Global Competency Toolkit

These 3 lessons were developed during my online Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms (FTGC) course. During this course, we learned how to "globalize" our lessons, no matter what subject we teach. 

Inter-school Activity

During the FTGC course, teachers from different states were paired up to create and conduct a lesson with their students. The idea was to get us used to collaborating with teachers far away, and also to explore how we could get our students to collaborate. I was paired with an amazing science teacher in Arkansas, Matthew Holden, and together we decided to have our students look at global data related to cancer. Specifically, the activity asked the question: How do global risk factors (like lifestyle and environment) lead to these biological failures, and how do we see the impact in global data? 

This collaboration went incredibly well, for a number of reasons: 1) we were both flexible and came at it with a "try anything" attitude, 2) our students were game to try new things, and had a great time leaving messages for each other on Padlet and working together on Zoom (they even did a snake "show-and-tell" with our classroom snakes), 3) we designed the activity to be uncomplicated, leaving little room for catastrophe. 

The next time I do a long-distance collaboration, I want to build in even more Zoom time between our students. We only zoomed once, and I feel like our students were just starting to get to know each other. It would be nice to do multiple collaborations with the same class throughout the year. 

(Be sure to check out Padlet on the Digital Teaching Tools page)