Globally competent students have the capacity:
- to recognize perspectives (others' and one's own):
- 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.
- to communicate ideas effectively across diverse audiences
- Recognize and express how diverse audiences may perceive different meanings from the same information and how that impacts communication.
- Listen to and communicate effectively with diverse people, using appropriate verbal and nonverbal behavior, languages, and strategies.
- Select and use appropriate technology and media to communicate with diverse audiences.
- Reflect on how effective communication impacts understanding and collaboration in an interdependent world.
- to investigate cultural interactions
- to be reflective about the complexities of diverse cultures.
- to investigate climate change sources and impacts: framing local problems for study, collecting and interpreting data, building informed arguments.
- to encompass—but is not limited to—education for human rights, sustainability, peace and conflict prevention, interculturality, and citizenship
- to investigate the world in the following ways:
- Identify an issue, generate a question, and explain the significance of locally, regionally, and globally focused researchable questions.
- Use a variety of languages and domestic and international sources to identify and weigh relevant evidence in addressing a globally significant researchable question.
- Analyze, integrate, and synthesize evidence to construct coherent responses to globally significant researchable questions.
- Develop an argument based on compelling evidence that considers multiple perspectives and draws defensible conclusions.