning so students know
how to learn.
▪ Life Skills: Leadership, ethics,
accountability, personal
responsibility, self- directions, other
▪ 21st Century Assessment: Authentic
assessment that measure the areas
of learning.
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Global education is all about

diversity, understanding the
differences and teaching the
different cultural group in order
to achieve the goals of global
education as presented by the
United Nations.
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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.
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More specifically a global Filipino teacher should
have the following qualities and characteristics in
addition to knowledge, skills and values:
▪ Understands how this world is interconnected;
▪ Recognizes that the world has rich variety of
ways of life;
▪ Has a vision of the future and sees what the
future would be for himself/herself and the
students ;
▪ Must be creative and innovative;
▪ Must understand, respect and be tolerant of the
diversity of cultures;
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▪ Must believe and take action for education that
well sustain future;
▪ Must be able to facilitate digitally-mediated
learning;
▪ Must have depth knowledge; and
▪ Must possess good communication skills (for
Filipino teachers to be multilingual).
▪ And lastly but more importantly,
▪ Must possess the competencies of a
professional teacher as embodies in the
National Competency-Based Standards for
Teachers (NCBTS).
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The need for global teacher is
on the rise in several countries
worldwide. Even develop
countries are in dire need of
competent teachers who will
man the countries' rural and
urban classrooms.
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Summary
Global education is a concept that brings us to
understand the connectivity of each member citizen in
the planet. The advancement of technology shrank the
world to a size that everyone can be reached. Because of
this development, we have to learn the diversity or
differences in cultures to order to address the global
standards for education set by the United Nations.
Global educations 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.