GCE’s approach toward creating curriculum places an emphasis on several key areas that are taught and reinforced throughout every GCE Learning Unit.  New GCE Learning Units are developed organically through inspiration from our students, their families, our partners, and our staff.  If you have ideas about curriculum, please let us know.  GCE’s key areas of emphasis fall under three crucial umbrellas of becoming a global citizen, each which is described in detail in GCE’s Curriculum Guidebook:

  1. Cultural Appreciation. Cultural appreciation is the life-blood of GCE.  Field Experience, getting out of the classroom and into the world, is an integral part of the GCE learning model, and it happens virtually EVERY week. And when we can’t get out, we bring the world IN through guest speakers, web-conferences, and surfing the digital universe.
  2. 21st Century Literacies. Executive Functioning and Critical Literacy are often left to the student to figure out.  Not with GCE. We believe that students should learn HOW to take and review notes, prepare meaningful questions for conferences with teachers, create schedules and study guides, and practice peer critique. Financial Literacy is part of our GCE philosophy. Students should develop a keen sense of how everyday decisions – exacerbated by our current economic climate – build lives of stability or debt. Digital Literacy (GCE-XL, GCE’s Online Learning Platform) extends well beyond the students ability to use digital technology. It involves learning how to make informed judgments when accessing largely unfiltered information and new comprehension strategies to process non-linear jumps in the information flow.
  3. Career Readiness. Corporate, Non-profit, Government, and Trade exposures are key to engaging students in the process of discovering their unique paths to building a life of value.  Over the course of four years, GCE students will examine organizations in order to understand why each exists, who it serves, how it makes money, who it employs, how one can become employable, what perks come with employment, how it pursues philanthropy, who to contact for information about the company and for exposure opportunities, and much more.

GCE’s Curriculum Guidebook itemizes the components of each of these key curriculum areas.  Please email us to request a copy or to ask questions about what these general categories look like in reality (there’s quite a bit of detail).