Embedding a Global-Minded Culture

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – The Exemplifying a Global-Minded Culture Micro-Credential requires that the practitioner demonstrates proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include the ability to support a global perspective in learning; pursue partnerships and community connections that promote a global-minded perspective; analyze current stakeholder attitudes, knowledge, and awareness of global perspectives among stakeholders; and provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best practice in establishing global curricular connections and partnerships for students, staff, and organizational improvement. Schools can incorporate a global learning dimension into curricular or extracurricular school offerings by offering programs such as the IB program, partnering with schools in other countries, having staff participate in international exchanges, promoting values such as social justice, broadening language offerings, and hosting guest speakers and visitors from outside the school community (Marshall, 2007).

Essential Outcomes – Exemplifying a Global-Minded Culture includes the following four identified essential outcomes:

1. Support a global perspective in learning.
2. Pursue partnerships and community connections that promote a global-minded perspective.
3. Analyze current stakeholder attitudes, knowledge, and awareness of global perspectives among stakeholders.
4. Provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best practice in establishing global curricular connections and partnerships for students, staff, and organizational improvement.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. What resources and supports have you implemented to support and promote a global perspective in learning?
2. What processes and procedures have you established that reflect partnerships and community connections that promote a global-minded perspective?
3. What specific strategies or approaches are used to analyze current stakeholder attitudes, knowledge, and awareness of global perspectives among stakeholder groups?
4. What processes have you used for developing a plan that ensures alignment of establishing global curricular connections and partnerships for students, staff, and the improvement of the organization?

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Embedding a Global-Minded Culture Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each EO detail you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Embedding a Global-Minded Culture (500-word minimum). Provide specific examples of how you applied all components of the essential outcomes. This could include topics covered and a description of the process used to embed a global mindset. You need to fully address each of the essential outcomes and explain your role in the following:

1. Supporting a global perspective in learning.
2. Pursuing partnerships and community connections that promote a global-minded perspective.
3. Analyzing current stakeholder attitudes, knowledge, and awareness of global perspectives among stakeholders.
4. Providing a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best practice in establishing global curricular connections and partnerships for students, staff, and organizational improvement.