Global+Awareness

__Description__ This assignment was a collaborative project with a partner in which we needed to design a lesson plan and activity that focused on Global Awareness. This project was done in two parts. The first part was to design the lesson plan with the Global Awareness activity and the second part of the assignment was to write a two page description of the lesson plan and activity describing more in detail the purpose of the lesson and why it will be beneficial to students in promoting global awareness. Some examples of activities we needed to come up with required us to use the following global awareness websites such as ePals.com, Globalschoolnet.org, iLearn.com and incorporate such sites into our lesson. Our lesson had to primarily be focused on the grade level in which we taught. We were also required to use the lesson plan template found on Blackboard under the assignment submission page.

__ Process __ To complete this assignment my partner and I used an existing lesson that I currently do with my high school students. My students were required to use the following website [|www.executiveplanet.com]  and pick two countries to compare business practices and business etiquette. They were required to create a PowerPoint presentation regarding their findings. My partner and I decided to take this project a step farther and actually have students communicate with other students in other countries using Skype. Students and teachers were to be aware of business practices and business etiquette and will be graded on their interactions with the students of the other countries. We followed the lesson plan format and created a lesson that involved the above mentioned activity and then wrote the description paper for the assignment. __

Reflection __

Global Awareness is something that I already teach with my current classes. My original project idea was a good start but I was glad that I could collaborate with one of my peers and make the activity better. I think it is important to teach Global Awareness to students since we do live in the age of technology and it seems we will communicate more and more using computers and programs like Skype. We need to be aware of other countries practices in order to do business with them or just interact with them productively. I really liked this assignment and the opportunity to work with a partner. We worked together well and we both had a good sense of how to complete this assignment and create an activity that could actually be done in the classroom. As a matter of fact I may extend my current project to include the ideas that we came up with for this assignment in my classroom next year. I think this would be a great addition to my current curriculum.

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