Category: SDGs
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Developing Transferable Skills in English Class: A Comprehensive Guide
Today we want to talk about a crucial topic that concerns us all, the development of transferable skills in the classroom. In today’s world, students need to be equipped with the necessary skills to navigate and shape their future successfully. That’s why it is essential to prepare students with transferable skills and a desire for…
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Learning About Ourselves and the World
The participants of the global collaborative project, Single Voices, Global Choices, have been immersed in a multitude of learning experiences focused on the many international days of recognition. October and November have offered rich experiences to learn about ourselves and others ranging from investigating our own mental health and wellness to understanding the issues faced…
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Sharing Plenty
The Single Voices, Global Choices project officially launched at the beginning of September and teachers around the globe have been working with their students exploring topics around one or more international event/events created by the United Nations and other organizations. September saw the International Day of Charity, International Literacy Day, World Suicide Prevention Day, the…
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Single Voices, Global Choices Project
Planning is well underway for Single Voices, Global Choices having begun a few months ago. The project, already boasting 107 teachers from 95 schools in 46 countries, plans on centering social emotional learning and connections-based learning by focusing on international events created by the United Nations and other organizations and by analyzing current events. International…
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Ready, Set, Climate Action
The fall of 2017 was a turning point for me. It marked my official deep dive into global projects… and I was terrified! All the ‘what if’ scary scenarios popped in my head like ‘what if my students hate it?’, or ‘what if I bomb this?’ Fortunately, those scary scenarios were just that… an overactive…
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I is for Imagine
A humble imitation of Margaret Atwood’s reveries on a piece of bread. Imagine a classroom. You don’t have to imagine it, you’re in it right now. The colorful poster on the wall with the sparkly stars that says “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars” stares back at you…
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#OneWord2019
I have been considering what word would best encapsulate my goals for 2019 for quite some time now, and one evening during Christmas break, as I sat contentedly knitting a shawl from Norwegian yarn brought to me as a gift from a friend, I had an epiphany. My word was right in front of me…
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Best of 2018
It’s December: a time to reflect upon the year that is swiftly coming to a close, and a time to look forward to what the new year will bring. This past year has held a lot of new experiences for me. I presented at a conference for the first time, I hosted a #MSFTEduChat Tweetmeet,…
