global learning in expanded learning time
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Global Learning for Educators webinars are offered free twice monthly, September 2012 - May 2013. Please visit http://asiasociety.org/webinars for details and registration. Global learning calls for a new approach beyond traditional school-community partnerships. It requires that students not only learn about other countries and cultures, but also apply their learning to complex local and global issues. As districts, schools, and educators strive to connect learning in and out of school, innovative models are emerging that redesign partnerships, staffing, time, curriculum, and use of technology. Learn about the framework and get a series of tools for creating expanded learning programs that bolster students’ global competence and academic success through project-based learning, service learning projects, internships, and other learning experiences outside of school hours and walls. Alexis Menten and Elizabeth Colby present.TRANSCRIPT
China and GlobalizationChina and Globalization
Students as Linguists and Diplomats:
Eight Principles for Creative World Languages Teaching
Open Up a World of Opportunities:
Global Learning in Expanded Learning Time
Open Up a World of Opportunities:
Global Learning in Expanded Learning Time
Open Up a World of Opportunities:
Global Learning in Expanded Learning Time
Open Up a World of Opportunity: Global Learning in Expanded Learning Time
Webinar
March 14, 2013
Alexis Menten, Asia SocietyElizabeth Colby, Newfound Area School District
Goals for the Webinar• Define expanded learning and explore emerging models
• Identify policies and practices that support credit-bearing expanded learning opportunities (ELOs), including the connection to global competence
• Provide examples of what global learning ELOs look like in practice through a pilot program in New Hampshire
• Share tools and templates that will help you to get started at your school or afterschool site
Defining Expanded Learning
Emerging Models of Expanded Learning1. Extended school day/year that increases time
for learning
2. Expanded school day/year that includes community partners and hands-on learning experiences
3. Expanded/extended learning opportunities that are based on competencies and award credit based on proficiency
Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) and
Global Competence
What Is Competency-Based Education?
• Students advance upon achieving mastery.• Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable
learning objectives that empower students.• Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning
experience for students.• Students receive timely, differentiated support based on
their individual learning needs.• Learning outcomes emphasize competencies that include
application and creation of knowledge, along with the development of important skills and dispositions.
CCSSO, iNACOL, and MetisNet: https://sites.google.com/site/competencybasedpathways/home
Competencies vs. Standards
• Standards are outcomes (the what – knowledge and skills)
• Competencies are behaviors (the how – habits and dispositions)
Global Competence: Common Core…and More
• Common Core State Standards are not the only outcomes that students need to master to be successful in college, career, and life in the global 21st century
• 21st century skills or deeper learning skills like communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity are equally important
• Through global competence, students acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and dispositions in the CCSS through hands-on and real-world projects
What Is Global Competence?
http://asiasociety.org/files/book-globalcompetence.pdf
Possession of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to act creatively on issues of global significance.
Globally competent young people:• Investigate the World• Recognize Perspectives• Communicate Ideas• Take Action
What Is Competency-Based Education?
• Students advance upon achieving mastery.• Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable
learning objectives that empower students.• Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning
experience for students.• Students receive timely, differentiated support based on
their individual learning needs.• Learning outcomes emphasize competencies that include
application and creation of knowledge, along with the development of important skills and dispositions.
CCSSO, iNACOL, and MetisNet: https://sites.google.com/site/competencybasedpathways/home
N.H.A New Theory of Action
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If we believe that all students must be college- and career- ready... Then our system must
advance students as they demonstrate mastery of content, skills and dispositions…
Which requires a comprehensive system of educator and school supports.
http://www.education.nh.gov/
Competency-Based Education in New Hampshire
• The Minimum Standards for School Approval state that local districts must have a competency assessment process and defined course level competencies in place for all public high schools.
• Credit toward graduation is to be awarded based on student demonstration of mastery of these course level competencies.
• Local districts must develop a plan and method of assessing course level competencies which is supported by a policy that will include the implementation of the standards.
• It is expected that the plan and method will be regularly reviewed and evaluated for effectiveness.
Extended/Expanded Learning Opportunities in
New HampshireInvigorating: Choice / Creativity
Alignments: w/ Highly Qualified Teacher w/ Community Partner w/ NH State Competencies/Common
Core w/ Assessment Criteria
Support: Facilities, Time, Empathy
Vision of NH ELO Initiative
Expand traditional high school classroom options
Create rigorous, relevant and personalized learning experiences – Real World for all students
Grant credit based on demonstration of mastery of course competencies
Primary acquisition of knowledge and skills through instruction or study outside of the traditional classroom methodology
• Independent study• Private instruction• Performing groups• Internships• Community service• Apprenticeships• Online courses
Extended Learning Opportunity (E.L.O.)
Newfound’s ELO Planning Chart
Student(s)
ELO Coordinat
or
Community
Partner
Highly Qualified Teacher
Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) and
Global Competence in Action
NRHS Partnership with the Asia Society
Goal: Expand ELOs and embed competency-based approaches towards global competence in the afterschool 21st Century Community Learning Center program
• Alignment of course competencies and global competencies
• Training on student voice and choice, and facilitative teaching/leading methods
Aligning Competencies
Knowledge(content areas)
Skills(ELO)
Dispositions(global
competence)
Aligning Competencies
21CCLC International ClubTarget Competencies:
• NRHS competency: The student artist will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
• Global competency: Students will recognize that people from diverse backgrounds perceive information differently, even when receiving the same information.
Arts Project Idea: Global Art Exchange “We can set up galleries where students from other countries send art pieces, and we send our art back to them. By exchanging art, we will be able to express ourselves and understand each other better. Art is an immediate way to understand aspects of culture.”
Student Voice and Facilitative Methods
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China and GlobalizationChina and Globalization
Students as Linguists and Diplomats:
Eight Principles for Creative World Languages Teaching
Open Up a World of Opportunities:
Global Learning in Expanded Learning Time
Open Up a World of Opportunities:
Global Learning in Expanded Learning Time