Welcome to ‘Teaching without borders’!
Dear teachers and students,
This website was created to help you gain intercultural communicative competences. For this reason, you are welcome to join our special project: A telecollaboration with German and Israeli students.
And what is that? Basically this means that you will build mixed groups of German and Israeli students to work together. We want to give you the opportunity to experience self created tasks based on an intercultural and collaborative way of working. We will connect two different countries, cultures and lifestyles that will give students the opportunity to find new friends from all over the world while acquiring new knowledge.
Each task focuses on a combination of skills of language learning that will improve students' language acquisition by encouraging them to openly communicate with other non-native English speakers through a variety of digital tools. In addition, by bringing together English language learners from geographically remote places around the world, students will learn about different cultures while using their writing, reading and speaking skills.
Our project includes two tasks.
The first one is an Escape Room created for 7th-8th grade intermediate level English students. In order to escape the room, students must interact and collaborate with their international partners. Reading, writing and speaking skills are the required language competences for this task.
The second task consists of German Fairy Tales and Israeli children stories. This task was created for 10th-11th grade high level English students. Students from each country will be paired up and will get one story, either German or Israeli. The tales have to be explained to each other using the English language with the purpose of rewriting the story as a team using an interactive digital tool. For this task speaking and writing skills are required.
Our goal is to encourage students and teachers from different countries to exchange values by talking and interacting with each other. The intercultural communicative competence will be improved through the exchange of German and Israeli values. Both students, and teachers will benefit from this cultural interaction.
This is a great opportunity for both sides and you are warmly invited to experience it by yourself.
Have a great time while collaborating!
Your Teaching without Borders Team
To get to know us click the link: https://de.padlet.com/97nora/civ47xekbvyizeks