At the beginning of the plans for this global project, I was utterly overwhelmed. It's easy for me to get frustrated with my students when they feel overwhelmed with a creative project that gives them a lot of freedom. However, this project helped me gain perspective and reminded me just how terrifying all that freedom can be. There were so many different options and ideas floating through my head but my teammate, Laura, was great at thinking of a cohesive idea that I immediately liked and agreed with. Laura's idea was to create a way for students to exchange and share idioms that are particular to their culture and location. I thought this was a brilliant idea because language barriers are so prevalent around the world and it's something that I experience firsthand with my students... teaching British Literature to a bunch of eighteen year olds is always a fun challenge. However, Laura's idea really made the subject of the project approachable to students and fun, something that I have found to be integral to teaching students, regardless of their age. Laura and I teach the same grade and subject, and happily work together in the same school so it wasn't an issue for us to think of an age range and demographic to focus on for this project. The focus of our project is for students to examine their own idioms used in their culture and trace their origin. Where do these idioms come from? What social or historical contexts are connected to these idioms? By examining the idioms we use and other cultures, students will be able to learn about different cultures across the globe from the comfort of their own classroom or home.
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