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Reading Folk Tales- I think reading out folk tales to children of different cultures will make know about similarities and difference in their own and other's cultures. They will feel connected and encouraged to know more about the world around them. I found this website interesting for the same: www.happybrownhouse.com

Interactive Sessions with Parents- We can call parent community and ask them share their travel stories or family stories which will help help in developing empathy among learners.
Multicultural songs- Learning and singing songs in different languages can also help in bringing different cultures together.
Role Playing- The educators can help learners role playing different cultures around the world. (pic attached)
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Making a lapbook- like pasting the famous places/ cuisine of some countries.
Having kitchen activities like What is in your plate, where they along with parents prepare dish of different countries (the one assigned to them)
Greetings- Can assign them different languages and ask them to find out how to say 'hello' and 'thank you' and can greet in that manner weekly /monthly.

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Some things, can be managed alone like reading stories and kitchen activities. But for other activities like interactive session with parents, singing multi-cultural songs, I will need help of whole community and together I am sure we will make it happen.

Long Term: All these activities will be a long term strategy as it is not a day's work. It is something we have to develop in our learners and developing takes time.

Is it working:
I think the feedback of parents and students would help me know the same.

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Some of the strategies that we have already implemented in our classrooms are culture card and individual differences and similarity Venn diagram. Culture Card is like a profile of the students culture and heritage. Through this culture card he or she can proudly display the things they like about themself. And at the end of the UOI, there will be gallery walk,  where students can share and learn from each other. With that we can have them brainstorm to find similarities and differences between their culture and that of their classmates. We will needing support and guidance from our coordinators to arrange their resources. We can check validity and effectiveness of the following activities by asking students to keep a reflective journal. We can ever have some checklists and

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The work done in group is always efficient and well planned. We can start with making changes at individual level, the result/impact of which can be seen at community level.

We need to collaborate with peers and professional from other schools to achieve the goal. Reading stories, art, dance and theatre are also some of the tools for embedding international mindedness.

This will be a long term strategy and plan taking short achievable goals.

Change is a gradual process. To understand if it is working or not, we need to do a periodic analysis of the impact which it is making on the learners as well as weigh the pros and cons.

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Developing international mindedness is the need of the hour. Drawing students' attention to issues the world is facing like scarcity of water and letting them explore the reasons for the same will certainly lead them to think of some possible solutions. This is the story of ryans well. A good read which will make children think how a young boy can contribute so largely to society.

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Developing international mindedness is the need of the hour. Drawing students' attention to issues the world is facing like scarcity of water and letting them explore the reasons for the same will certainly lead them to think of some possible solutions. This is the story of ryans well. A good read which will make children think how a young boy can contribute so largely to society.

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https://www.ryanswell.ca/about-ryans-well/#:~:text=world's%20developing%20countries.-,Our%20Story,access%20to%20safe%20drinking%20water.
Drawing students attention to newspaper articles also helps them relate to such issues. here is one such article.

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/this-story-of-maharashtra-s-water-wives-is-as-heartbreaking-as-the-drought-itself-253278.html
Once the students are able to relate to such issues , they could conduct awareness rallies among their neighbourhood . I believe exploration will lead to making connections and children will be able to analyze for themselves issues that are global. They will be able to understand the long term impact of human activities and behaviour on the environment.
In the words of Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, “I do think the 21st-century is about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large”.

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Can you make this change alone?

To develop international mindedness is  a collaborative task. We cannot achieve it alone. We need to involve students, parents, teachers and all others associated with this educational aim.
Who might you need to collaborate with?
School needs to collaborate with the international institutions and follow the curriculum that enhances international mindedness. Involvement of parent community is also important. Teachers should collaborate with global community teachers to have each others views of global issues and how to solve them, also to discuss various ways of how to enhance this skill in our learners.
Is this short term strategy or long term strategy?
To develop international  mindedness is a long term strategy. Learners need to involved with local and global issues as per their developmental milestones. It is long term because it involves transformation ( global issues to be resolved, respecting each others differences, becoming global citizen).
How will you know it is working?
Involving learners into activities.
Their participation and their views about the local and global topic given. Assessments is also the tool to know that learner is developing this skill or not.
Things we could implement in our classroom or school to embed international mindedness

Speaking skills on topics that involve local and global issues.

