Participants will learn about the history and driving principles of the ISSN. After reviewing the ISSN Global School Design Model participants will learn the ISSN approach to curriculum, instruction, and assessment: the Graduate Performance System (GPS). Importantly, participants will be introduced to valuable resources designed to help transform teaching and learning while preparing students for college, career, and global citizenship.
This presentation was given by Usha Bhaskar at the conference “Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in School: Moving a shared agenda forward” on 24-25 September 2019, London, UK.
Review of work on the Global Citizenship Program at Webster University, with attention to iimproving student learning and well being through exercising care.
Building a System of Learning and Instructional Improvement – Barbara Schneider EduSkills OECD
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Scientific expertise; what it is and how it relates to scientific critical th...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Carl Wieman at the conference “Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in School: Moving a shared agenda forward” on 24-25 September 2019, London, UK.
Presentation on the relationship of the Certification of Teaching Capacity (CTC) form and the NC Educator Evaluation System for UNCP Spring 2013 Student Interns.
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Review of work on the Global Citizenship Program at Webster University, with attention to iimproving student learning and well being through exercising care.
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This presentation was given by Barbaba Schneider at the conference “Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in School: Moving a shared agenda forward” on 24-25 September 2019, London, UK.
Scientific expertise; what it is and how it relates to scientific critical th...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Carl Wieman at the conference “Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in School: Moving a shared agenda forward” on 24-25 September 2019, London, UK.
Presentation on the relationship of the Certification of Teaching Capacity (CTC) form and the NC Educator Evaluation System for UNCP Spring 2013 Student Interns.
Fostering scientific critical thinking and creativity in higher education – C...EduSkills OECD
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In With the Locals: Why On-Site Connection MattersCIEE
How do we break the third wall between study abroad group bubble voyeurism to allow for meaningful, authentic engagement abroad? During this session, we'll investigate the implications of involving local parties in faculty-led study abroad, particularly for pointedly focused curriculum in non-traditional areas of study. Faculty, student, and provider perspectives speak to experiences of international collaboration, challenges and successes, and how to utilize local networks to coordinate a meaningful and engaging experience abroad. Additionally, faculty and resident staff will reflect specifically on seeking out relevant and timely contacts and experiences and will provide personal examples of how to position a program experience and curriculum to facilitate growth.
iNACOL Leadership Webinar: Blended Learning Programs and LeadershipiNACOL
This iNACOL webinar focused on how school and district leaders can most effectively and efficiently promote and support the integration of blended learning into their schools.
Fostering Students’ Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills: What it Means in...EduSkills OECD
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How do we break the third wall between study abroad group bubble voyeurism to allow for meaningful, authentic engagement abroad? During this session, we'll investigate the implications of involving local parties in faculty-led study abroad, particularly for pointedly focused curriculum in non-traditional areas of study. Faculty, student, and provider perspectives speak to experiences of international collaboration, challenges and successes, and how to utilize local networks to coordinate a meaningful and engaging experience abroad. Additionally, faculty and resident staff will reflect specifically on seeking out relevant and timely contacts and experiences and will provide personal examples of how to position a program experience and curriculum to facilitate growth.
iNACOL Leadership Webinar: Blended Learning Programs and LeadershipiNACOL
This iNACOL webinar focused on how school and district leaders can most effectively and efficiently promote and support the integration of blended learning into their schools.
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Presentation at the Bonner Fall Directors and Community-Engaged Learning Meeting on November 4, 2019 exploring integrative academic and co-curricular pathways. Narrates types of innovative degree pathways. With Ariane Hoy, Rachayita Shah, and Bobby Hackett.
DREAM 2017 | Faculty as Drivers of College Reform EffortsAchieving the Dream
Three of Achieving the Dream’s funded learning initiatives – the Open Education Resources Degree Initiative, Engaging Adjunct Faculty Initiative, and InSpark Network-- are creating faculty led teams to drive curriculum and pedagogy reform and to engage a wider swath of faculty – both full and part time, in institution wide reform efforts.
During this workshop, participants:
* Learned about strategies these colleges are using to give faculty greater ownership of the completion agenda.
* Completed a readiness survey to assess their college’s current policies and practices for engaging faculty in institution-wide reform work
* Developed a draft plan for engaging more faculty in reform efforts at their campuses
Launched in 2005, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) is a national initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first-century liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.
