1. The Global Workforce Project: Catalyst for Change
Eric Kaldor, PhD
Department of Sociology
SUNY College at Brockport

2. How can we transform the college curriculum to prepare our students to more effectively engage and live in a globalized world?
Involves changing… what we teach how we teach how we support and develop faculty how we motivate and reward faculty

3. The GWP as Catalyst
More than pre-packaged course content to substitute for existing curriculum The GWP can be a catalyst to create an intellectual community around change Instead of a solution, the GWP presents a problem with parameters begging for local definition Best solutions emerge from an intellectual community working in collaboration

4. GWP Raw Ingredients Existing Gen Ed Courses Modules
Prior Syllabi, Readings, Learning Outcomes
Modules
Learning Outcomes
Lesson Plans
Readings
Activities
Three Global Workforce Skills
Experienced Faculty
Academic Expertise
Understanding of Their Students

5. Global Workforce Skills
Holistic Thinking
Using multiple perspectives
Looking at wider context
Thinking about interdependence
Cross-Cultural Communications
Complexity of cultural difference
Recognizing ethnocentrism
Signs of misunderstanding
Culture general/specific competence

6. Global Workforce Skills
3. Technology Skills
Using various information technologies to:
Communicate
Collaborate
Backup
Collect data
Analyze
Illustrate/chart
Film/Produce
Present

7. The threshold to cross…
Problems:
Need to learn where your students stand
Need to actively develop these skills with instructional time, exercises, and major assignments
Need to develop teamwork and collaboration skills
Need a way for students to make these durable
Solution: Faculty Collaboration

8. Brainstorming Your Own Course
In pairs or threes
Choose a general education course
Choose one of the three GWP skills
What does it mean to you? What can someone do that has this skill or attitude?
How could students develop/demonstrate this skill in the course? Think of an assignment or activity
What would it take to prepare your students for the assignment/activity?

9. Brainstorming Your Own Course
Add another learning outcome.
Define what it means to you? What can someone do that has this skill or attitude?
Can you elaborate the original assignment or activity to include a second?
What would it take to prepare your students for the assignment/activity?