Global Education Student Assessment Tools Inventory
As all educators know, you can't effectively plan instruction until you know your students. What skills, background knowledge, experiences, understandings, interests, and competencies are they bringing to the lesson? An assessment of your students' Global Competency will first support planning and later evaluate growth.
Many tools exist to assess global competency in students, teachers, and schools. My favorite for Cougar Elementary School is the K-12 Global Competence Grade-Level Indicators collection of checklists from VIF International Education*. Since the K-2 environment encompasses so much growth and change at each grade level, these checklists zero in on exactly what age-appropriate global learning these students should be able to do. See page 11 for a user-friendly K-1 checklist, page 12 for grades 2-3, and pages 42-55 for a rubric of teacher global competency (for educator self-assessment).
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*At time of publication, the organization was known as VIF International Education. It has since re-branded as Participate!.
Since the K-2 environment encompasses so much growth and change at each grade level, these checklists zero in on exactly what age-appropriate global learning these students should be able to do. See page 11 for a user-friendly K-1 checklist, page 12 for grades 2-3, and pages 42-55 for a checklist of teacher global competency (for educator self-assessment).
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EdSteps Global Competence Matrices
Each matrix is organized according to the 4 types of Global Competence (according to the Asia Society): Investigate the World, Recognize Perspectives, Communicate Ideas, and Take Action. Columns list what the student should be able to do. In addition to assessing students, the items in the matrix can also supply learning objectives. Each subject area, including the arts and world languages, gets its own specific matrix.
Rubric from TGC Fellow Anna Pacifico
Teachers for Global Classrooms alum and ESL teacher Anna Pacifico created a rubric to evaluate students' global competencies. This is the clearest way I've found to quickly assess student work for global competence. Check out Ms. Pacifico's Global Education Guide at buffaloschools.org/Page/17104.
Global Education Checklist for Teachers, Schools, School Systems and State Education Agencies, by Fred Czarra and the American Forum for Global Education
This checklist is broken down by stakeholder. Each item can be rated on a 1-4 scale. Use this checklist to think about your students overall and where they can go next with global education!