Thursday, July 08, 2010

Going Global: Preparing students to be Citizens of the World

Speaker: Lucy Gray

Video: "Where the Hell is Matt?" Matt dances all over the world - very uplifting.

I like the focus on the word citizen, what being a good citizen means, locally and globally.

Travel and immersion in other cultures make world citizens. Maybe our sabbatical will inspire travel and awareness and lead to these things with our students later in their lives.

She says it's important to model being a world citizen/traveler, which is exactly what we'll be doing!

There are a lot of global projects where students reach out and interact world-wide. Must do more of this, Jim.

Rock Our World - each school does the next track in a series of songs.

ThinkQuest - think.com - reach out to other students with projects