Edited by Yael Harlap Global Citizenship

Consider how you choose to draw boundaries between your personal and professional selves in the
classroom. Fostering global citizenship does not necessarily mean sharing everything about yourself
with your students, and all teachers draw their boundaries differently. At the same time, reflecting
on who your students know you to be will help you determine whether you are serving as a role
model as a global citizen.
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I don't think I've ever had to tell a student, "That's
an inappropriate project for a literature course."
-Margery Fee,
Professor, English

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Exercises
Think about your motivations for considering how to foster and model global citizenship through
your teaching. Try answering these questions:
1. What intrinsic factors motivated you to pick up this toolbook?
2. What extrinsic factors motivated you to pick up this toolbook?
Consider what ‘global citizenship’ means to you, and what makes you excited and apprehensive
about the project of fostering and modeling it through teaching. Try completing the following
sentences:
1. When I think, “I would like to foster and model global citizenship,” I feel excited because…
2. When I think, “I would like to foster and model global citizenship,” I feel apprehensive or
worried because…
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3. When I think, “I would like to foster and model global citizenship,” what I mean is that the
difference I would like to see is…