The Importance of Having Globally Competent Teachers

    NEW YORK, NY, October 05, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- All countries share a common desire to create a high-quality education system that prepares children for success in their lives. Randi Weingarten is the President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which represents educators and healthcare professionals to make sure that fairness and democracy prevails. In a new interview with C. M. Rubin, author of The Global Search for Education, Weingarten, who has attended the International Summits on the Teaching Profession and done study visits to many other nations, discusses what has impressed her most from around the world that we might be able to use in the U.S.

Are our teachers sufficiently equipped to deal with global competencies? What needs to be improved? Are we doing enough to expose our students to other cultures?

Weingarten notes that "students gain global and cultural competency when they are exposed to people who are different than they are, and to the art, music, history and culture of other nations, races and peoples. But in too many schools in the U.S., over-testing and under-funding are narrowing curricula, as public schools across the country become increasingly re-segregated."

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