Go GLobal, Teach Global
A Global Education Guide
Global Assessment Tools
The tools below are a collection of resources to help assess student work for global competence. All three are slightly different but contain the major elements students need to acquire basic or complex global competencies.
Global Education Checklist: The Global Education Checklist, created by the American Forum for Global Education, is a self-assessment tool to measure the level of global engagement of students, staff, materials, administrators, districts, and other educational agencies. It is easy and straight-forward to use, with checklists divided by audience. The student knowledge of global issues checklist is a great resource to share with your students or have them evaluate their own level of knowledge.
Checklist for Teaching Global Competence: A more condensed checklist that aligns with the four major global competencies designed by the Asia Society: investigate the world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas, and take action. This practical checklist can serve as lesson objectives, goals throughout the year, or added into a rubric to evaluate a cross-cultural project.
Ideas on How to Globalize Standards: I have provided an example of how you can take state, district, or common core standards and modify to have a global focus.
K-12 Global Competence Grade-Level Indicators: Created by P21 (Partnership for 21st Century Learning), is a framework for state action on global education. This tool provides leaders with six key elements to support and implement global education at a state level. It is similar to Common Core State Standards because there is a lot of room for flexibility but is also detailed enough to describe the priority of global competencies (global society, geography, environment, education, economy, and politics.