STLinATL

The imperative and urgency to educate young people with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required to thrive in an interconnected world and to take on inherently interconnected challenges has perhaps never been more apparent. No matter the grade level or subject area, educators can teach students global competencies like open-mindedness, intercultural communication, creative problem-solving, and cultural humility through focused curriculum design and key global pedagogies. Join this session to hear about numerous models of assignments, projects, units, courses from across GEBG’s nearly 400 member schools and to workshop your own curriculum utilizing GEBG’s Curriculum Toolkit and other curated resources.

Facilitated by Chad Detloff, GEBG Director of Professional Learning and Curriculum

How can students be in the driving seat of their learning experience? And why should they be? In times of generative AI, machine learning, and easy access to knowledge, students cannot be passive recipients of that knowledge anymore. We need to meet the students where they are, not where we think they should be. That means students should be encouraged to be creators of knowledge and to transfer their knowledge to novel situations. As they design their learning experience, they become problem-solvers and critical thinkers, content experts, and collaborators. Students grapple with authentic, non-linear, interdisciplinary work that requires a focus on skills over content. Our student-directed projects are at the core of our student-driven learning approach. Students are active explorers driven to answer an essential question they created. Through this non-linear, interdisciplinary inquiry, students engage in deeper learning as they construct, transfer, and make sense of their knowledge. An approach that promotes student agency, choice, and investigation. Come and hear about our journey to make this change happen, the highs, the not-so-highs, the need to let go of some of
our beliefs about how schools should work and students should learn.

Engaging in giving or receiving feedback is fraught with challenges like defensiveness, relationship tension, and lots of other big feelings. Participants will learn how to understand and approach feedback with more curiosity and grace.