Building Learning Communities 2013

The advancement of technologies has made it common to share our daily life and work together with others across the globe. Such an interconnected society requires schools to prepare our kids to be competent in cross-cultural communications and global working environments.

Then, what should the school activities look like?  Should we design additional curricula focusing on global issues and or cultural information? What are the effective ways to transform teaching and learning methods to fulfill the requirement?

In exploring the answers through this session, participants will:

• Understand how regular classroom activities could be blended with cross-culturally situated virtual learning environments.
• Be introduced to one of the best practices in transforming local school curricula to be interculturally rich and globally collaborative.  
• Ascertain the roles of class teachers, resource teachers, administrators and district offices in internationalizing school activities.
• Discover the implications for adopting Common Core curriculum and assessment.