MFG Traits: Overview example 2

This year one of our goals as a group of teachers will be to develop an overview that describes each of our 11 MFG traits. Each of our teachers, as part of their Performance and Development Plans, is incorporating one or more of our traits into their teaching.

Below is another example of an overview of one of the traits.

RESPONSIBLE AND ACTIVE LOCAL AND GLOBAL CITIZENS

What is this trait and what does it look like in action?

Being a local citizen involves understanding our own culture

We are knowledgeable about selves, our own culture and how we view the world through our own cultural lens
To be able to participate and negotiate with people requires us to know and understand our culture, another’s culture and have skill in working between our own and another’s culture

Being an active global citizen involves developing the capacity to understand issues of global significance

We are curious and engaged in the world
We are able to investigate the world beyond our immediate surroundings
We try to understand our own and others’ cultural perspectives
We come to understand and take different perspectives by listening to and writing stories

Being a global citizen requires flexibility and curiosity

We are what we expect to encounter when we interact with a certain culture
This flexibility can subsequently lead to increased cultural curiosity and awareness and thereby improve intercultural relationships.

Developing global competence requires cultivating global thinking habits

We inquire about the world by engaging with questions, explore local-global connections and seek information beyond familiar environments
We try to understand multiple perspectives – others’ and our own – by considering cultural contexts, resisting stereotypes and valuing our shared human dignity
We practise respectful dialogue by communicating across differences, listening generously and sharing courageously
We take responsible action by being inclined to see and frame opportunities to improve conditions, collaborating with others and mobilising ourselves to act

Being an active local or global citizen can take a number of forms:

Volunteering
Link classroom learning with community organisations
Student curiosity about others cultures
Students leading change within a community
Using community members as resources for learning
Teacher prompting (What could you do? What is your role? How could you get involved? How could you help? How can you be a leader?)

Strategies and Techniques that our teachers use to develop this trait include:

Use classroom displays
Promote local/global initiatives (48Hr Famine)
Volunteering opportunities (St John Ambulance, CFA, Life Saving, Community Garden)
Global Fundraising promotions (Shave for a Cure, Relay for Life)
National and international trips
Sister School relationships
Diversity Team (Diversity Week school activities – dancing, food, dress…)
Weekly Quiz (international news)
Sorry Week
Highlight Indigenous experience in Australia stories
Sustainability Initiatives (how does local involvement connect to global impact? i.e. Boomerang Bags)
Linking teaching in with current world events
Link teaching with local issues and finding solutions

Thinking Routines:

‘See, think, wonder’ and ‘See, wonder, connect x2’ thinking routines
‘Think, Puzzle, Explore’ routine
‘Walk the week’ thinking routine
‘I wonder…’ questions
‘Question starts’ routine
Concept Map using the GSCE (Generate/Sort/Connect/Elaborate) approach
‘I used to think…now I think’

Marzano Strategies

Examining similarities and differences

Resources and Sources

Volunteering overseas - https://www.gviaustralia.com.au/volunteer-overseas/
VCAA Humanities, Civics and Citizenship - https://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/the-humanities/civics-and-citizenship/introduction/rationale-and-aims
VCAA Intercultural Capability - https://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/intercultural-capability/introduction/rationale-and-aims
7 teaching sequences (Scootle, DET website) https://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/search?topic=%22Global+citizenship%22
World Vision Australia - https://www.worldvision.com.au/get-involved/school-resources/detail/get-connected-global-citizenship

Dylan Wiliam’s Formative Assessment Strategies

‘Question shells’
‘Hinge’ questions
‘3 questions and a fib’
‘The 5 Whys’
Wait time

Project Zero Creative Visible Thinking Strategies

‘Connect, Extend, Challenge’ routine
‘See, think, wonder’ and ‘See, wonder, connect x2’ thinking routines
‘Think, Puzzle, Explore’ routine

Notes from the Numeracy Specialist…