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Home   Standard1 / Standard2 / Standard3 / Standard4 / Standard5 / Standard6 / Standard7 / Standard8 / Standard9 / Standard10 **Standard 1** ** Teachers know the subjects they are teaching. ** The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines she or he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils

Evidence1: The Global "Hello" Project

http://aglobalhello.wikispaces.com/ Rationale 1:

As part of a map skills and world communities unit, my students worked with another classroom to make a video. Students wrote screenplays, researched “hello” in different languages and put together the montage seen on our Greenville page.

To share their video globally, I created the Global Hello Project wiki. We invited other classrooms around the world using the Skype Educator Network and added schools to the page as they hoped to join the project. Then, students used a mapping program to keep track of the different places on the world map we have connected with.

 KSD:

1.K.3 The teacher relates his/her disciplinary knowledge to other subject areas

This project has become cross curricular, branching from social studies to math class (figuring out distances from our city). We have talked on a deep level about what it is like in other countries, even incorporated current events into the discussions.

1.S.1 The teacher effectively uses multiple representations and explanations of disciplinary concepts that capture key ideas and links them to students’ prior understandings.

When we began the project it was all about learning a different language’s greeting. Now it has evolved to something much more global and relevant to the students lives!

1.D.1 The teacher realizes that subject matter knowledge is not a fixed body of facts but is complex and ever evolving. S/he seeks to keep abreast of new ideas and understandings in the field

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> By nature this is an evolving project as different countries around the world are joining in. We explain to students that this is ﻿ something that will continue to change as it reaches more people. It is fun to check the history of the page to see who has been editing and revising their work.