A New Year of Collaborations: Partner Classrooms Wanted!

After spending a year getting to know elementary students and elementary teachers (it’s definitely quite a switch from middle school), I’m finally starting to feel like I know what kinds of projects are appropriate and achievable in the elementary classroom. All of the projects I completed with our amazing teachers last year really helped me…

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Reflections on Fourth Grade Collaborations

Over the past few months, I’ve worked on two major projects with several of our fourth grade classes: Books Go Global! and the 1001 Flat World Tales project. I absolutely loved working with fourth grade and it was especially interesting to do the 1001 Tales project for the second time with such a different age…

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Developing the Global Student

Here in east Asia, the big regional conference for teachers is the EARCOS Teacher’s Conference. It’s usually sometime mid-March and all of the schools from this part of the world are invited to attend. ISB is a longtime supporter of the conference and the school actually pays for the flight to the conference, along with…

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The Hook: Going Global With Collaborative Book Reviews

Update: Check out our new wiki: Books Go Global! Please feel free to add your class to our Participating Schools page and collaborate with us! Thanks to Lucy Gray for inspiring our wiki layout with her fabulous Cities of the World wiki (another amazing global collaboration to join!) ———- Today I introduced our two fourth…

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Collaboration Idea No. 3: Creating a "Flat Classroom"

One of the fabulous teachers from my previous post was so enthusiastic about collaborating with other schools that we started planning our very own “flat classroom” project today! Mary is a fellow new teacher here at ISB and she has been doing some amazing things with our Smart Boards already this year (not to make…

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