Ms. Shay GOING GLOBAL at the Ronald Reagan Museum

Ms. Shays students are heading to the Ronald Reagan museum in late February, and check out the amazing connection to the global competencies

This field trip not only teaches leadership skills, research skills, communicating skills, collaborating skills and presentation skills, but showcases each global competency.

....written by Ms. Shay


This project is considered a class mini project which all students will be participating in...

1) Investigating the world - We will be researching and investigating the Presidents and their life styles. Specifically how they were/are leaders. We will be gathering information on the field trip as well as using resources in the classrooms.

2) Weighing perspectives - We will be comparing and contrasting different presidents. We will weigh different perspectives with how we would lead our country. We will be talking about leadership and the responsibilities of being a leader of our nation and how this affects the entire world. We will present our ideas and listent to others about their thoughts and perspectives. (If time...we will investigate leaders from around the world)

3) Communicating ideas - We will be making presentations to each other as well as other classes. We will be writing a letter to our current president about what we think it is to be a leader and what skills are important to be a good leader. We may even offer strategies and solutions on some U.S or world problems.

4) Taking Action - This is two fold. First, one student completed a project on Presidents. He wants our class to go to this museum so that they can learn from the museum as much as he did. This is to inspire other students to create field trips as part of their projects as well as to inspire others to be leaders. He is asking 5th graders to be leaders and this student has created a scavenger hunt for his peers to go through as they tour the library.


AMAZING, MS. SHAY. Your students are trendsetters in the area of global competencies. Aveson, keep an eye out for this project work, and feel free to get involved wherever and whenever you can.




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