intercultural collaboration program for students and teachers
The development of Global Competencies is a critical skill for todays’ students. Children are living in a world, a society, that is globalized, interconnected and interdependent. This program aims to produce interculturally competent global citizens who are capable of understanding and reconciling cultural diversity, utilizing knowledge and information, and working collaboratively with people in different cultures using different languages.
In order to accomplish this goal we will provide teachers in your country with opportunities to collaborate with teachers in other countries and cultures. This will involve the design and implementation of global, collaborative classroom projects for students, and will also involve opportunities for teachers to participate in virtual collaborations for professional development and curriculum design.
In order to accomplish this goal we will provide teachers in your country with opportunities to collaborate with teachers in other countries and cultures. This will involve the design and implementation of global, collaborative classroom projects for students, and will also involve opportunities for teachers to participate in virtual collaborations for professional development and curriculum design.
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1) Curriculum Design – Global, Collaborative Classroom Projects
As educators come to realize the full potential of using the global reaches of the Internet within our classrooms, we come to realize that we are able to build local to global, multicultural understandings of human experiences across and integrated among all content areas including literacy, social studies, science, math, languages, economics, history, politics, agriculture, vocational, arts, and service learning curricula.
It is important that their global collaborations engage students in addressing real world problems, questions that matter and issues important to humanity. As they get to know each other, learning with the world, not just about the world, they will develop important global competencies.
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2) Professional Development
A second component of the Intercultural Collaboration Program is that of virtual collaborations among teachers from many countries and cultures. We will provide a program designed to support teachers as they participate in professional development sharing lesson plan ideas, teaching strategies and/or their teaching viewpoints regarding intercultural understanding.
This virtual learning platform will also provide e-learning opportunities in the form of workshops, videos (translated or dubbed into the language of your country), lesson plan archives, collaborative lesson and curriculum planning portals, and live, online professional development in both English and the language of your country.
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