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Sabrina Kulakowski-Paster

As part of reading team at my school one thing I would implement next year is a monthly read aloud book that aligns with the learner profiles.  This would be a school-wide year-long initiative.  Admin would need help communicate the message to teachers and purchase the books and teachers will be the ones reading the books to the students.  At CLT meetings teachers and facilitators could plan the read aloud lesson and discuss how each book connects to the attributes.  Additionally, the CLT could create a reflection activity to go with each book.  We will know its working by sharing the reflection activities.

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J. Krisko
This would definitely be a team effort. Collaboration and delegation would be key in ensuring all areas are covered.

This plan would need the support of Admin, teachers, students, and parents. The more involved in the community, the better chance of success.

Essentially, this would be short term strategy for each 6 week attribute, and overall, a long term strategy.

Once students begin to think outside of themselves, think outside of their own little world (which is also developmentally appropriate for them to be egocentric), then we will begin to see the fruits of our labor.

The plan would be to create a Climate committee which keeps a pulse on the school community, reaches out for those who may want to speak to the students and share their background with others. Additionally, we pair each attribute unit with books and stories that come from all backgrounds that weave the attribute throughout. The reflections that the students share at the end of each unit should let us know what they are soaking up and what we still need to teach/model/imbed.

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Mary Shine
I believe that my plan will help to embed international mindedness in the school community.
1. celebrate an international week in the school  in connection with one of the Units of Inquiry.
2. The virtual classroom (flat classroom)can share , interact, and invent together by sitting in two different countries.
3. The students may conduct an exhibition which is unique and famous for their chosen country. The students may exhibit clothes, flag, antiques, materials, food, map, etc. from the state.

3. Additionally, the students can present PowerPoint presentations about their respected countries to the school community. These activate and preparations open up their mind to the international world. These help them to be curious learners.

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One thing I would love to do next year to promote international mindedness is to connect with other teachers and students from across the world. I think a perfect way to do this would be through literature. There are multiple initiatives throughout the year that encourage classes from all over the world to read the same book. During this time, it would be great to Skype with other classrooms about the book. Beforehand, I would do lessons with my students focusing on how other classes perspectives may be different depending on where they are from. This type of activity would foster international mindedness.

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Heather Breedlove

Next year it would be great to have more teachers connect with other classes around the world using #GridPals through FlipGrid. This could fit into any inquiry unit they are doing and work with a variety of grade levels.

Can I make this change alone? It takes a collaborative effort between teachers and others like myself to make this happen. I would look for teachers interested in global collaboration or connection.

If I have some teachers participate, then I know it's successful. Many times it starts with a few teachers, then more teachers want to participate.
http://blog.flipgrid.com/news/gridpals

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Manal Ramadan
I suggest several steps that can be carried out locally and internationally:

1. Organizing pen-pals with other States (Locally) perhaps in the city may be the first step to helping students see beyond their rural community. This could begin as a short term project, but depending on the commitment and enthusiasm, could develop into a large long term project, with whole school involvement.

2. I suggest then starting within the classroom by having students search for information ( videos and stories) about different cultures and share interesting information with peers.

3.Use help offered by your librarian, and choose books for international authors, books about different cultures.

4. Celebrating the World Book Day by having different classes presenting different authors from different countries after reading about them.

5. Organize an international day

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International Mindedness means bonding with different nationality people and appreciating them, their languages, cultures, beliefs, customs. The evidence of implementation the interational- mindedness in our school was organising a Culture Day involving all PYP students and their parents.  It was a long term strategy as all the pyp students have started their Culture Day action at the beginning of the week. Each pyp class supposed to represent their own chosen country so to get a chance to start realizing their inquiry. In all the pyp grades students have been divided into different investigational groups where they have had an opportunity to collaborate with each other by various activities according the culture, language, believe, food, holidays, customs, and clothes of that country. Additionaly, parents were also involved in cooking traditional meals and sweets of each country that they have never prepared before and also supporting their kids in decorating classes for the Ceremony- the very last day of a Culture Week.   The Culture Day eventually turned into a very fascinating international day in our school where students got a wide opportunity not only to enhance their knowledge about different countries but also show their respect towards other nationalities and their national values. My pyp 4 made small brochures/booklets with colorful illustrations, pictures and information of Lithuania and shared with guests who visited their classroom.