Role plays and skits.

Ted talk

Exhibitions where students exhibit their ways to promote international mindedness and encourage others also to do the same.

Transdisciplinary approach for all local and global issues.

Guest speakers

Give students their voice and choice to promote international  mindedness.

Involve all agencies during regular intervals of time.

Collaborative activities with other schools like exhibition, making new models, inviting out of the box ideas and discussion for the same, competitions scholastic as well as co-scholastic.

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It is always better to work in collaboration. When experiences and efforts of all the agencies work together, the results are incredible and unbelievable. Sharing of different experiences and thoughts help student to think about global issues and their culture.

It can be done in many ways having a role play or some enactment.

Some story telling sessions or reading sessions.

Watching movies or documentaries.

The more we collaborate the more we receive. I would like to involve parents, friends or their known people around the world, as each and every person has his own understanding and experiences to share. Parents will play a major role as they know their children better and have a lot to share.

It is not a day task. International mindedness or the learner attributes cannot be developed overnight. This needs not only time but the right strategy too. Kids are highly sensitive and curious. We need to be very cautious while choosing the strategies.

We as teachers are keen observers. We observe our students growing not only physically but intellectually. Changes in behavior of students, feedback from parents will certainly help me to know about the fruitfulness. Time to time assessment of the same can be an option.

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Nidhi Rai - Creating international mindedness among my students

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Nidhi Rai - Creating international mindedness among my students

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These are the following strategies that I would use in my class for promoting and developing international mindedness among my students:
a) Virtual Play dates where students can come together for playing interactive games. These games can incorporate social or empathetic messages and would help in promoting compassionate learners.
b) Reading of stories or travel tales - This will broaden the imagination of students and keep them engages in their learning process. The real life stories will help students in connecting better with real life situations across the world.
c) Reading newspaper/Journals - To give information about what is happening around the world and people's views on it.
d) Formation of clubs where every day some students can bring few interesting world facts for the students of club to discuss and ponder upon and present their views while learning from other's point of views.

Development of international mindedness among students is a collaborative effort which requires support of the learning community as a whole. It involves participation of all the stake holders responsible for a child's learning. It cannot be developed over night. Its a long term strategy which requires planning and execution along with reflecting upon our strategies for improvement. Students improved level of participation and acceptance towards different local and global topics will help me in understanding whether my strategies are working or I need to twerk them a bit.

Regards
Nidhi Rai

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To embed international mindedness among students, the learning community need to work collaboratively. Collaboration means working towards the same goal. It can be achieved in many ways-
Engage the learners in constructive dialogue with people from a variety of perspectives.
School exhibition based on major festivals and traditions from around the world should be conducted. Learners should be encouraged to take ownership of the events and to tell others about their traditions.
Learners should be encouraged to attend multicultural events with their family members.
In classrooms combine the use of library material, puppetry, digital material and oral communication including local history and folklore to develop international mindedness.
Celebrate events that promote intercultural dialogue in music, dance, arts and sports.
It's a long term strategy as change doesn't happen overnight. It's not a straight line of progress. Student reflection and parent reflection will help us to know is our strategy working.

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Shweta                                  To embed International Mindedness among students, collaborative case studies, would be a great strategy as the students would get a chance to think critically and in the group they will be able to share their minds. Second strategy that might be a great help is story telling and leaving the completion of the story on students and they can work again in collaboration to finish the task after brainstorming together. Sometimes, individual tasks can also be given at random, to speak on or to give their views on. Although in all types of collaborative strategies, they get a maximum chance to think critically but there is no denial that individual activities also promote them to be creative in their own way. Like in a role play method if some can give their responses through drawing, some can show it through different gestures like theatre and dance etc. then it would really promote International open-mindedness. Also Problem based learning is a very good strategy as here, students would get chance to speak their minds and would try to come up with different solutions if they will be given chances and liberty to perform or speak or to express their thoughts in their own way. then it will surely develop open-mindedness in them.

