Global Competence Essentials
A practical, hands-on workshop that introduces educators to the foundations of global and intercultural competence, with ready-to-use strategies for building inclusive, globally aware classrooms.
About
This highly interactive, engaging and hands on one day workshop (or online format) will help teachers understand the basics of global competence and, in particular, the intercultural understanding component.
The workshop provides a solid overview of the key principles for intercultural competence together with a variety of experiential activities ready to be applied in the classroom to advance the general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum.
Online or in person learning
This program can be delivered as a 90-minute short course online, or delivered as a full day facilitated course in person.
Learning Outcomes
- Define global and intercultural competence
- Identify the key skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to develop intercultural competence
- Connect learning to the Australian Curriculum and other international frameworks
- Describe the different layers of culture and how the values and beliefs shape our view of the world
- Apply a variety of techniques to suspend judgment in an intercultural situation
- Apply different activities for intercultural understanding in the classroom.
