The Global and
Glocal Teacher
Professional:
Is there a difference?
Global and Glocal Teacher Education
Global Education has been best described by two
definitions:
Is a goal to develop countries worldwide and is
aimed at educating all people in accordance
with world standards. ~ UNESCO
Is a curriculum that is international in scope which
prepares today’s youth around the world to
function in one world environment under teachers
who are intellectually, professionally and
humanistically prepared.
UNESCO’s Education 2030 Incheon Decleration during the
World Education Forum established a vision, “Towards inclusive
and equitable quality educational lifelong learning for all.”
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 must have been
achieved. These are:
1. Universal primary & secondary education
2. Early childhood & development and universal pre-primary
education
3. Equal access to technical/vocational & higher education
4. Relevant skills for decent work
5. Gender equality & inclusion
6. Universal youth literacy
7. Education for sustainable development & global citizenship
One of the means to achieve the target is to increase the
supply of qualified teachers, through international
cooperation for teacher training in developing countries,
especially the least developed countries and island
developing states.
Global Education (James Becker 1998)
as an effort to help individual learners to see the world as
a single and global system and to see themselves as a
participant in that system.
it is a school curriculum that has a worldwide standard of
teaching and learning.
this curriculum prepares learners in an international
marketplace with a world view of international
understanding.
in his article “Goals of Global Education”, he emphasizes
that global education incorporates into the curriculum and
educational experiences of each student a knowledge
and empathy of each cultures of the nation and the world.
Likewise students are encouraged to see the world as a
whole, learn various cultures to make them better relate
and function effectively within various cultural groups.
Thus, to meet the various global challenges of the future,
the 21st Century Learning Goals have been established as
bases of various curricula worldwide. These learning goals
include:
1. 21st century content: emerging content areas such as
global awareness, financial, economic, business &
entrepreneurial literacy; civic literacy; health &
environmental awareness.
2. Learning and thinking skills: critical thinking and
problem solving skills, communication, creativity and
innovation, collaboration, contextual learning,
information and media literacy.
ICT literacy: using technology in the context of learning so students
know how to learn.
Life skills: leadership, ethics, accountability, personal responsibility,
self-direction, others.
21st century assessment: authentic assessments that
measure the areas of learning.
Glocal Education
is about diversity, understanding the differences and
teaching the different cultural grops in their own context to
achieve the goals of global education as presented by the
United Nations.
provides equal opportunity and access to knowledge and
learning tools which are the basic rights of every child in
every community, locality within the global community.
From Global Teacher to Glocal Teacher Professionals
Glocal Teacher
is a global teacher who is competent & armed with
enough skills, appropriate attitude & universal values to
teach learners at home or abroad but is equipped with
both time tested as well as modern technologies in
education in any time & any place in the world.
is someone who thinks and acts both locally & globally
with worldwide perspectives, but is teaching in the
communities, localities, towns, provinces & regions where
he or she is situated.
Glocal Teachers is characterized by several qualities & attributes:
understand how this world is interconnected;
recognize that the world has rich variety of ways of life;
have a vision of the future and sees what the future would be
for himself/herself and the students;
are creative & innovative;
understand, respect and tolerant of the diversity of cultures;
believe & take action for education that will sustain the future;
facilitate digitally-mediated learning;
possess good communication skills
aware of international teacher standards & framework; and
master the competencies of the Beginning Teacher in the
Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers. (PPST, 2017)
Glocal Teachers also must possess the following distict
characteristics & core values of Filipino Teachers:
(Master Plan for Teachers Education, 2017)
Cultural & historical rootedness
Ability to contextualize teaching-learning
Excellence
Responsiveness
Accountability & Integrity
Ecological sensitivity
Nationalism/Filipinism
Faith in the Divine Providence
“A teacher who is global is also a
glocal teacher and a glocal teacher
can also be a global”
