Connecting A School Community
By Inquiring Into Culture, Perspectives, Transitions & Change
4 Presentations To Start The School Year (click on images to view ppt/prezis)
"Where Are You In The Transition Process?"
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Audience: Students, Staff & Parents (Incorporate parts or all of the model)
Adults and children go through the same stages in the transition process. Even though the stages are the same for everyone, we move through them in our own way and in our own time. How might this model:
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"What Do We Know About Global Nomads & Third Culture Kids (TCKs)"?
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Audience: Parents & Staff (Parent Association Coffee Morning)
Parents and staff connect and reflect on the opportunities and challenges of living abroad and raising Global Nomads/Third Culture Kids. It is important to explore the frequent repetition of the transition process for TCK/Global Nomads and how it applies to your local or international school setting. How might your school:
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"What Is That Global Nomad / Third Culture Kid Feeling?"
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Audience: Elementary Students & Educators (Assembly)
During Assembly, we explored the hidden culture of Third Culture Kids/Global Nomads within our school. Many students resonated with some or all elements of the Third Culture Kids/Global Nomad feeling.
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"How Might We Cultivate Intercultural Understanding In Our Community?"
Audience: K-12 Educators & Staff (workshop)
Staff explored culture, identity and transitions. They inquired into their own perspectives and shared assumptions often made by others. Staff identified themselves and others as Third Culture Kid (Adults)/Global Nomad based on transient, global childhoods. How might:
Staff explored culture, identity and transitions. They inquired into their own perspectives and shared assumptions often made by others. Staff identified themselves and others as Third Culture Kid (Adults)/Global Nomad based on transient, global childhoods. How might:
- Surface and deep culture be explored within your school?
- Intercultural understanding be encouraged in your staff?
- It be incorporated into curriculum and classroom teaching?
7 Presentations To End The School Year (click on images to view ppt/prezis)
"How Might The R.A.F.T. Strategy Apply To You & Those Around You?
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Audience: Students, staff and parents (Incorporate part or all of strategy)
Whether it is changing classes, schools, homes, communities or countries, there are important steps we can take to say good-bye that may help children and adults move through endings and prepare for new adventures. How might the 4 Strategies within R.A.F.T.:
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"How Might We Improve End Of Year Traditions to Support Students?
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Audience: Early Childhood/Elementary Educators (workshop)
Most of our students have not only visited but lived in more countries than the teachers that teach them. They have wings and fly - often. As adults in the lives of these children, how might we create opportunities to:
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"What Do We Know About How We Change & Grow?"
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Audience: Early Childhood Students & Educators (Assembly)
Talking about change, sharing stories about changes we have been through created opportunities to share feelings as the school year ends. It was a simplified R.A.F.T. strategy to help them build resilience and work through change in a healthy way. How might you adapt this (or any presentation) to fit your student needs within your school community? |
"How Do You Make Good-byes Good Ones?"
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Audience: Early Childhood Students & Educators (Assembly)
Our school counselors shared ways to say end of year good-byes in a developmentally appropriate manner with our youngest students. Reading a story and including a short talk with visuals let our youngest children have a chance to reflect on how their worlds were changing as the school year ends. How might:
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"How do you let go and look forward to new chapters in your life?"
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Audience: Middle School Students & Educators (Assembly)
Encouraging students to resolve problems and end things well with friends before moving on to new adventures is a hard truth best told with humour. Sharing steps they can take to move forward with as little 'baggage' as possible is a simple, yet powerful message to hear - and best heard from their peers. How might students:
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Are you leaving for new adventures or staying while your friends move on?
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Audience: Early Childhood, Elementary & Secondary Parents (workshop)
**Presentation yet to be uploaded An invite to parents (who are leaving or staying while others leave) to explore how to help themselves, their children and others they care about end things well before beginning new adventures.
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"Are You A Kindergarten 'Soon-To-Be' Grade 1 Student Or Parent?"
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Audience: Parents (preparing to transition from Kindergarten to Grade 1)
**Presentation not yet uploaded An opportunity for parents to listen, ask questions and connect with leadership and Grade 1 Educators in preparation for their child to transition from Kindergarten to Grade 1.
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