Collaboration

GLOBALIZATION AND PROFESSIONAL CHANGE

COLLABORATION ACROSS BORDERSCOURSE 26.02.2013

Reflection

· What is an international collaborative project?

- Working together across borders.

- People from different cultures working together on a common project.

- Two or more different cultures working together.

- Communication.

· What do you think then you hear the word internalization?

- Different countries coming together.

- Different cultures opening up to each other.

- Getting to understand each other, due to the culture difference.

- Accept and understand that people are different.

- Influences.

· Talk to your neighbor and write down all the keywords you come to think of.

o Acceptance

o Tolerance

o Knowledge

o Difference

o Sameness

o Communication

o Cooperation

o Collaboration

o Growth



International focus in subject teaching


· Internationalization – new contents.

· The international dimension is an interdisciplinary dimension in the Danish public schools meaning that it must be a part of every subject and must be included in all subjects when relevant.

· During the students’ school time they must be involved in at least one international collaborative project.

· How is this dimension taken into the curriculum in your countries?

Planning an international collaborative project.

· Make sure that the project can be answered by these words:
What – why – how – who – when – where

International collaborative project.

· What is the project going to be about?

- Greetings


· What are the students going to learn?

- Starting a conversation

- Greeting habits

- Creativity

- Cultures


· Why have we chosen this subject?

- Good to start a school year.

- Making a movie from.

- Psychology aspect.

- Creative/innovative thinking.


· Why is it suitable for international collaborative work?

- Reflect on our own/other greeting habits.

- Know other cultures (better).


· How are we going to plan the project?

- Communicate between countries, with other teachers; agree on when the project will be and how, deadlines, etc...

- Create a paper within it is written the aims, expectations, demands, etc...


· How are we going to organize it? – Timetable – diving into smaller groups, etc...

- There will be a small milestone for each week; updates on the blog when their work, for each week, is done.

- Students will be divided into pairs.


· How to evaluate the project?

- There will be an evaluation each week/evaluation for milestone.

- Urge the students to evaluate on other students’ project on the blog.

- There will be a final evaluation of the whole project on the blog.


· How can the students learn something?

- Cooperative learning.

- Learning by doing.

- Practical teaching - oral.

- Theoretical teaching - written.


· How are you going to show/exhibit the project in school or to the parents?

- On the blog.


· Who is going to participate? – Colleagues – classes – external teachers – parents, etc...

- Danish/Spanish classes at age 11-15, and their teachers.


· Who is going to have which tasks:

1. Looking for a project partner – make detailed planning:

- Teachers

2. Making different arrangements/deals:

- Teachers

3. All the paper work for the parents – external persons, etc...:

- Teachers


· When is the project going to take place in the school’s year planning?

- In the very beginning of the school’s year – September/October.


· When are we going to involve the different participants?

- Summer break (maybe before).


· When can we say the project is a success?

- When we have reached the first contact with the teacher/students abroad.

- When we have reached our milestones.

- When the project is done.

- When we have a product to present on the blog, which shows a positive outcome.


· When to be – at school – at other institutions – at home etc...?

- Primarily at the school.

- But also at home to do homework.