10 minutes of fame
Global Learner – The Global Learner program is designed to prepare students for the future, and to bring students, staff and parents together through collaboration and responsive partnerships. We have chosen three school-wide themes, addressing learning outcomes at all grade levels, across subjects, and aimed at developing global awareness. Under the umbrella themes of Children of the World, World Leaders & Leadership, and Global Stewardship, students will take part in focused inquiries which include progressive learning outcomes focusing on 21st century skills.
Collaboration based on three themes – Children of the World- Leaders and Leadership – Global Stewardship- Each term our staff choose 3- or 4 consecutive Wednesday afternoons to offer workshops to students.
• Divided into 2 multi-age groupings Primary – grades 1-3 and Intermediate 4-7 . Kindergarten students join the primary groups for term 3 only.
• Teachers of a variety of workshops for students to choose from.
• Students watch a video presentation on their classroom smart board for the workshops and select their top 2 choices.
• Teachers distribute students to workshops noting learning needs
• We display the product of our workshops throughout the year .
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Global Learner Workshops
Over the past decade, we have seen an unprecedented rise in the amount of information available to people and to the interconnectedness of people around the world. To continue to offer a rich diversity of engaging programs to students, we, too need to grow. Students need to not only be competent in reading, writing and mathematics, but also 21st century skills . They must be inspired to navigate the sea of information through speaking, writing, multi-media, and creativity. Students need to become more globally aware and learn to collaborate with people face-to-face and around the world. A well-rounded education is no longer just the three R’s; success in the future will require digital-age literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication and high productivity. Are we ready?
Global Learner Workshop Presentations
I approached my principal to ask for any pictures or videos that could help you to understand some of the work that is being done in our school by our amazing creative teachers. In doing so, both she and I realized that we haven’t thought about creating a virtual window for our workshops. There were only a few pictures available to show you what the multi-age collaboration looks like. I am going to spearhead a change to publish the work we are doing and possibly archive the lessons for our workshops.
Instead I would like for you to see a video of the work a couple of our teachers did with the Environmental Club. The teacher collaboration is between a grade 1 teacher with a wealth of expertise and a grade 7 teacher who is tech savvy and extremely creative. Together they worked with students to research, create and communicate with the entire school via YouTube and Smart Boards a project that all students could participate in. They utilized their research to create a video which promoted writing, music and a message to engage students to observe their back yard environment. Enjoy Birds in the Hood
Very exciting to learn about. So sad about no archives.
This is fantastic! We might need to borrow you for future pro-d!
Janet, this was a wonderful presentation. It is moving to hear personal stories of transformation. Your story of the student helping another student in a foot race on sports day was especially touching. I can’t remember if you shared that in the presentation or after class, but these are qualities and relationships that we want to foster in our educational institutions. I am sorry to hear you did not collect documentation of your projects in past years. Ah well. One great way to get the documentary evidence happening is to design it into the learning processes, so that students are capturing ‘evidence of activity’ as part of the learning process. These artifacts can be used as jumping off points for further writing, reflection or project development as well as providing a multi-media archive of learning.