Guiding Question and Reflection
Old question: What can I learn from the Uruguayan approach to “taking action” to design and implement meaningful, cross-disciplinary opportunities for students in my school?
New: How can global projects in general be implemented to develop student changemakers in our school community?
Reflection:
When we were developing our guiding question - we were explicitly told that the question may change or morph over time and I didn’t quite understand why that would be until I was in Uruguay. From the start I was very interested in figuring out how to use my project and guiding questions to help students become changemakers in their community - using the fourth pillar of global learning as my focal point. The whole time I was only thinking from the lens of working with high school students.
As the time came closer to departing for Uruguay, I learned I would be paired with an elementary school and a…