My Global perspective Project outline

1. SUBJECT:
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

2. IDEA:
 Global Perspectives encourages awareness of
global problems and offers opportunities to explore
possible solutions through cooperation and
collaboration.
 The course aims at
 Allowing diversity in thinking rather than having
identical
 matter of opening minds and human thought to the
great complexity of the world
 opening hearts to the diversity of human experience
and feeling

3. WHY THIS PROJECT?
 Help students to
 deal with challenges in an interconnected
and information-heavy world,
 gain a sense of their own active place in
the world,
 to cope with changes that will impact on
their life chances and life choices.

4. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
 How can we make students part of thinking community
for solutions of Global issues and make connections at
individual level?

5. PROJECT OVERVIEW
 Students will explore stimulating topics that have
global significance.
 They will assess information critically and explore
lines of reasoning.
 They will learn to collaborate with others from
another culture, community or country, directing
much of their own learning and developing an
independence of thought.

6. SELECTED GLOBAL ISSUES
Child
Labour
Ageing
Saltpan
Workers
Public
Transport
HIV Aids
Women
Safety
Essential Question:
How can we make students part
of thinking community for
solutions of Global issues
and make connections at
individual level?
Group
size
4-5
students

7. ASSESSMENT:
GROUP ELEMENT
 The Group Project is made up of two parts:
a group element and an individual element.
 For the group element, each group must produce
a collective piece of work that includes:
 Students work together to write a project plan, carry out
research and produce an outcome.
 They are required to show evidence that they have
collaborated with others from another culture,
community or country.

8. ASSESSMENT:
INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT
 For the individual element, each student must
produce their own evaluation of the Group Project.
 Students must submit an individual evaluation of:
 the project plan and process
 the project outcome
 their own contribution to and learning from the project,
including cross-cultural collaboration
 The evaluation can consist of multimedia
communication and text or text only.

9. CHOSEN OUTCOMES
Child Labour
Documentary
Ageing
Video
Saltpan Workers
Website
Public
Transport
Doc
HIV Aids
Book
Life-Story of
HIV Patients
Women Safety
Posters
Outcomes