#Decarbonize: A Global Student Empowerment Project

Purpose & objective

As the 21st Century presents an increasingly complex and interconnected world, human progress demands intensive global knowledge and skills, particularly of our young leaders and innovators. Teachers can foster a sense of global citizenship and intercultural skills through global project-based learning and collaborative projects that allow students to resolve global problems and communicate across cultural, political, and geographic boundaries. With e-technologies teachers can seamlessly integrate global themes and perspectives across all grade levels and academic disciplines.

In this workshop, participants will explore global educational tools offered by TakingITGlobal through an authentic global inquiry experience. By the end of the workshop, teachers would not only have explored the tools and resources available on the TIGed website but also have developed a global project for their classroom. The workshop will recreate several elements of authentic project-based learning for participants, putting teachers into a true project-based learning environment while simultaneously offering them strategies, pedagogies, tools, and resources for their own global projects. Participants will participate in activities that allow them to construct one project for their classrooms during the session and gain valuable professional feedback from other educators.

Outline

1. Entry event (video and/or student presentation) 20 mins
2. Introduction of the driving question, define "need to knows" 10 mins
3. Beginning with the end in mind: defining the global graduate 10 mins
4. Pedagogical introduction to the main tenets of global education, deciding on the global competencies participants wish to teach 10 mins
5. Basics of project-based learning 10 mins
6. Introduction to TakingITGlboal educational tools & Decarbonize project 10 mins
7. Activity in broader forums: Find 3-5 tools or resources on TakingITGlobal which you could use in your classroom, then post on the discussion board in the virtual classroom. 15 mins; will require an additional 15 mins for TIGed and virtual classroom registration before activity. 30 mins total.
8. Activity in a virtual classroom: Participants explore activities and posts in the Decarbonize virtual classroom 20 mins
9. Exploration of what makes a good driving project-based question 10 mins
10. Define skills and engagement for participants - create an activity: 20 mins
· Project idea and title
· Driving question and potential virtual PBL activity to explore
· Global competencies to be taught and assessed through the project
· Academic standards/content benchmarks to be taught and assessed through the project
· TIG and other online tools or global partners to be employed during the project
11. Gallery walk of project participants' proposals to gather feedback (virtual or physical) 15 mins
12. Closing 5 mins

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