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Shweta                                  To embed International Mindedness among students, collaborative case studies, would be a great strategy as the students would get a chance to think critically and in the group they will be able to share their minds. Second strategy that might be a great help is story telling and leaving the completion of the story on students and they can work again in collaboration to finish the task after brainstorming together. Sometimes, individual tasks can also be given at random, to speak on or to give their views on. Although in all types of collaborative strategies, they get a maximum chance to think critically but there is no denial that individual activities also promote them to be creative in their own way. Like in a role play method if some can give their responses through drawing, some can show it through different gestures like theatre and dance etc. then it would really promote International open-mindedness. Also Problem based learning is a very good strategy as here, students would get chance to speak their minds and would try to come up with different solutions if they will be given chances and liberty to perform or speak or to express their thoughts in their own way. then it will surely develop open-mindedness in them.

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In this, of course I need support of my colleagues as well as parents. These all would be a long term learning strategies.

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The following strategies can be used to embed International mindedness among students:
* Organize a week - long international, intercultural event through which children explore food, music, sports, costumes, etc. of different parts of the world.
* View and discuss films and video clips featuring and/ or depicting global issues followed by social awareness through rallies, exhibitions, posters, canva etc.
* Use Assembly time to reflect on world around you.
* Organize Annual Functions on the themes related to global issues.
*Use news as a platform to discuss key issues followed by debates, declamations etc.
For effective execution of all the strategies mentioned above, teachers, learners, parents and people outside the school community need to collaborate.
Students' and parents' reflections as well as the observation of the learners' behaviour from time to time would help me understand how well the strategies are working.
Deepa Shanker

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Some of the tools that I would like to implement in my class room for promoting international mindedness are               Story narration	collaborative case studies, that would enhance the chance for sharing and listening to each other’s experiences	            Initiating debate and discussions on global issues                             	Give students their voice and choice to promote international  mindedness	Reading newspaper/Journals - To give information about what is happening around the world and sharing each other’s perspective.           We will need support and guidance from our peers and professionals from other schools to achieve the goal. We can check validity and effectiveness of the following activities by asking students to keep a reflective journal and checklist. All these are long term strategies. It is something that we have to develop in our learners and is a ongoing process the result of which will not be visible in a day or so. 

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Some of the tools that I would like to implement in my class room for promoting international mindedness are               Story narration	collaborative case studies, that would enhance the chance for sharing and listening to each other’s experiences	            Initiating debate and discussions on global issues                             	Give students their voice and choice to promote international  mindedness	Reading newspaper/Journals - To give information about what is happening around the world and sharing each other’s perspective.           We will need support and guidance from our peers and professionals from other schools to achieve the goal. We can check validity and effectiveness of the following activities by asking students to keep a reflective journal and checklist. All these are long term strategies. It is something that we have to develop in our learners and is a ongoing process the result of which will not be visible in a day or so. 

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To embed international mindedness in the classroom among students all the stake holders : students, teachers , Parents and plays pivotal role. This work can be done efficiently and effectively in collaboration. It also helps to promote respect, empathy and compassion.

Following are the few strategies which can be used to promote international mindedness.

Introduction to stories- Reading or narrating tales to children(by children /by teacher) of different regions and cultures. Even some stories can be incorporated in the curriculum by management.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/saudi-arabia-s-new-curriculum-to-include-ramayana-mahabharata-101619174205846.html

Sharing about one’s own culture: They will be able to compare their cultures, will locate some similarities or differences. This way they can be encouraged to respect these commonalities or differences. To be sensitive towards other cultures too. https://www.getepic.com/book/7825886/how-are-we-the-same-and-different

Making a Collage - like pasting the pics of attires, famous food, famous places, famous leaders etc. other countries.

Sharing Photo Album:Children can be encouraged to share their photographs related to cultural festivities, travel etc.

Cultural Fest and Costume: Children will dress up in a specific country’s attire and will introduce him/herself in that language.

Discussion about age appropriate global concerns.

Many schools have policies in place and organize special events to help develop global citizens. So in this school can play an important role where  schools can have exchange Programs.

This process of embedding international mindedness is a long term process so any of the change in a learner's behavior can be observed gradually.It may take a few months, some years or a long period of time to bring into behavior.
For this periodic analysis, recording anecdotes, feedback from peer group, teachers and parents can be taken up.

