Participate and share: Poster 
Research shows that while Global Competency (global learning, multiculturalism, global citizenship...) is listed in many strategic plans and mission statements, most STEAM educators are not implementing this concept into their curriculum. The purpose of this presentation is to help educators embrace the concept of Global Competency and eliminate it's representation of an empty, overused buzzword. Through interview data, examples and stories of successful implementation methods for each STEAM subject have been collected. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of how Global Competency applies to their field and successful, content-specific implementation methods that can be used in their curriculum planning and daily teaching methods.
Elements of the poster presentation to be communicated as attendees approach:
Overview of the definition of Global Competency, discussion of closely related terms
Research-based importance of Global Competency in Education
How Global Competency relates to STEAM Education
Study Findings: Lack of implementation, integration, and standardization of Global Competency in STEAM
Study Findings: Successful implementation methods in curriculum planning and daily teaching practices (example: ethonomathematics, global PBL, exchanges)
Addressing potential challenges: "savior complex", lack of funding, lack of faculty / student diversity
Engagement: Specific methods and strategies presented based on the attendees' content area. Attendees can take home a discipline-specific handout that has implementation methods and resources listed.
Carter, A. (2020). In Search of the Ideal Tool for International School Teachers to Increase their Global Competency: An Action Research Analysis of the Global Competency Learning Continuum. Journal of Research in International Education, 19(1), 23–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475240920916045
Kinzie, J., Helms, R. M., & Cole, J. (2017). Assessing Global Learning. Liberal Education, 30–37.
Rodríguez-Nieto, C. A., & Alsina, Á. (2022). Networking Between Ethnomathematics, STEAM Education, and the Globalized Approach to Analyze Mathematical Connections in Daily Practices. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.29333/EJMSTE/11710
Rosa, M., & Orey, D. C. (2017). Polysemic interactions of ethnomathematics: an overview. ETD - Educação Temática Digital, 19(3), 589. https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v19i3.8648365
Schleicher, A. (2014). PISA 2018 Framework Plans: 38th meeting of the PISA Governing Board.
Vera Cruz, A. C., Madden, P. E., & Asante, C. K. (2018). Toward Cross-Cultural Curriculum Development: An Analysis of Science Education in the Philippines, Ghana, and the United States. In Intercultural Studies of Curriculum (pp. 37–57). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60897-6_3
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