Portrait of a Graduate

Global Communicator

PoG Global Communicator INSTRUCTIONAL BLUEPRINT.pdf

Students Will...

Students will use appropriate oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills to maximize their message to various audiences.
Students will use communication skills to connect, relate, share, and mobilize their ideas across geographic, political, economic, social, and cultural divide

Ideas

Oral:

-presentation skills

-audience awareness

-thought development

Written:

-outlining

-audience awareness

-thought development

Interpersonal:

-cultural understanding and sensitivity

-listening

-phone/digital

-nonverbal cues

-audience awareness

Digital Citizenship

District Examples

Elementary students write stories in Spanish to share with others.

Students researched a topic they were passionate about and collaborated with a person from a Spanish speaking country to larn more about the topic. They presented their topics in Spanish and had to communicate well enough with their collaborators and classmates to understand each other. This is also a great example of Curious and Critical Thinking.

3rd graders exchanged letters and ideas with students from a school affected by a hurricane.

Resources

ePals - find connections to other classrooms across the country and sign up to participate in challenges
WritingFix - teaching resources for K-12
Stories of a Lifetime - connect with others from around the world, and share your stories. Choose a country and hear their folktales or stories and you can add your own!

PenPal SchoolsPenPal Schools connects students from 150 countries through project based learning. Students create projects about topics ranging from human rights and environmental sustainability to robotics and literature with global PenPals.

How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student RelationshipsDialogue journals are a powerful tool for building trust with your students. Learn how they work.

Be Internet AwesomeBe Internet Awesome is a multifaceted program that includes a fun and free web-based game called Interland and an educational curriculum to teach kids how to be safe and responsible explorers of the online world.

The Big List of Class Discussion StrategiesHere they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.

13 Strategies to Improve Classroom Discussions (& Anchor Charts!)These 13 teacher and expert-tested strategies (plus 10 anchor charts) will strengthen your students' ability to find and use evidence from any text.

Students Sitting Around Too Much? Try Chat Stations.Your new favorite teaching strategy: This pared-down version of learning stations keeps the movement, interactivity and variety while minimizing the prep work.

Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE MethodWant your students to have rich, complex conversations about the texts they read? This method leads to the kinds of classroom discussions you thought only happened in college.

Socratic SeminarHave students facilitate a discussion in order to work together toward a shared understanding of a text.

Students RebuildEngage the whole student, help change the whole world.

Scope & Sequence: Common Sense K-12 Digital Citizenship CurriculumCommon Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

8 Methods for Effectively Improving Student Communication SkillsIf you're looking for the best ways for improving student communication skills, look no further than the 8 simple strategies we have here.

Global Collaboration Week - HomeStudents, teachers, and organizations will celebrate global collaboration from September 17- September 21, 2018! On this day (and beyond), experienced global educators and professionals will host...

The Global Read AloudOne Book to Connect the World

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