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the next generation of global thinkers and leaders into a future that is ever-changing. Innovative education is slow in making its way to schools and their leadership in the United States. Developing future leaders requires that students engage in learning that promotes skills to become globally compent. You can read more about how we should be Educating for Global Competence:Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World by clicking on the icon below.
Establishing Solutions is the heart of any type of leader, whether domestic or global. Thinking about soultions is easy - finding them and leveraging resources is difficult. The act of creating solutions means that leaders need to be able to influence across boundaries and find third-way solutions. Global leaders need skills such as, diplomacy, empathy, and a cosmopolitan outlook - knowledge of cultures, geography, histories, and people from other parts of
the world, as part of their mindset to influence change. This could be as simple
as breaking down siloed departments to cross-collaborative teaching with teachers who have classes next to one another. But this could be as challenging as establishing relations in an international arena to lead product development.
Career & college-ready students with global compenticies, will possess the skills necessary to earn a self-sustaining wage and participate in postsecondary opportunities without remediation. This means that they:
- use technology and tools strategically in learning and communicating;
- use argument and reasoning to do research, construct arguments, and critique the reasoning of others;
- communicate and collaborate effectively with a variety of audiences; and
- solve problems, construct explanations and design solutions. Equipping all students will these soft skills will enable them to be more resourceful and better able to find solutions using the assets available to them. We must not only teach our students these skills but they must also be present in those that will lead them into the unknown educational world.
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