Globally competent students are able to recognize perspectives in the following ways:

• Recognize and express their own perspective on situations, events, issues, or phenomena and identify the influences on that perspective.
• Examine perspectives of other people, groups, or schools of thought and identify the influences on those perspectives.
• Explain how cultural interactions influence situations, events, issues, or phenomena, including the development of knowledge.
• Articulate how differential access to knowledge, technology, and resources affects quality of life and perspectives.

This section of the resources is intended to share ideas with teachers that they can use with students to help them recognize their own and others' perspectives' on the topics of names, identities, cultures and global awareness. Some of the resources listed here could address one or more aspects of global competence: Investigate the World (IW), Recognize Perspectives (RP), Communicate Ideas (CI) and Take Action (TA).

SUGGESTED IDEAS

• Have students share their name stories from two different perspectives (One perspective from the student; another perspective as someone who comes from a different cultural background)
• Have students use multimedia to create a presentation on the story of their name or a family member's name and receive feedback to the presentation from someone who comes from a different cultural background
• Have students make their names into a poem using the letters to begin each line
• Have students write an essay comparing how two different cultures celebrate the naming of a baby
• Have students create an infographic on the origin of a name from two different perspectives

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ARTICLES

Education for Global Citizenship, Oxfam's guide to building a global citizenship curriculum that includes knowledge and understanding, skills, values and attitudes. (IW, RP, CI, TA)

Names Do Matter, by Sara Wicht - Another perspective on names of individuals, schools, monuments and a perspective on naming them. (IW, RP, CI, TA)

BOOK

Peace Corps. (2013). Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding. A classroom guide designed for teachers to create a more globally aware and globally competent classroom. Lessons for Grades 6-12 National Geographic Education Foundation. (IW, RP, CI, TA)

ONLINE RESOURCES

An online social network that enables users to build connections by exchanging short messages. Twitter (IW, RP, CI, TA)

Online tool that allows users to upload media and comment through a variety of methods and creates a global audience for student work in a safe environment. VoiceThread (IW, RP, CI, TA)

VIDEO

Global Education and Global Citizenship, Education is becoming more and more present in the educational systems around the globe. Do young people, who were born into the globalized world, consider themselves global citizens? (video, 12:00) (IW, RP)

WEBSITES

A site where educators who care about diversity, equity and justice can find news, suggestions, conversation and support Teaching Tolerance (IW, RP, CI, TA)

Expeditions is a virtual reality platform built for the classroom. More than 100 engaging journeys - making it easy to immerse students in entirely new experience Google Expeditions(IW, RP, CI)

Help students think about their place in the world and their responsibility to society with this range of free teaching resources focusing on global citizenship. Global Citizenship Teaching Resources (IW, RP, CI)

The global guessing game that gets kids learning about geography, culture, and the similarities and differences of how children live all over the world. Watch a video to see how it works. Mystery Skype (IW, RP, CI)

The National Geographic Society is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, and the promotion of environmental and historical conservation. National Geographic (IW, RP, CI)

Primary Source promotes global learning by providing training and resources through their collaborative communities. (IW, RP, CI)

The Smithsonian Education website provides heritage teaching resources to help teachers honor the federally mandated Heritage Months namely Black History Month, Asian Pacific Americans Month, American Indian Heritage Month, Women's History Month and Hispanic Heritage Month. (IW, RP, CI)

Use this guide to find virtual field trips that include Asian Art, National Geographic, and the Holocaust Memorial. Graphite Virtual Field Trip Guide (IW, RP, CI)