Goals of the project

Internationalization: Create authentic opportunities for students to use the English language, 

Cultural awareness; Being able to think from different perspectives

Future thinking: understanding the SDG’s and why it’s important we act

About the project

You will be partnered with a school. This could be a school within the Brainport Region or beyond. Basically, you will complete 2 lessons a week (you can decide together with your partner school of the timeframe). One lesson will be an offline, preparation lesson. Students will be asking and answering questions and preparing information ready to share in the next lesson. The other lesson will be online where you will meet, talk and share with your partner school. The lessons are designed to be approximately an hour for both parts of the lesson. However, you can decide together with your partner school the length of time needed.

During the first lesson your students will have to guess which school is your partner school. You will do this by following a routine called mystery classroom. The aim of this lesson is to find out as much information about the school as possible. 

You will then progress through a series of lessons where you will find out about the sustainable development goals and the challenges you have at your schools. You will decide on a big question and design a solution for the challenge. After that you will make the solution and create an exhibition to display and share your learning journey with your community and your partner school.

You will be given access to a series of 8 lesson plans. Each of which have a presentation to use with your class and additional resources. Please adapt these resources to make them suitable for your students, environment and community. Please make sure you do this in collaboration with your partner school so you both have the same expectations from each lesson.

There is also a rubric document of the competencies students will be developing while working on this project. Feel free to use these as you wish. This could be completely left out, just mentioning them or having them self assess where they think they are on the rubric. This really helps with accepting feedback especially if students can justify why they think they are at a certain level. 

It is wise to arrange a planning meeting together with your partner school (Teacher) before you start the project so that you can work together and create a timeline of meetings, lessons and events. It’s also fun to find out who you will be working with! You can choose how you wish to work together with your partner school. Some lessons you may wish to work as a whole class. Other lessons, your students will benefit more from conversing in small break out rooms. This is up to you - decide together with your partner teacher. Remember you can decide which language you do the preparation lesson in but the online part should be in English. 

One aim of global missions is empowering students and teachers to take ownership of their teaching and learning. Please make changes to these lessons to make them more appropriate and suitable to your situation and schedules.

Looking forward to seeing all of the amazing projects!