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We present a framework for design of learning activities within a context of an honors study abroad program. Translating into practice the fundamental principles of honors learning, such as challenge, learner autonomy, and being part of a community of learners, incorporating structured PRISM pedagogy (Williams, 2014), Fink’s (2003) guidelines for course design for significant learning experiences, and rigorous outcome assessment (AAC&U, 2010), the presenters developed a detailed curriculum design process that can be translated to any discipline and any honors classroom. A showcase of a student ePortfolio capturing the study abroad learning and competence development accompanies the presentation.
Experiential learning (ExL) is the process of learning through experience, and is more narrowly defined as "learning through reflection on doing".Hands-on learning can be a form of experiential learning but does not necessarily involve students reflecting on their product. Experiential learning is distinct from rote or didactic learning, in which the learner plays a comparatively passive role. It is related to, but not synonymous with, other forms of active learning such as action learning, adventure learning, free-choice learning, cooperative learning, service learning, and situated learning.
Experiential learning is often used synonymously with the term "experiential education", but while experiential education is a broader philosophy of education, experiential learning considers the individual learning process.[7] As such, compared to experiential education, experiential learning is concerned with more concrete issues related to the learner and the learning context.
The general concept of learning through experience is ancient. Around 350 BC, Aristotle wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics "for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them".[8] But as an articulated educational approach, experiential learning is of much more recent vintage. Beginning in the 1970s, David A. Kolb helped develop the modern theory of experiential learning, drawing heavily on the work of John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget.
Experiential learning has significant teaching advantages. Peter Senge, the author of The Fifth Discipline (1990), states that teaching is of utmost importance to motivate people. Learning only has good effects when learners have the desire to absorb the knowledge. Therefore, experiential learning requires the showing of directions for learners.
Experiential learning entails a hands-on approach to learning that moves away from just the teacher at the front of the room imparting and transferring their knowledge to students. It makes learning an experience that moves beyond the classroom and strives to bring a more involved way of learning.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1. ISSN 101
An Introduction to the International
Studies Schools Network
ISSN Summer Institute
Portland, Oregon
June 21, 2017
10:45-12:30 and 2:00-3:30
3. Roadmap for This Morning
An Introduction to . . .
Asia Society and the Center for Global Education
The International Studies Schools Network
Global Competence
The ISSN Beliefs
The ISSN Graduate Profile
The Four Domains of Global Competence
The Global School Design Model
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4. Roadmap for This Afternoon
An Introduction to . . .
The Graduation Performance System (GPS)
GPS Performance Outcomes and Rubrics
Globally Significant Issues (overviews)
Essential Questions
Performance Assessments (design shells)
SAGE
The Ning (online community)
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5. Asia Society at a Glance
A Connector, Convener, and Catalyst Between the U.S. and Asia
Arts
Education Leadership
Policy
6.
7. Asia Society Center for Global Education
Transforming Education for our Shared Future
8. Asia Society Center for Global Education
Transforming Education for our Shared Future
9. Introduction to the International
Studies Schools Network
What does membership in the ISSN provide you?
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23. Defining Global Competence
Global competence:
the capacity and disposition to understand and act
on issues of global significance
Global learning:
the process by which students become globally
competent
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24. ISSN Beliefs
① Excellence and Equity
② Knowledge, skills and disposition to be globally competent
③ College and career ready
④ Students own their learning/adults foster each student’s
success
⑤ School fosters inquiry, innovation, and reflection including
the broader world beyond
⑥ Learning is an ongoing process
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25. ISSN Graduate Profile
Ready for College
Knowledge Required in the Global Era
Skilled for Success in a Global Environment
Connected to the World
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26. Evidence of Alignment
With a partner, identify and highlight evidence of
the ISSN Beliefs in the Graduate Profile.
Be prepared to share your insights.
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29. Vision
What would you expect to find in a school that is:
Grounded in the ISSN Beliefs?
Preparing students to fulfill the ISSN Graduate Profile?
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See Hear Feel
30. Vision
What would you expect to find in a classroom where:
Students are engaged in global learning?
Learning experiences are designed around the four domains?
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See Hear Feel
33. Global School Design Model
• Take a moment to skim the Global School Design At a Glance
document – elementary or secondary edition.
• How does the vision of the school and classrooms described
here compare with your vision?
• Which elements of the Global School Design model are
already strengths in your school and classrooms?
