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This is actually my silly senior TOK class, but feel free to tell me what your class shared about ways you engage in international mindedness. In our class, we consider lots of different perspectives related to the subjects we study. We also talk about ways they are engaging in Creativity, Activity, and Service (CAS).

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Model UN, YIG, EdTour Trips (Japan), exchange program, learning a new language, German students studying at SMMHS

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We’ve experienced intercultural understanding in our language classes. We’ve also experienced global engagement in our 6th grade class when we read A Long Walk to Water and did the fundraiser to earn money for a well in Africa, EF trips, exchange students.

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Model UN, YIG, Ed Tours (Japan), exchange program, studying foreign languages, German students studying at SMMHS, IB, world history class, Global Politics.

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I love international mindedness

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My 6th graders loved to discuss the topics. They seem to understand how to be open to other cultures.

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Oh, Redman.

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We talked about welcoming international students into the school and understanding cultural differences such as the use of figurative language which isn't used in some other countries

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SO AWESOME ROAR!

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We've experienced getting to know exchange students. We've learned more about other cultures in our language classes.

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We discussed Global Engagement and defined engagement as interacting with different communities and cultures, even when they are different from our own. We also included the idea that engagement is more than understanding others and includes knowing the challenges of others and taking steps to make changes.

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Walk for Water

Food Drive

Donating to other countries

Learning a language

Bringing in food from different cultures

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We discussed what global engagement meant. Kids shared an experience they had with global engagement. They talked about the foreign language they are taking in class. We also discussed the picture and how it's important to be understanding of people's lives.

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8th grade

Being more aware of what is happening around the world. Having SOAR block to understand other cultures. Learning languages. Reading summer reading books for ELA.

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Our SOAR class discussed how we understand and experience International Mindedness at Signal. We talked about our different language classes, our different cultures both at school and in the world. We talked about how learning different languages can help in many ways. We were surprised that the picture shown at the beginning was in the US.

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International school for global issue

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My 6th graders plan to learn about different cultures/languages/countries in their language acquisition classes, empathize with those who are learning English as a second language, and work on ways to engage with all different kinds of people.

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We talked about how we welcome international students to our school every year, how we're encouraged to learn another language, and also how cultural differences can be a struggle, for example we use a lot of figurative language here in the US while that is not the case in many other countries.

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Our class gave a shout out to the 6th grade carousal for exposing them to multilingualism!

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Seventh graders experienced Walk for Water last year and learned that it is difficult for many families in other countries to obtain water. They also had the language carousel last year and learned about the differences between French, German, and Spanish cultures.

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At an IB school we have opportunities to become internationally minded by asking questions, showing empathy and open-mindedness, and reflecting on our thoughts and actions.

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Studying another language has helped me be more globally minded. Getting to know some of the exchange students and international students could be another way we can grow more internationally minded.

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My students were eager to talk about our exchange students. They enjoy becoming friends with our exchange students and learning about their cultures. At Signal, our students study foreign languages and engage in global activities such as Model UN, YIG, and Leo Club.

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Today students shared their experiences of intercultural understanding. They discussed how they can be globally engaged through international travel and how that can help them be more aware of international issues.

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We think that SMMHS provides many opportunities for global engagement through Model UN, YIG etc. But we could learn more about global issues if there was more diversity in our student population.

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Most students found it easiest to discuss multilingualism. Our class is blessed to have 3 international students, one of whom speaks four languages.

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Students said...

We learned about how people had to do stuff to survive on their own.

We learned that there is still modern-day poverty with people who have less than we do.

When we complain about something that we don't have, think about the people who have so little to live on.

We can do something about global issues.

We need to be open-minded to those people who don't have as much as we do.

No contribution is too small--it all helps!!!

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We talked about how international mindedness helps us remember that we share this planet with diverse groups of people from different countries and cultures.

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We are learning about the importance of having an impact on the world and we are growing the skills through what we learn in IB.

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We learn about global engagement and international mindedness through hosting exchange students, our language classes, and discussing current events.