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International Mindedness means bonding with different nationality people and appreciating them, their languages, cultures, beliefs, customs. The evidence of implementation the interational- mindedness in our school was organising a Culture Day involving all PYP students and their parents.  It was a long term strategy as all the pyp students have started their Culture Day action at the beginning of the week. Each pyp class supposed to represent their own chosen country so to get a chance to start realizing their inquiry. In all the pyp grades students have been divided into different investigational groups where they have had an opportunity to collaborate with each other by various activities according the culture, language, believe, food, holidays, customs, and clothes of that country. Additionaly, parents were also involved in cooking traditional meals and sweets of each country that they have never prepared before and also supporting their kids in decorating classes for the Ceremony- the very last day of a Culture Week.   The Culture Day eventually turned into a very fascinating international day in our school where students got a wide opportunity not only to enhance their knowledge about different countries but also show their respect towards other nationalities and their national values. My pyp 4 made small brochures/booklets with colorful illustrations, pictures and information of Lithuania and shared with guests who visited their classroom.

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Embedding International-mindedness by Sandra Lobo                      1.Keep a ton of books from authors around the world, books to do with various cultures that include holidays and traditions as well as clothes and foods in my classroom library. These books would by default be exposing them to international-mindedness. I can’t do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with my librarian who is a wealth of knowledge. It will be a long-term strategy. I will know it is working when I find my students asking meaningful questions or making deeper level comments.2.	The posters on my wall will display adults and children from various cultures. So when my students are looking around the classroom, they will see people they resonate with and people they are curious about.I could do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with other teachers. It will be a long-term strategy. I will know it is working when I will have at least 1/4th of the present posters filling the above criteria.3.	Continue celebrating international week at school where each grade selects a country, researches everything about them and then creates presentations for other grade levels.I can’t do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with the committee in charge. It will be a short-term strategy. I will know it is working when it is a successful week of presentations with students who are better informed about the 5 – 6 countries chosen that year.4.	Writing pen-pal letters with students from another country.I can’t do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with my admin. It will be a long-term strategy. I will know it is working when I find my students choosing to write and looking forward to the letters. 

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Embedding International-mindedness by Sandra Lobo                      1.Keep a ton of books from authors around the world, books to do with various cultures that include holidays and traditions as well as clothes and foods in my classroom library. These books would by default be exposing them to international-mindedness. I can’t do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with my librarian who is a wealth of knowledge. It will be a long-term strategy. I will know it is working when I find my students asking meaningful questions or making deeper level comments.2.	The posters on my wall will display adults and children from various cultures. So when my students are looking around the classroom, they will see people they resonate with and people they are curious about.I could do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with other teachers. It will be a long-term strategy. I will know it is working when I will have at least 1/4th of the present posters filling the above criteria.3.	Continue celebrating international week at school where each grade selects a country, researches everything about them and then creates presentations for other grade levels.I can’t do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with the committee in charge. It will be a short-term strategy. I will know it is working when it is a successful week of presentations with students who are better informed about the 5 – 6 countries chosen that year.4.	Writing pen-pal letters with students from another country.I can’t do it by myself. I will need to collaborate with my admin. It will be a long-term strategy. I will know it is working when I find my students choosing to write and looking forward to the letters. 

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Afag Gadirova

As one of the ways to embed international-mindedness in a school community I can suggest celebrating a Culture Day that we did in our school.  It's a long term strategy but very informative and productive for developing international- mindedness in a school community.

We celebrated Cultural Day this academic year in our school.  It was a long-term strategy but it was amazing! Everyone was excited and enjoyed the process of preparation.

Each PYP class was given one country to represent. There were chosen different countries all around the world from which we have students studying in our school. Cultural Day in our school involved students, teachers and parents who created, participated and celebrated culture  in our community. Our students were welcome and encouraged to celebrate our diversity by performing activities in class and in assembly. Each class students performed a dance of the country they represent in the assembly.

The students were involved in researching information, pictures and different interesting facts about counties for decorating displays. The classrooms were arranged  according to the country the class represented. There were presented flags, information about leaders and other famous people of the countries, main cities and currency on the posters. All guests could feel the atmosphere of nationality and individuality of each country, while entering the classrooms. They could taste national food, drinks and sweets, see the national attributes and values and hear national music.

Our students dressed in clothes from different cultures and nationalities across the world. We had such a rich culture based celebration on different nationalities represented at the school. We were proud of our students  who were represented different countries all around the world.

Cultural Day is a chance where we celebrate each other with our different and unique backgrounds. Students had an opportunity to get more information about different countries, their cultures, traditions, values, music, fashion, art, dance and food. Most of them wished to visit  other countries and explore them by themselves.