• Which elements of the Global School Design model could be
introduced in your school or are opportunities for
improvement?
• What can you do in your classroom to help make global
competence a reality in your school?
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34. Deeper Learning Through a Global Lens
As you watch the video . . .
Look for evidence of:
the ISSN Graduate Profile
the Four Domains of Global Competence
Be prepared to share your insights.
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40. Global Leadership Jigsaw
• Home group: count off #1-4 to form expert groups
• Expert group: review one domain of Global Leadership:
1. Investigate the World
2. Recognize Perspectives
3. Communicate Ideas
4. Take Action
• Individually, read the performance outcomes; identify
important words and phrases.
• Together, discuss what each performance outcome means;
decide what is important to share with your home groups.
• Jigsaw back into home groups; teach each other about the
four domains.
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41. Global Leadership Performance Outcomes
What would you expect to find in a classroom where:
Students are working on the global leadership performance
outcomes?
The teacher is facilitating this kind of work?
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See Hear Feel
44. Roadmap for This Morning
An Introduction to . . .
Asia Society and the Center for Global Education
The International Studies Schools Network
Global Competence
The ISSN Beliefs
The ISSN Graduate Profile
The Four Domains of Global Competence
The Global School Design Model
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45. Roadmap for This Afternoon
An Introduction to . . .
The Graduation Performance System (GPS)
GPS Performance Outcomes and Rubrics
Globally Significant Issues (overviews)
Essential Questions
Performance Assessments (design shells)
SAGE
The Ning (online community)
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53. GPS Performance Outcomes and Rubrics
Portfolio of Student Work
College Ready and Globally Competent Graduate
Module and
Task Design
Module and Task
Implementation
Assessment and Rating
of Student Work
Student Feedback and
Teacher Reflection
Graduation Performance System
56. Globally Significant Issues
• encourage deep engagement,
• foster the capacity to connect local issues to global issues,
• have visible global significance, and
• are grounded in robust disciplinary and interdisciplinary
knowledge.
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61. Global Issues Overviews
• Environment and Sustainability
• Hunger and Poverty
• Human Rights
• Women and Girls in Education
• Infectious Disease: Impact and Prevention
• Clean Water: Access and Management
• Human Population Growth: A Boon or a Boom?
• Resource Conservation: The Future in Our Hands
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62. Global Issues Overviews - *NEW*
• Biodiversity: Nature in Balance
• Clean Energy
• Social Mobility and Income Inequality
•Sustainable Economics
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64. Performance Assessment Shells
• Digital Project: Using Technology to Address and Inform on
Global Issues
• Engineering: Working artfully to construct an object
• Community Action or Public Service: Take Action for Social
Change
• Develop a Business Plan: Entrepreneurial Approaches for
Global Issues
• Position Paper: What's Your Perspective?
• Infographics: Visual Representations to Understand the
World
• Public Speaking: Communicate Ideas of Global Significance
• Event Planning: Take Action for Social Change 65
65. Performance Assessment Shells - *NEW*
• Digital Stories: Integrating Knowledge and Skills through the
Art of Storytelling
• Civic Responsibility: Taking Action to Promote Peaceful, Just,
and Inclusive Societies
• Art Then and Now: Reflections on Society Through Time
• Cost/Benefit Analysis: Evaluating Opportunities for Change
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66. Using the Performance Assessment Shells
and Global Issues Overviews in the Classroom
Global Issue Overviews
• Environment + Sustainability
• Hunger + Poverty
• Human Rights
• Education for Women + Girls
• Infectious Disease
• Clean Water
• Human Population Growth
• Resource Conservation
• Biodiversity
• Clean Energy
• Income Inequality
• Sustainable Economies
Performance Assessment Shells
• Digital Project
• Engineering
• Community Action or Public Service
• Develop a Business Plan
• Position Paper
• Infographics
• Public Speaking
• Event Planning
• Digital Stories
• Civic Responsibility
• Art Then and Now
• Cost/Benefit Analysis
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67. Using the Performance Assessment Shells
and Global Issues Overviews in the Classroom
Global Issue: Clean Energy
+
Performance Assessment: Cost/Benefit Analysis
+
Subject Area Content and Skills
=
Module/Project with a Summative Task:
Students will craft a cost benefit analysis comparing the use of
fossil fuel to the use of clean energy.
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71. Introduction to SAGE
•Thinking back to the video, what did you notice
about the students and their work?
