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Here are some ideas to support learning, sharing, planning, and the development of staff community.
Here are some ideas to support learning, sharing, planning, and the development of staff community.
Activities:
Activities:
Visual School Goals
- Create a Padlet for staff to visually share their learning with connections to the Global Competencies
- Use FlipGrid for staff to share their connections to Global Competencies through a video wall ex. Sutton
- Share on Twitter #TVDSBGlobal
- Visually have your goal available for students and staff to easily access throughout the building
Social Media Sharing
- Have your staff travel within the school in groups to identify areas where the global competencies are addressed and/or
- Amazing Race through the Competencies
- Take a picture at each location, upload to Twitter and briefly describe connections to the competencies
- Use #TVDSBGlobal to share within the Board and beyond
"Getting to Know a Partner"
- Have staff sit as a department. Individually, have them determine which of the Global Competencies is their area of greatest strength. Then, have them work with a partner and see which Global Competency the partner sees as their strength. Examine the answers as a department (or inter-departmentally) to develop or define teams/groups
Guest Experts and Panels
- Provide a snapshot of the benefits of Global Competencies in the community
Name Tag
- "Hello I am interested in..." rather than "Hello my name is..." to establish collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches
- Staff then circulate the room to identify colleagues with similar interests
- The ensuing conversation will be a brainstorming session to identify possible collaborations between the teachers/departments
Competency Teams
- Collaborate in competency interdisciplinary teams for PD rather than departments
Connections
- Share how teachers have employed the Global Competencies. Highlight the elements Rethink Secondary and make notes about connections to classes.
- Make connections to Growing Success and the Global Competencies
- Look for common language, especially verbs, throughout curriculum documents to create connections for assessment
- Make language visible on projects
Artifact
- Staff share artifacts or samples of ways they have incorporated a global competency within a project
- Make connections to artefacts of others and adapt them for your own subject area, OR make interdisciplinary connections to incorporate your subjects and projects together
Global Stations
- Solve a problem by circulating through Global Competencies Stations to experience different approaches to learning and teaching.
Probing Questions:
Probing Questions:
- Why are the Global Competencies important for student learning?
- Share the video The Future of Work and discuss how this makes you reflect on your on teaching practice. How are we preparing students today and for the future?
- What would an ideal learning environment look like? How are you creating this?
- How can we highlight what is already being done in classrooms with the Global Competencies?
- What are the next steps to enhance and track the Global Competencies?
- How are you challenging yourself to learn and try something new?
- How are assessments designed to promote learning rather than just a measurement tool?
Padlet Sample
FlipGrid Sharing
Visible School Goal
Community Connections
Team- Building
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How do your students recognize Global Competencies?
Staff Share Artifacts
Staff Build Competency-Focused Bulletin Boards