Cultivating Global Citizens: A Tool and Case Studies for School Leaders

This tool, a self-administered rating scale, is intended as a support and means of self-assessment, a way of measuring your school’s current achievements while offering guidance on how to craft, revise, or deepen your school’s global vision.

How might your school optimally use this rating scale? We suggest that at least five school personnel with different roles or vantage points within your school complete the scale. After you collect this data, a core “leadership group” might analyze the results and discuss what they imply in terms of next steps. You might follow this analysis with a process, possibly including many more educators at this stage, of sharing your findings and generating new or revised goals. This needs to be followed by a realistic, staged plan for implementation. We hope that the case studies of schools modeling different aspects of global citizenship education across the world, will prove useful and inspirational in demonstrating how this work is being done in actual schools. This rating scale was created by the Global Citizenship Alliance of the Global Education and Skills Forum, sponsored by The Varkey Foundation (2017-2018).