Presentation Global perspective Project
- 2. IDEA: Global Perspectives encourages awareness of global problems and offers opportunities to explore possible solutions through cooperation and collaboration. The course aims at Allowing diversity in thinking rather than having identical matter of opening minds and human thought to the great complexity of the world opening hearts to the diversity of human experience and feeling
- 3. WHY THIS PROJECT? Help students to deal with challenges in an interconnected and information-heavy world, gain a sense of their own active place in the world, to cope with changes that will impact on their life chances and life choices.
- 4. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can we make students part of thinking community for solutions of Global issues and make connections at individual level?
- 5. PROJECT OVERVIEW Students will explore stimulating topics that have global significance. They will assess information critically and explore lines of reasoning. They will learn to collaborate with others from another culture, community or country, directing much of their own learning and developing an independence of thought.
- 6. SELECTED GLOBAL ISSUES Child Labour Ageing Saltpan Workers Public Transport HIV Aids Women Safety Essential Question: How can we make students part of thinking community for solutions of Global issues and make connections at individual level? Group size 4-5 students
- 7. ASSESSMENT: GROUP ELEMENT The Group Project is made up of two parts: a group element and an individual element. For the group element, each group must produce a collective piece of work that includes: Students work together to write a project plan, carry out research and produce an outcome. They are required to show evidence that they have collaborated with others from another culture, community or country.
- 8. ASSESSMENT: INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT For the individual element, each student must produce their own evaluation of the Group Project. Students must submit an individual evaluation of: the project plan and process the project outcome their own contribution to and learning from the project, including cross-cultural collaboration The evaluation can consist of multimedia communication and text or text only.
- 9. CHOSEN OUTCOMES Child Labour Documentary Ageing Video Saltpan Workers Website Public Transport Doc HIV Aids Book Life-Story of HIV Patients Women Safety Posters Outcomes