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Many of the lessons were teacher-centred and somewhat repetitive. Students got tired of discussing the idea of "global citizen

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The

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A rubric would have been useful with direct curriculum expectations. 

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A rubric would have been useful with direct curriculum expectations. 

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the activities and mentor texts made it easy to differentiate for student needs and ELLs

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the activities and mentor texts made it easy to differentiate for student needs and ELLs

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A rubric would have been useful for the culminatin

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A rubric would have been useful for the culminatin

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Referencing big ideas in various subject areas, for example kids talking about community in french

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It was very difficult without being able to connect with other relevant curriculum areas (science and social studies). The model units are set up in a great way to connect to the other curriculum subjects, so I feel that they lose a lot of their richness being taught in the purely English setting.

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I found some of the model unit repetitive. There were many tasks that were oriented towards Toronto/Canadian students, and we had to find the Vietnamese equivalent to teach our students the same concepts.

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The timing of the unit in the school year did not make sense

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The timing of the unit in the school year did not make sense

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we had to change around our long range plans to accommodate for the parts of units that the model unit hit (would have been better suited if we did the model unit in the second half of the year/towards the end of the year)

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Students are really starting to understand what conflict is and how to solve problems in a variety of ways. It has been a main focus in reading and writing. 

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Students are really starting to understand what conflict is and how to solve problems in a variety of ways. It has been a main focus in reading and writing. 

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The concepts were well received by the students.  They are really excited to take action.
The culminating will be interesting as it is a big undertaking for them.

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I liked having an overarching theme for students to connect to, and for us to connect their learning to.

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Students are noticing the bigger ideas in the community

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Pair with Earth Day and Clean Up Vietnam

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Pair with Earth Day and Clean Up Vietnam

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The book would fit better in the spring when we have environmental initiatives

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As a student, its too long. As a teacher, it is hard to keep it within a 6 week unit because of all of the learning needs of our class. There needed to be a lot of pre-teaching before actually diving into the content of our unit.

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The concepts of justice, duty of care, empathy and responsibility are great to learn but they were a bit hard for students to grasp. Some students were able to understand the overall theme but the vocabulary was challenging.
However, the lessons were repetitive for students.

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The unit did not suit the needs of Vietnamese students ne

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The unit did not suit the needs of Vietnamese students ne

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I wish we had a couple other texts inthe  library to help deepen their understanding beyond the 2 monitor texts

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Concept was difficult for students to understand. A lot of tasks needed to be modified or done as a shared or group activity (not a lot of independent tasks). Not always accessible for ELL students. Many topics needed to be pre-taught, especially for Math, so it was a challenge to cover all the lessons in a timely manner. Quite repetitive- students began to get bored of the book and unit. Perhaps better to do in the second term?

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paring down the unit and picking out the important skills/concepts/ideas 

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paring down the unit and picking out the important skills/concepts/ideas 

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The students were interested in learning about residential schooling and gained a lot of insight into how all voices should be heard. It was a great tool to teach about fairness and equity.

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The 'big idea' or 'enduring understanding' fit very well with our grade level and school. Lots of overlap with GIN and strong connection to Human Geography 

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The 'big idea' or 'enduring understanding' fit very well with our grade level and school. Lots of overlap with GIN and strong connection to Human Geography 

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on paper the model unit is awesome but then actually putting them into a context where there are many ELL students where some of these big concepts might be difficult to grasp was definitely a challenge

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Kinder- we saw that our students needed to build an understanding of who they were in the classroom, at CiS before diving into understanding the community. Oral communication was our focus for this first unit. We will consider the big ideas of the model unit for our second unit/big idea

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meaningful integration of all subject areas. For us it was easy to integrate geography and the arts, but harder to integrate others.

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Th

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - unit was a bit repetitive. Many lessons needed to be adapted for ELL support. So much time needed to preteach vocabulary (vocab that isn't very useful, not words they will likely see again often...)

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - unit was a bit repetitive. Many lessons needed to be adapted for ELL support. So much time needed to preteach vocabulary (vocab that isn't very useful, not words they will likely see again often...)

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What I found difficult/unexpected (but most definitely paid off in the end) was the amount of time pre-teaching reading strategies and vocabulary to the students I had to do.

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activities and texts made it

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Common dialogue between students about something bigger

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Too early in the year, students needed more time to learn basic language and social skills necessary for the tasks.

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Allowed us to be extremely focused pedagogically.

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Allowed us to be extremely focused

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The text was long and a bit hard for students to understand. The conflicts in the story only represented one type of conflict which then needed to be supplemented with other texts. The final task had to be adapted and takes a long time to build up to it. 

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The text was long and a bit hard for students to understand. The conflicts in the story only represented one type of conflict which then needed to be supplemented with other texts. The final task had to be adapted and takes a long time to build up to it. 

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Students talked about big idea...

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There was a lot of preteaching before getting to the actual  lesson from the model unit.

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The enduring understanding of text was well nderstood ll

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The math was challenging to integrate as each math lesson jumped to different strands

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had to do a lot of prep before actually getting started into the model unit because lots of the topics were new to the students

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The students really eoyed the story of Wangar

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Students had a hard time connecting or understanding our mentor text - other mentor text suggestions would be helpful before beginning

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did i leave the stove on? whew no i didnt

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did i leave the stove on? whew no i didnt

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hi melissa