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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2018/02/teaching_for_global_competence_in_a_rapidly_changing_world.html

Global Competence in Practice
Richard Lee Colvin
February 5, 2018

While teaching a unit on people who make a difference in the world as part of her German curriculum, Mareike Hachemer came to a realization: her students felt powerless to address the issues facing their community, let alone their country or the world. Wanting to change their minds, Hachemer helped them choose projects that could be completed in a month or less, set goals, define success, anticipate challenges, and determine what resources they'd need and how to get them. The students took action in a variety of ways: volunteering in an animal shelter, making friends with homeless people and eating with them, talking to younger children about proper eating habits, and coaching children's soccer.

Not earth-shattering, perhaps. But the students each learned a valuable lesson: although young, they could take steps to address community issues. "Efficacy is the best thing we can teach our students," Hachemer says. "If they know that if they do something, that they can change something, even if it is a small thing, the next time it will be something bigger."

Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2018/02/teaching_for_global_competence_in_a_rapidly_changing_world.html