Cultural Community Outreach Event

Promoting Global Citizenship

The ABC Middle School strives to offer the best comprehensive education through culturally responsive teaching.

It also provides the most nurturing and supportive learning community involving students, parents, faculty, and administration

It actively teaches the principles of multicultural education that promote global citizenship

The ABC Middle School prepares students intellectually, socially, and emotionally, so that they can assume the important role of a responsible member of society in all its diversity.

1. To provide students with various activities for participation and personal development by creating and providing opportunities to explore and to appreciate the differences in others

2. To foster communication between home and school that upholds the principles of family involvement in the education of our students

3. To encourage respect for diversity by recognizing, sharing and celebrating the gifts which each person brings in our school community

Research suggests that incorporating the following five dimensions can help students to better develop a global awareness :

Perspective consciousness: Recognizing that all individuals have an opinion.

State of the planet dimension: Understanding current events and world issues.

Cross-cultural awareness: Realizing the diversity of ideas in people around the world.

Knowledge of global dynamics: How does the world work, change, and grow?

Awareness of human choices: Identifying human problems and consequences.

(Bousalis-Aliak, 2010, p. 8)

Students will work together to create posters and brochures that advertise the event.

They will communicate with local community and business members:

Distribute student-created brochures to local business

Publish posters and advertisement on and in storefronts

Invite members of the local community to attend the event

Prior to the event night, students partner or create small groups that include a mix of native English speakers and English language learnersThe event begins with a round of auditions and

culminates with an evening of performance with acts that embrace

“an equitable coverage of countries”“accurate, rather than stereotypical information”“embrace student decision-making processes and role-playing activities”

(Bousalis-Aliak, 2010, p. 9)

The language learner’s goals and a feeling of empowerment are essential in the process of second language acquisition (Chartock, 2010, p. 150).

ELL students will collaborate with diverse community members cultural groups by sharing research findings and at the event giving greeting in their native language.

Students will be taking teachings from the classroom and applying them to the real world.

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This event will empower our students and community members because each cultural group will have the opportunity to portray their culture to the best of their ability and understanding. Our goal is to promote student empowerment and pride. Distric students will research different cultural groups and present their findings by portraying the diverse grroups to the best of their understanding.

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By giving students the opportunity to share their culture and collaborate with cultural groups we are preparing students to become active members of society and to increase their global understanding.

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Students will be talking to local business owners for permission to post posters for the event. By doing this it will help students develop socially, emotionally, and put to practice skills learned in the classroom. Through this experience students will learn valuable skilsl that they can apply later in their life.

In this event we will bring together to collaborate the school, students, parents and community.

Where there is parental involvement, English language learners are more successful (Chartock, 2010, p. 153).

As teachers we see daily the need for parental involvement and the difference that it makes in the education of our students. It makes a greater difference in the life of a ELL student, because we can prevent the alienation that sometimes learning two languages brings among the two cultures.

We will be minimizing the level of insecurity that may be among family members to get involved in school activities by providing information in different languages and by being culturally responsive to the specific need of each cultural group.

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The event will foster communication between the parents and school. This will support family involvement which is what we strike to do daily in our ABC schools. By the collaboration of our ABC schools we are proving that we stand firm in our mission to impart knowledge to all the members of the community.

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It is our mission here at ABC schools to have all our students be successful so we can promote a higher level of achievement among all the members.

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Our mission at ABC schools is to have all students accomplish their higher level of achievement by promoting parental involvement we will be making sure that ELL students have the same opportunity. This event will be our door to learn how to care for their specific cultural needs and it will make our teachers more culturally responsive.

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All our staff will find out that parents from different cultures want to get involve in their child's education it just that not knowing the language fluently it may bring insecurities among them, but we hope that this event will cancel these feelings and closed the gap between family and school.

Language provides a window through which we can learn about other cultures (Chartock, 2010, p. 156).

Students will have the opportunity to share their native language with their peers and teachers.

By sharing their language and culture we are promoting appreciation and respect for each other’s differences.

Students will form a list of the different languages spoken in the ABC Middle School and research them and present the information in literacy nights. This information will also be apply to the performances in the main event.

By promoting involvement and awareness we are developing understanding which will make our community and surrounding communities a better place to live.

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This opportunity not only will generate a sense of empowerment and respect for the student but it will help all participants to learn or at least be aware of other languages, which promotes global awareness.

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Here at ABC schools we have a rich diverse cultural groups which we strike every day to promote the learning of diversity, acceptance and respect. This is a great opportunity to have a small immersion in different cultural groups to have something to build in global awareness.

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Our youth is dealing with a message that being different is not acceptable so we want to change this by showing that our differences can bring us together and create appreciation for one another.

Students and all participants will have the opportunity to compare cultures, languages, behaviors, and this will give them the opportunity to analyze differences and similarities which will help them get a global perspective.

Students will have the opportunity to learn or add to their knowledge geography of the world, because by their research they will learn where each country is located in a global map.

In our main event we will display a world map that will have a mark for each of our ABC school students cultural group represented., which will be created by students and parents.

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Our mission is to prepare students with the knowledge that will help them take their part in the the world. By acknowledging differences and similarities among cultural groups students will be equip to be active global citizens.

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By comparing the location of the country to the other countries students will study the resources each cultural group have according to their location in the world.

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This will help form a sense of pride among the different cultural groups members. It will promote global understanding and parental involvement.

Sometimes we can see better our connection to each other by learning that there are issues in our worlds that make us interconnected.

The things that make us different such as our individuality, our culture, our beliefs, perspectives, ideas can help us if we learn to bring them together and value them. It will make us a better nation, better community, better teachers, better students, better family member, better individuals to create a better world.

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We want our youth to learn how to be global citizens that care and are active. Through this event we will help them connect and get involve from a young age so later in their lives they can enjoy and participate in a diverse world.

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The skill of learning how to make connections is invaluable. Our students will learn this skill throgh the participation in this event.

Bousalis-Aliak, R. (2010). Elementary multicultural and global education: A celebration of countries and culture, or just celebration? Ohio Social Studies Review, 46(1), 7-10.

Chartock, R. K. (2010) Strategies and lessons for culturally responsive teaching: A primer for K–12 teachers. Boston, MA: Pearson

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