Global Pathways Curriculum Institute: Facilitating Global Competency

May 11-June 19, 2009 (Summer B)

The Global Pathways Initiative is pleased to announce a faculty development opportunity: “Global Pathways Curriculum Institute: Facilitating Global Competency.”Our purpose is to engage faculty in activities which increase global learning opportunities for our students and begin to build a faculty community interested in global learning .

Faculty, tenure-track and non tenure-track, are invited to participate in weekly institute meetings during five weeks of summer session B, May 11-June 12, 2009. Participants and the Global Pathways and Exchanges Coordinator, Dr. Cadence Kidwell, will address the instructional challenge: ”How can instructors create learning opportunities that develop global competency?” The five-week institute will end with a faculty demonstration of strategies and content.

Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 13, 2009.
Selected faculty will be announced Wednesday, April 15.

We request that successful participants be available for the first five weeks of summer session B to work in small groups with Dr. Kidwell to design and develop one activity and outline one corresponding assessment that encourages students to develop global competency.

Global Pathways is an ongoing joint effort of the International Center, the Division of Academic Affairs and the Claude Pepper Center for Intercultural Dialogue.

(The Global Pathways Curriculum Institute is a non-funded faculty development opportunity.) 

Benefits

Participating faculty will:

• Enjoy access to colleagues who are making similar changes in their syllabi and pedagogical habits.
• Revise or develop a new course that can be submitted to meet the Cross-Cultural / Multicultural requirement (x) or Diversity in Western Culture requirement (y).
• Develop an active, supportive, and collaborative network of colleagues who are currently encouraging global competency or approved multicultural courses.
• Extend their knowledge and expertise in developing and teaching global education courses within their discipline.

The Institute

In an effort to address the instructional challenge: "how to develop learning opportunities that encourage students to develop global competencies," the Global Pathways Initiative is sponsoring an institute on facilitating global competencies that meets over five weeks.  The purpose of the institute is to engage faculty in activities and course development to increase global learning opportunities for their students and to begin to build a faculty community interested in global learning. 

Faculty will choose one of the following learning outcomes that they want to incorporate into their course, “Students will be able to”…:

• Communicate effectively and appropriately in cross-cultural situations.     
• Describe how cultures are both related and diverse.
• Demonstrate how our contemporary world is made up of a diversity of cultures and experiences.
• Demonstrate how world geography, impending changes in the global climate, social and economic conditions, political and religious differences and events affect the rest of the world.
• Interpret the complexity and interdependency of world issues and events and the historical forces that have shaped our current world.
• Demonstrate attitudes of respect, openness, curiosity and discovery towards a culture different from the student’s own.
• Apply self-understanding of how the student’s cultural history shapes their interactions with those of other cultures.

Format

Three Large Group Sessions:

• Monday, May 11: 9:00 AM - Noon (Session 1)
• Wednesday, May 13: 9:00 AM - Noon (Session 2)
• Friday, June 12: 9:00 AM - Noon (Session 3)

Four Weekly Small Group Meetings:

• The weeks of May 8 through June 11: a mutually convenient time for weekly two-hour meetings will be arranged with the small group.

Session 1: Introduction, overview and discussion on global learning strategies.

Session 2: Participation in various learning strategies and technologies that can be used to foster global learning.

Four Weekly Small Group Meetings: to share discovered research of best practices, progress and ideas. Faculty groups will be determined by similar course content and/or similar learning outcomes faculty chose to develop. Each of the four weekly meeting will have deliverables.

Session 3: Faculty demonstration of one activity and outline of one corresponding assessment that encourages students to develop global competency.

Terms of participation

Dates:

Summer 2009 session B: five weeks May 11-June 12, 2009

Commitments:

Attend five weekly meetings plus 1 demonstration. Complete and submit assignments. At the end of the Institute, submit a 1-page summary and participate in a discourse of how you will enhance your course(s) with the strategies and content that you investigated and how you will know that these enhancements are successful. Submit an implementation report at the end of the Fall semester as a resource for the Global Pathways website. Participate in a faculty seminar during International Education Week (November 2009).

For questions email Dr. Cadence Kidwell, Global Pathways and Exchanges Coordinator