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To embed International mindedness we need to collaborate with the learning community which includes  parents, management and learners
There are various strategies that can help to embed international mindedness among the students, I am sharing some here-
*Reading stories to the children in Hindi and English.

*Inviting parents to read stories to the children in their mother tongue, thereby developing respect for the students’ own languages and exposing classmates to the sounds of those languages.

*Celebrating special days like Earth Day, Labour Day, Mother’s Day etc and thus helping the children understand how these days are being celebrated all over the world.

*The other activity that children love the most is “Cuisines -Around the Country/World” which includes dishes from other cultures. These are prepared by the parents and shared and eaten by the children, like- South Indian Dosa, Gujrati thepla and dhokla, Chinese noodles, American-style sandwiches, Asian fruits, and much more.

*During circle time the children can be asked to share their linguistic knowledge with their peers, they can teach others how to count to 10, how to say hello and thank you, and some other vocabulary in their native languages or other languages they knew. Children become very interested in sharing what they knew and practicing new things.

*During free conversations the children can be asked to tell about their summer/winter holidays, different places they visited, landscapes, types of homes, food, clothing etc of these places.
The process of embedding international mindedness is a long term process but student's and parent's response through reflection will help us to know if these strategies are working.

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ANJALI SHARMA
Students in today's scenario should be encouraged to be international minded as today's world is changing it is the world of inter -dependence  of each other. International mindedness is the need of the hour as it will make the future leaders with remarkable insight into people and the culture across the globe.
It develops concern  for others, sense of connections with others.
Some strategies can help to develop international mindedness among the students are-
Giving more opportunities to read and speak to the learners. It can be developed right from pre school. Technology can play a vital role in it. Students can enjoy story sessions of folk tales of different countries.
Recite Rhymes related to different festivals celebrated in the word. They can be good communicators  and they will be more vocal confident.
Celebrating different festivals and important days with the students.
Let the children learn through exploration not to give direct answers to them but let them explore and respond. It can be a small research as per the level of the kids.
Open discussion on global issues in the class and no one is right or wrong.
Community outreach programs can be arranged where the students can be in touch with the community and can understand the issues beyond the school boundaries and develop respect, empathy and compassion. Rallies  can be a good example of it.
Visits to old age home etc.
Field trips and virtual interactions with the students across the globe can develop international mindedness.
But for all this I need the help of my peers and we can plan the whole curriculum keeping in view all the aspects as it is a long term process.
Student reflection is the tool to understand whether it is working or not or else feedback and then feedforward can be effective tool to know it's success.

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I think the following strategies can be employed to inculcate international mindedness in students:
1. Organising Movie Fests.
Movies are a great way to exhibit the culture of any particular nation. We can always screen movies with subtitles. This way students will have a broader exposure.
2. A linguistic Fare
As the name suggests, students can be given a few lines to memorize in different languages. The children can dress up and sell items (which would be flashcards with the item's name in that particular language.
This will be a colourful display and the students will be motivated to learn a language.
3. Promote Bilingualism
Its the passport to achieve international mindedness. You learn a language and you understand the culture of the country better.
4. My Blog
Students should be motivated to write letters to their friends. Well, in today's day and time , introducing the concept of writing blogs would be a great help to them in exchange of ideas and thoughts.

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To embed International Mindedness in the classroom, its important to collaborate with all the stake holders. The following strategies might help learners to develop International Mindedness
# Story Telling Session- Participation by learners along with their parents / grand parents which will help them learn the core values. With these story sessions, children of diverse mindedness may also learn to listen, communicate and express freely.
# Festival Celebrations- Participation of learners in all festivals conducted in school will make them understand various traditions, customs and cultural beliefs. This will help them develop respect for each other's culture, religion and customs.
# Cuisine Fest- Organizing cuisine fest will help learners of varied background to know more about different cuisines and culture. They will learn to appreciate and develop bonding with each other.

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Exposing them to age appropriate world cinema/shows would lead them to identify with people from different cultures.
Then we can have some related activities:
*Brainstorming session after the show. - How the story could have a different ending? - What would you do if you were in that place instead?
*Each one of them can choose a character and come dressed like her/him one particular day.
We can also have a story/poem recitation taken  from various cultures and invite reflections.
* No, when i plan this it will not be for selected few, So all co teachers in the class gropup will collaborate along with the coordinator and headmistress ma'am.
* It will be a long term strategy because this is one of the learner profiles we are aiming for. This is not a one-time activity. It will lead to various other activities across disciplines where kids will be exposed to international works/researches.
* will invite responses/ have discussions on various international happenings to check if its working.

