In my defense, I spent most of August through October completing requirements for my website on global education. A few new things are going to be added to the site over the next couple of weeks as I prepare to present at the SC Middle School Conference in February. You can access it here: Wildcats Globalized
In the classroom, I've been focusing on a few things this year including the following: technology use (with purpose), vocabulary strategies, and map skills.
I'm fortunate to teach about a variety of cultures, belief systems, and governments in my World History class. This year, I have 4 "regular" classes and 2 "advanced." Much of my time has been focused on developing an "advanced" curriculum since this is the first year we've had this track at my school. It has definitely been a learning process.
Much of the first semester was spent of developing map/ geography skills. Many of my students couldn't label the seven continents on a map and also had difficultly finding North America. I knew we'd have our work cut out for us.
Already, students have completed several mapping assignments. Most are drawn/ traced by hand and labelled according to a requirement sheet. Two maps we've done this year are pictured.
