Back by popular demand, the Global Seal of Biliteracy is excited to announce our 2nd Edition of the Global Classroom Pair-Share, a new, innovative way to connect classrooms around the globe with a shared focus of learning language and discovering new places and cultures. Our first Global Classroom Pair-Share program took place from October to December in 2022 with multiple real-time and asynchronous classroom interactions. Classrooms collaborated around a monthly theme to complete one or more activities and shared their work with one another. Participating teachers and students were recognized with certificates and Letters of Recognition were sent to their school directors and administrators. The focus of our 2nd Edition Global Classroom Pair-Share is “Celebrating Your Language Journey” in which we will focus on helping learners navigate their own pathway towards second language proficiency.
Classroom Collaboration with Three Monthly Activities
MARCH
“Plan for Adventure” – Develop Learner Autonomy through Self-Reflection and Goal-Setting
For recognition, submit projects by April 15, 2023
APRIL
“Back and Forth” – Social Learning in the Interpersonal Mode
For recognition, submit projects by May 15, 2023
MAY
“Global Awareness” – Celebrating Culture & Diversity in the Presentational Mode
For recognition, submit projects by June 15, 2023
2022 Global Classroom Pair-share
In 2022, Global Classroom Pair-Share connected language-learning classrooms around the world for three months of meaningful, interactive projects. The collaborative activities focused on a monthly theme and included language, content, and information and communicative technology (ICT) goals. In total, 565 students from 13 different countries participated.
Hear what the teachers had to say about the experience below.
“I particularly appreciated the collaboration with my partners, the innovative idea of the project and its short term duration”
“My students and I are glad we had the opportunity to participate. We made friends and enjoyed our meeting very much!”
“It was so educative and interesting for me and my students”
“Nice language adventure for our students”