•What did you notice about the teachers, how they
interacted with the students, and what they had to
say?
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75. Designing a Global Project for Students
• Scan the Global Issue Overviews and the Performance
Assessment Shells.
• Identify ONE performance assessment and ONE global issue
you could incorporate into your curriculum.
What performance assessment best meets the needs of
your learners?
What global issue best supports the content of your
curriculum?
• What module/project might you design using the
Performance Assessment Shell and Global Issue Overview?
• How would you incorporate SAGE?
• When would you use it – what course, topic and time of
year? 76
77. Final Reflection and Questions
Please jot down:
• 3 things you’ve learned today
• 2 connections or applications to your practice
• 1 question you still have
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Asia Society is the leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia.
We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture, policy and business, and education.
School development organization
Began in 2003
34 schools in seven states
Mission: to develop college-ready, globally competent high school graduates
Today, more than ever before, the global is part of our everyday local lives. We are linked to others on every continent:
Socially through the media and telecommunications
Culturally through movements of people
Economically through trade
Environmentally through sharing one planet
Politically through international relations systems of regulation
~Oxfam’s Education for Global Citizenship: A Guide for Schools
Globalization of the economy
Cultural diversity and the need for global citizens
Issues of global significance
Almost all our challenges have an international dimension: health, global warming, energy/water, immigration, terrorism
Our security is intertwined with our understanding of other cultures
World languages and cultural knowledge are essential
Schools need to prepare students to
To deal with more rapid change than ever before
For jobs that have not yet been created
To use technologies that have not yet been invented
To solve economic and social challenges that we do not yet know will arise
~Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary General, “Foreward” PISA 2009 Results
Investigate the World: Students investigate the world beyond their immediate environment
Recognize Perspectives: Students recognize their own and others’ perspectives
Communicate Ideas: Students communicate their ideas effectively with diverse audiences
Take Action: Students translate their ideas into appropriate actions to improve conditions
A process to produce and assess student work in relation to a set of performance outcomes and rubrics that demonstrate college readiness and global competence in:
6 Core Subject Areas
Interdisciplinary Coursework
Aligned with Common Core & State Standards
How the GPS Works
As you can see from the Graduation Performance System Overview (resource), GPS implementation happens within the academic disciplines, aligned with Common Core State Standards and the Keys of College/Career Readiness, and it can be applied in interdisciplinary ways too.
The GPS performance outcomes and rubrics are the foundation, providing a definition of “what success looks like” by delineating the knowledge, skills, and dispositions students need to be college-ready and globally competent. There are seven sets of GPS performance outcomes in the six core disciplines and one set of cross-cutting performance outcomes in global leadership. All GPS performance outcomes are organized using the four domains of global competence: Investigate the World, Recognize Perspectives, Communicate Ideas, and Take Action.
The GPS performance cycle (in the middle) is at the heart of the GPS,
[CLICK TO ANIMATE] providing a research-based curriculum design,
[CLICK TO ANIMATE] implementation,
[CLICK TO ANIMATE] and assessment cycle focused on explicit and intentional planning for effective learning for all students. The GPS performance cycle is a series of continuous processes that repeat across the curriculum, and the cycle happens during in-school and out-of-school time through afterschool and summer programs.
[CLICK TO ANIMATE] The GPS portfolio (grey box) contains the student work that results from multiple performance cycles across all courses and learning experiences, which can certify that the student is both college-ready and globally competent by graduation (final orange box).
Implementing the GPS across the curriculum and across grade levels results in student portfolios that demonstrate mastery of both college and career readiness and global competence by graduation. Thus, the GPS provides an opportunity to not only chart student growth and proficiency in relation to individual performance outcomes, but also in relation to the full set of performance outcomes that define global competence overall.
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[Whole graphic in motion]. I hope you can now see why we consider the GPS Performance Cycle to be the heart of the GPS. It pairs the concept of scaffolded instruction with the concept of multiple opportunities to succeed at a summative assessment that opens the door to more learning, rather than closing the door on a subject.
Student ChoiceAre there options for students to make choices about content, process, and/or product within this task?
AuthenticIs this task asking students to do something adults do in the “real world”?
GlobalHow are students being asked to investigate the world, recognize multiple perspectives, communicate effectively, and/or take action?
Public Exhibition of LearningHow will students have the opportunity to present their learning to an authentic audience?