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Before going to Parents and children for International mindedness, we, as teachers need to have absolute clarity about the same so, here is a video followed by a prior knowledge quiz that how much we all know about the same which is followed by my views towards the International mindedness

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To promote international mindedness in my classroom, I would like to implement few intercultural activities like virtual theatre, virtual debate on the global issues, where students of different countries would participate by sharing their thoughts. This would help them to see and listen to the issues of others and they will be able to brainstorm together. This shall be followed by virtual gallery walk of posters made by different schools of different countries. The closing ceremony may  include a session with larger group to discuss reflection on what they have learnt from this activity and one thing that they would like to know more about that issue. This will give a deep insight about the issues happening in and around the world. This activity will promote the voice and choice of each learner, where they will reach out (with others ) and reach in ( to understand ourselves in relation to others ).

Other activities like circle time, assembly, annual function , exhibitions, community outreach programme with themes will deepen the understanding of international mindedness.

Developing international mindedness is a journey which cannot happen without the support of peers, professionals and all the stake holders.

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Short term activities –

Stories/speaking skill - Story narration with children from around the world invites discussion and celebration of our similarities and differences, they encourage empathy towards others and spark curiosity about the world around us.

Celebrations - Celebrations of different cultures in the classroom and looking at similarities and differences of different culture help children share their experiences.

Music - Music helps children share songs from their own culture and talk about the occasions when these songs are sung.

Long term activities- Incorporate student’s languages into the curriculum, learn how to say “good morning” and “hello” in other languages and greet each other every day in a different language, learn how to sing poems / songs in other languages and sing together, hang up a poster showing how to say hello/thank you in different languages.

Student of the week -   Randomly pick a student every week to become the star student for a whole week. This is a very interesting activity and kids enjoy it a lot. Do different activities every day. For instance, on the first day ask the student to bring pictures of him/her and the whole family and introduce him/herself to other kids. Put the pictures on the wall, and keep them for the whole week. The star student wears a crown and talks about his/her favorite things (color, book, animal, food etc.).

All these activities will help in learning about varied culture and traditions around the world and will enable the learners to think globally.

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International-mindedness can be foster by creating a culture in the school that values the world and culture around the world.

We live in a global village and should respect and live with harmony. International-mindedness is a view of the world in which people see themselves connected to the global community and assume a sense of responsibility to its members. Internationally-mindedness encourage us to appreciate and value the diversity of cultures in the world and make an effort to learn more about them.

All the stakeholders i.e parents, teachers and students together need to work to being  internationally-minded approach to life.

The following strategies can develop international mindedness in students:

Part of the curriculum

The process of encouraging international-mindedness requires a consciously constructed curriculum that guides teachers and students toward using the resources and diverse cultures at hand appropriately.

Linguistic fluency

Language learning is a tool to overcome cultural barriers. Exposure to multiple languages can be incorporated into the program and curriculum in many creative ways.

Open forum

Students should be given opportunities to express their views on international forum on different international issues.

Making students responsible

In fostering global awareness, schools need to create opportunities for students to explore their role and their understanding of global issues outside the classroom context.

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Hello Everyone ,
In so many ways the international mindedness can be promoted in the class. Among all , I think art and culture is the srongest way of doing it.

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International story day, International food day, international cinema, International attire day and many more such events can be arranged and celebrated in the class where children can talk about the similarities and the differences and at the same time can also talk about what they like most about others culture stating the reasons, which will develop respect and and a sense of appreciation. While participating in all such such activities  working in collaboration itself is a beautiful way of fostering international mindedness in the classroom.  

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International story day, International food day, international cinema, International attire day and many more such events can be arranged and celebrated in the class where children can talk about the similarities and the differences and at the same time can also talk about what they like most about others culture stating the reasons, which will develop respect and and a sense of appreciation. While participating in all such such activities  working in collaboration itself is a beautiful way of fostering international mindedness in the classroom.  