Unit
Topic
Theme

Region
Length

Empowering Global Citizens

7. 1

Introduction and Classroom Organization

ICC: interpersonal (working in intercultural teams); work
and mind habits: innovation and creativity; and ethics: com—
mon values

Any/ all

One week

Goals and Objectives

Skills

9’

Learn about membership in society, to organize toward attaining
some kind of common goal, and to reflect on their own practices
and interactions with one another.

Inspire students to reflect on their own practices and interactions
with one another in order to create a well—functioning classroom
and a positive classroom environment.

Act by collectively working toward sustaining and enabling a posi—

tive classroom environment.

and Knowledge

Students will discuss what it means to have a functioning, “good”
community in the classroom, their own roles in the classroom, and
the role of fair procedures and processes in the classroom.

Students will learn about the process of voting.

Students will experience the process of organizing themselves.
Students will learn about themselves and one another, particularly
about their leadership qualities.

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