The+Global+Challenge

=**The Global Challenge**=

How will you make the educational experience that your students receive this year a "global" experience - rich with multiple perspectives and points of view outside of their normal experience? How will your students compete in the global marketplace as contracts for products, ideas and services where victory goes to the fastest, cheapest, most nimble communicators who use intelligence gleaned from a global perspective to win the day?

Idea above from 2009 NECC presentation from Alan November

If the business example does not grab you:

- How about having the author of the book that the first grade is reading in your school connect with the classes to read the story and discuss the characters? - How about inviting a scientist to explain her/his research to your students during a scheduled discussion on the scientific method? - What do you say we invite folks from the census office, city government or the school administration to talk about how they use math in their jobs? - Invite a local performer to share a song with students that they can sing along to and record the performance (with permission of course) to send home for a gift to parents?

Essential question:
- How can you bring the outside world into your classroom to enrich the learning experience that your children have with you this year?