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Common Core Connection: Global CompetencyCommon Core Connection: Global Competency ResourcesThe Common Core emphasizes nonfiction and asks that students “integrate and evaluate contentpresented in diverse formats and media, including visually” (ELA 7). Here are some resources tosupport Social Studies teachers in implementing the Common Core Standards into a globally-mindedcurriculum:• Asia Society: Common Core: Getting There Globallyhttp://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/professional-learning/common-coregetting-there-globallyWith the Common Core assessments coming online in 2014-2015, educators have had tograpple with tough questions on a tight timeline: What does a lesson that is aligned to theCommon Core look like in practice? Must the standards’ emphasis on skills come at theexpense of important content knowledge? And what is a complex informational text?• Primary Source: Reading Nonfiction: A Global Approach to the Common Corehttp://resources.primarysource.org/nonfictionThis guide offers book, website, and curricular resources for teaching with nonfiction.• NY Times: Engaging Nonfiction: The Times, the Common Core and a Question for You(June 26, 2012)http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/engaging-nonfiction-the-times-the-commoncore-and-a-question-for-you/#more-112216Weaving the NYT into your classroom routine regularly…can introduce students to a hugerange of sophisticated examples of the kind of writing and multimedia they’ll need to meet thestandards.• EdWeek: Common Core—Preparing Globally Competent Citizens (01/27/2012)http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2012/01/the_common_core_state_standards.htmlThe adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts andmathematics in 45 states and the District of Columbia offers educators an unprecedentedopportunity to marry the skill development and acquisition of core content needed to developglobally competent citizens with the rigorous skills and core content needed to prepare allstudents for college and careers.*See page 44 for the EdSteps’ Global Competency Matrix, which details ways in whichstudents: 1) investigate the world, 2) recognize perspectives, 3) communicate ideas, and 4)take action.World Affairs Council Resource Packet: Pacific Science Center Presents—The Golden King and the Great Pharaoh: November 1, 201243