Hello everybody and welcome to my blog!

My name is Helene and I am from Austria.
From February till the end of May I study as an exchange student in Copenhagen, where I am attending an international course module called "Globalization and Professional Change".
“We can only teach our students to think with a global perspective when we as educators do so ourselves.”
Before taking part on this module I didn't know a lot about globalisation.
In this module I get the chance to learn a lot and to broaden my mind, to become a better teacher in the future.
Feel free to read and follow my blog and to make comments if you want!

Yours sincerely,

Helene Geissberger

To deliver insight into the course... a few pictures

First lesson: Globalization: processes, awareness, communication

What are the challenges to teachers working with children in a globalized world?

 My group (Emma, Sarah, Anders and me) worked together and wrote and painted a group poster:

 

 

Second lesson: Sustainability: Global and local action

 

We tried to find out which is the most  economic way  to boil 1 litre of water:

-) Experiment 1: water boiler

-) Experiment 2: coffee machine

-) Experiment 3: hot plate, pot

 

My group had to do the third experiment:

 

 

 

 

Third lesson: Identity: Transnational migration and multicultural context

With various classroomactivities we found out a lot about or own identity and about the diversity in our coursegroup.

 

If you want to read more click by my sites on "Identity".

Fourth lesson: Tolerance: Being empathic and open minded

We used the string-web-method as a tool to develop a common language in our group.
Everybody wrote one word on a sheet, which describes the culture shock they got when they were abroad. We built a circle. One startet and told the others about her/his culture shock. Then we gave the string to a person with a similar word. So we all connected our culture shocks.

 

Fifth lesson: Innovation: Designing the Future

Today we worked with Lilian on "Innovation".
All the groups tried to invent a new method for working on globalization with children.
Therefor we collected a lot of ideas on Post-its before we chose one to prepare for the workshop in two weeks.

Sixth lesson: Collaboration: Across borders

Today we worked with Birte Peulicke on the topic collaboration.

She showed us which Portals are available and useful for us:

• The Image Portal
• e-Twinning

Afterwards our group worked out an own collaboration projekt.
We startet with this mind-map:

When you click on "Collaboration" you can find our whole pen-pal project.