Global Education Student Assessment Tools
The skills required for successful participation in the world—such as responsible citizenship, innovative entrepreneurship, and active leadership, among others—are not specific to any one course or classroom. A globally focused school fosters the development of these skills through service learning, internships, field trips, performances and exhibits, and other experiential projects, both during the school day and via afterschool and summer programs.
These grade-appropriate rubrics and matrices will help you assess all of this!
The Global Competency Learning Continuum
This is the best place to begin your global competency reflection. Use this continuum to assess your own level of global competence, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and your target areas for growth. The next step is to identify concrete steps you will take to reach the next level of proficiency. Determine a timeline for when you will revisit the continuum, your goals, and your progress; track your progress and continuously strive to improve your global competence.
This matrix from the United State Department of Education could be a valuable tool for department-wide assessment of global competency across grade levels. In a 6-12 learning environment, which includes middle, high, and post-secondary education, it is important that teachers can take a step back and see the stages before and after their specialty.
These rubrics from Asia Society are designed to encourage students to know they can have an impact and are not powerless in the face of large, complex, and often seemingly intractable global issues they study. Their readiness to decide to act in Global Leadership allows them to demonstrate their knowledge of the world and teaches them how to be part of a global community. This decision will likely impact their college and career planning.
This toolbox of strategies will provide you with new ways to help students make their thinking visible. The value of this tool lies in its neurodiverse approach and scaffolded sequences. No matter your content area, you will find multiple routines that will invigorate lessons and increase self-awareness in your students.
