Equipping teachers with globally competent practices: A mixed methods study on integrating global competence and teacher education.

Education leaders recommend that global competence-global citizenship mentality and knowledge development for global participation-be incorporated into school curricula. This mixed methods study examined teacher's perceptions and self-reported practices of globally competent teaching. Data was collected from teachers taking a graduate education course infused with global learning.

Operationalizing and validating disciplinary literacy in secondary education.

The goal of this study was to define the construct and establish the validity of disciplinary literacy, which has recently gained attention from the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers in Common Core State Standards for English language arts & literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects [PDF]. Authors, Washington, DC, 2010). After defining disciplinary literacy in the four core disciplines of English language arts, science, history and social studies, and mathematics, scales were developed and administered to a snowball sample of professionals nationwide, with 857 respondents.