Greenfield High School

The Wisconsin Global Scholars Program (WGSP) is offered to graduating high school students who demonstrate a strong interest in global citizenship by successfully completing a global education curriculum and engaging in co-curricular activities and experiences that foster the development of global competencies. 

The Wisconsin Global Scholars Program supports student literacy as defined by the Common Core State Standards and provides a pathway for 21st Century Skills. 

WGSP:

• focuses on and validates global education learning opportunities.
• encourages students to enroll in and demonstrate success in classes with global content in the arts, sciences, and humanities.
• prepares globally competent students who are college, career, leadership, and life ready in Wisconsin and beyond.

The Need:

• In today’s global marketplace, it is in the long-term economic, social, and democratic interests of the United States, the State of Wisconsin, and local communities to educate a globally competent citizenry, by emphasizing the global character of disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies in the school curriculum and by encouraging and facilitating international connections in the community, state, and beyond.
• It is in the individual interest of every student to seek out and take advantage of global learning opportunities for reasons of career advancement, civic engagement, and personal development and enrichment.
• Schools currently offer a variety of classes with global elements, from world languages and social studies to arts and music, as well as the sciences. While the expansion of curriculum and course opportunities would be welcome and beneficial, schools can advance global education with existing resources and structures by cultivating school cultures that emphasize these opportunities and by engaging in ongoing efforts to ensure that students, parents, teachers, school administrators, school boards, and the general public fully recognize the value of global learning and its essential place in a well-rounded contemporary education. 

Global Scholars:

• are globally competent individuals who are aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world and how it works.
• can use the big ideas, methods, and languages that are central to any discipline (mathematics, literature, history, science, and the arts) to engage the pressing issues of our time.
• deploy and develop this expertise as they investigate such issues, recognizing multiple perspectives, communicating their views effectively, and taking action to improve conditions.

Requirements

Global Scholars develop global competence through the following program requirements:

• Four credits of sustained learning in a world language or evidence of language proficiency at or above Intermediate High on the ACTFL scale.
• Four credits of coursework designed to facilitate global learning. 
• Eight reflections on global learning and cultural literacy development through reading 4 or more books (fiction or non-fiction), and including up to 4 learning experiences through art, music, films, podcasts, and community-based cultural events.  
• Active participation/leadership in four, or more, school-based extracurricular and special events with a global focus.
• Twenty or more hours of a service-learning project related to a global issue.