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PD Resources

Here are some ideas to support learning, sharing, planning, and the development of staff community.

Beyond Critical Thinking

Generating an understanding of student and teacher experiences in a GC classroom in a math class

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

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.

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

TVDSB South project.mp4

How do your students recognize Global Competencies?

Staff Share Artifacts

Staff Build Competency-Focused Bulletin Boards

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