For our final assignment in TE 867, we were tasked to design a class activity or project that helps students "cultivate their global citizenship". For this project, I chose to create a project for my 11th grade World History class. I envision this project taking place towards the end of the school year in order to summarize and synthesize many of the topics we discussed throughout the course. Below is the documentation for the project:World History - Global Citizen Project
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Hi Lauren,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your work on this activity as well as what you've done in this entire course. It's been so cool to work with you. You bring so much to the table (and certainly would make a great doctoral student in education if that is ever something that would interest you). Oxford is really lucky to have you!
I love the opportunity that the world history sequence in Michigan affords teachers to do this type of project at the end of the course. In my experience, far too few teachers really take good advantage of this. I'm thrilled that you are doing this.
Like a lot of people, I've been thinking and aching so much about what has been happening at our borders, as the new policy of separating parents and children has evolved. The more I learned, the more I both understood about why this was happening and became enraged at the incompetence and hard-heartedness shown by the people who designed this policy.
Anyway, it makes me think about the opportunity you are affording students to do a true deep dive on a contemporary issue like this. Especially at the high school level, it's important to move beyond the CNN 10 approach and start to really take advantage of the great journalistic writing and podcasting that is out there. I hope you will be the person to introduce a lot of kids to those great resources (though it will take a lot of work on your part to do this--make sure to recruit parents and others to suggest resources to kids).
If I were going to do the border issue, I think it would be cool to not only link to a world history concept (like migration), but to think about the historical events that shaped this issue--to really think about long-term causality. Columbus? The Mexican-American War? NAFTA? The movement of the drug cartels from Colombia to Mexico? You probably didn't study any of this apart from Columbus. So, if you were to push students to make connections not only to concepts but to events, it would again require students to think outside the box and seek help from lots of others. That said, I think it's really important to see history from the long duration.
I've loved working with you! I wish you continued best of luck in the future. I hope you will be in touch if I can ever be of any assistance to you.
Kyle