summer readings

I do believe in the need for schools to actively engage in conversations about how to teach/prepare/engage students in global competency. I was happy to have the opportunity to share in common readings in order to get a better sense of what we as a school will be using as a common definition for global competencies.  

It wasn't difficult to think of different activities, lessons, or themes I have seen on all three campuses that do fit well with the knowledge and skills Reimers describes as needed to meet his "tri-dimensional nature of global competency". Some colleagues have listed specifics of lessons in their blog responses as well. I don't know if these lessons were being taught with the intention of working toward global competency, they might have been or perhaps they were designed with 21st Century Skills in mind, perhaps they were designed for other purposes. My point is that I do think as we engage in conversations together across campuses we will be able to identify teaching/learning that already serves as a foundation for global competencies, and we can identify/label these as such in order to "take stock" so to speak as to where we are meeting these needs....and where we need to do some rethinking.

What I am trying to say is that I don't believe this is necessarily a "new" initiative for BB&N, but instead (maybe) a new way for some about how we think about our approach to building global competencies and where we should go from here.

Kim

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Kimberly Gold

AS Coordinator of Psychological 

and Learning Support Services

Buckingham Browne and Nichols

Cambridge, MA

617-800-2227