As part of my Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms coursework, I developed a series of artifacts for use in my classroom and professional community. View these resources below!

Using activities from PZ Thinking Routines, I created a bookmark for students to use during independent reading. The bookmark contains 4 of the Thinking Routines established by Project Zero: the 3 Whys, the 4 Cs, Compass Points, and Word-Phrase-Sentence (what I call “golden moments”). These represent four of my favorite frameworks from Project Zero and four of the routines that I find most applicable to fictional texts. I designed the bookmark to keep these protocols front-of-mind for my students as we undertake independent reading a few times a week. Students then use these thinking routines to write a journal entry that demonstrates their creative and critical thinking.

Last year, my goal was to re-design my unit on The Odyssey for my ninth grade students. I wanted to show them hero stories from other cultures and ask them to consider what elements make someone a hero across cultures. Together, we studied the adventures from The Odyssey (books 9-12) and two other texts; then, students chose their own. In addition to a creative project, students wrote their first full-length essay on the qualities of a hero.

Coming soon: a ready-to-share slideshow defining Global Competence and suggesting ways educators can bring global education into their classrooms.

Coming soon: infographics connecting my school’s Portrait of a Graduate to elements of global competency.