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Jo Prosser

From the feedback and strategies suggested in the responses to Andrea and Toni, my plan for implementing international mindedness would be:

To create a buddy/penpal exchange with other students and schools from around the world.

This would need support and permission from school administrators, parents and those in the country being communicated with. Countries chosen could be established using connections that we already have within our school community, taking advantage of the wide international links already in place.
Collaboration with the other teacher/s would need to be organized prior so that guidelines for communicating are clear and consistent from both ends, with common aims and outcomes.

I see this as being a long term strategy, with investigation, research and communication taking place across the year, with different schools. Research that students carry out for each would also take time. Comparison and similarities and connections between different countries, and the students own lives made.

The working of this can be assessed through the questions being asked, a growing understanding, empathy, identifying similarities and differences and making connections between their lives and lives of others

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Embedding International Mindedness- Visuals, Literary Books, Videos

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I believe that one way to foster an international mindedness is to expose students to other cultures, through various outlets. Children are often exposed to books, videos, music, and learning tools that are familiar to them. Allowing children to experience and compare/contrast their way of life to someone else, allows them to relate their way of life to another persons.

Currently, our grade 1 students are focusing on their family past, history and traditions, and how it relates to their way of life now. To deepen the connection and help foster a international mindset, students are also comparing their way of life to different cultures. Using books, videos, pictures, and resources from other cultures, students are able to gain an understanding of different cultures. Exposing students through simple means, such as pictures, videos, audio, and books is a great way to help foster being opened minded and accepting when students may not otherwise be exposed.

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Shellane D'Souza

Mystery Skype connects students from around the world. Once registered, the teacher logs in and makes a call to a random class from around the world. Once connected through a video call to the other class, the students ask questions about the country in an effort to guess the mystery country. This involves a lot of research and collaborative skills to solve the mystery. Check out the link below for more information.

Welldone

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Jelena Tomanic

Our school is still developing the idea of international mindedness, so in this moment each teacher is making an effort to teach that idea in their class. Our Prekindergarten students are starting their school year with the Unit Who We Are. With their classroom teachers they talk about themselves – what is their name, age, hair color, eyes color, who they live with, what they like, what they don’t like etc. When they share information about themselves teachers are giving them a provocation – how are we same and what makes us different to each other. When they compare themselves with others it gives them an opportunity to start a conversation about people all over the world. For that purpose, we are using different resources like books, songs, videos… As we are an international school we have students from different parts of the world so they can share their knowledge about what is different in country of their origin – what language they talk, do people look same or different in their country and here, do they have same food here and there. If students cannot answer some of these questions we recommend them to talk to their parents and to ask them all about it. We are also extending that idea to music and physical education, so we are talking about what are our students’ favorite songs and games and then we are introducing to them songs and games that are popular in other parts of the world. To implement these ideas, it is important that classroom and specialist teachers cooperate and develop a plan of activities for each subject. To check their understanding of what they learned about different cultures we ask them to draw a picture of a child from some other part of the world (i.e. Africa, America/Europe) with all details that they can remember about the (how their houses look like, what food they eat, what games they play etc.

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I would like to share  my PEN-PAL experience with you  so that you know how meaningful it can be in terms of  international-mindedness.

I have had this kind unforgettable activity with my and American schools.    I think that a class partnership could be just a great opportunity  as it is a kind of arrangement where some teachers and their classes in different international  schools,  sometimes across the world from each other decide to make contact between each other  for an agreed period of time so that children could have a chance to collaborate with each other in order to embed international mindedness and cultural experience too. And It was really fantastic!

Students could  write  and sent photographs to each other. Also they asked questions about each other`s school lives, subjects they love, sport  and so on. They also loved to learn some words in other languages just because some children were bilinguals.They were really motivated to have friends from a different place or part of the world.  Some students asked questions about their habits and codes of behaviour in  families between each other. I noticed how children were excited to learn something about somebody`s traditions and culture too. They also share something about themselves and invited them to visit our country someday.  Sometimes the teachers  connected and kept in touch as well.

A school partnership opens the children’s minds up to the wider world and makes they passion for learning a being a global citizen as well as a international-minded person too.
A pen pals program is one of the most fun ways to give our students  a real-life lesson and international-mindedness as it gives a brilliant opportunity to share with so many children from  all around the world something unique about your culture,language and traditions. It is really amazing to see how children from all the parts of the world exchange their skills and knowledge with each other in every single letter they send. I think this kind of activity between schools  can make their IB learner profiles much better in terms of international-mindedness . Hope it helped.

Zaur Aliyarov

thank you for sharing

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