Recommended Resources

This is where the international definition of global competence comes from, so it's worth going to the source instead of someone's summary of the source. Chapter 6 is the one you want. If the full framework feels heavy, the companion volume Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World covers the same ground in about thirty readable pages with classroom examples.

A guide to what global education looks like when you take the whole child seriously, built around boxed cases from real schools around the world. The classroom examples are the most useful part, and they're deliberately drawn from a range of countries and school types. The "3 Whys" routine inside it works on almost any unit, including ones with nothing obviously global about them.

The clearest explanation I have found of the difference between dialogue and debate, which is a distinction that quietly wrecks a lot of well-planned classroom discussions. It comes with ready-to-run activities, including a "Dialogue Is / Is Not" sort that takes about fifteen minutes and pays off for the rest of the year. Written for ages 13 to 17 and easy to adapt for younger students.

A short checklist for auditing a task you already have: is it Sustained, Authentic, Global, and are students Exhibiting the work to a real audience? This is the fastest tool on the list, because you don't start over, you upgrade what's already in your binder. Pair it with Asia Society's free performance outcomes and rubrics when you need student-facing language.

Global competence in 2026 mostly happens through a screen, and students need to be able to tell what they're looking at. More than 165 free lessons, grade-banded, that you can pull individually rather than adopting whole. "Bursting the Filter Bubble" pairs well with any unit where students research a global issue and come back convinced the internet agrees with them.

One page, four quadrants: core concepts, skills, behaviors, and values and attitudes. It works as classroom norms, as a planning check, and as a discussion protocol with colleagues who are new to this and want to find themselves in it. Available in Spanish and Korean, which matters if you're sharing it with families.