This week we enjoyed learning from our incredible students themselves. Topics for our Global Education inquiries ranged from Sports in Schools to Influential Leaders in Education to Schools with Unique Architecture. I learned A LOT and students enjoyed the opportunity to become teachers (while practising their oral language presentation skills!). They also used several media literacy conventions to create engaging & effective slides that conveyed a clear message to their audience.
Some of our specific goals with these presentations: -phrase main ideas in our own words (no 'copying and pasting') -cite our sources -add captions to images -put capital letters on titles You *may* find me moving to Bali to teach at this school... isn't it amazing? I'd take all my incredible students with me, of course...
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We've had a lot of fun these past two weeks rotating through our Global Education literacy centers. Students have had an opportunity to try a different center each day, which requires building on learning that we've already started (ex. reading infographics on education and writing down interesting points, reading an article about a school and asking deep questions with a partner, continuing their group inquiry, adding a Kazakhstan page to their Global Education booklet, learning about the Finland Education system and comparing it to Canada's). Truthfully, I don't have a lot of photos of the centers, as I use this opportunity to read with students. I've now had another cycle through of reading with your incredible kids in a very small group setting (usually a 1:2 ratio). I'm really learning more about each of their strengths and next steps, and teaching lots of strategies as we go along. I'm already amazed at how much these kiddos are learning and the new strategies they are implementing to improve their reading even further. Wow! If we're here already after three and a half months, imagine what we can do in the next six :-)
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