Carla Marschall & Elizabeth Crawford on Education, Creating a Just, Sustainable Future, and Finding a Coauthor on Twitter | Evolve 071
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Carla Marschall & Elizabeth Crawford are educators, curriculum designers, and authors of Worldwise Learning: A Teacher′s Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future, which helps educators create a “Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity” that supports educators in nurturing “Worldwise Learners”: students who both deeply understand and purposefully act when learning about global challenges. Carla has worked in a variety of leadership roles in international schools in Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Singapore over the past ten years and her current role is Director of Teaching & Learning at UWC South East Asia. Elizabeth has taught in a variety of school contexts, including elementary and middle schools in France and the United States and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
- How to connect students to global problems; even in kindergarten
- How to help them understand problems at a systems level
- How to help students act on creating solutions for problems
- How to write a book with someone you just met on Twitter
- and much more...
Full show notes, transcripts, and resources can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/71
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TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:32) - What education needs in 2021
(04:25) - How scripted, top down models are a problem for education
(07:15) - How poverty effects education
(10:22) - What traditional education does really well
(14:05) - What is global competence?
(18:36) - Why its important to connect content personally to a student
(22:30) - What is the 3 parts of the Worldwise Learning Cycle?
(27:59) - Why is systems thinking important for students?
(31:58) - How to create knowledge transfer through real world problems
(33:09) - Examples of the Worldwise Learning Cycle in action
(40:55) - How a teacher can implement this into their practice
(44:38) - How could this be used for adults?
(47:25) - How to write a book with someone you just met on Twitter
(55:03) - How Carla and Elizabeth personally changed their teaching
(58:14) - Call to Action
(59:14) - How to push the world to Evolve
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