Collaboration

Communication between Cultures:

 WHAT - The project is going to be a Pen-Pal Project about school systems in the students' own country and in another country. It's going to be set up so each student get a pen-pal from the other school, which they will exchange letters with back and forth. 

The students are going to learn about their own country's school system, and attain new information about a different school system.

We chose this subject because it's a great way of using communicating skills for English, and it may be interesting for the students to learn about how the school system work in a different culture.

The Pen-Pal Project is suitable for international collaborative work, because there exists a multitude of different education cultures around the world, and being able to identify your own system, it will be easier to meet and understand a different education culture.

The two teachers are going to arrange the amount of letters the students will write, but it HAS to include the following 4 letters at a minimum:
-Introduction Letter
-Letter about own school system
-Letter with questions about the sister school's system
-Postcard from own country as a wrap-up for the project period
-Email with pictures from the exhibition

The project is going to take 6-8 weeks - Students are being divided into small groups to exchange ideas about what to ask, how to ask, and why to ask. The students will write and exchange letters on an individual basis, but will ongoingly confere with their project group to exchange ideas.

Ultimately the students will do a group presentation about the school system in their sister school's country.

By sharing the ideas and information through letters with another school from a different country, the students can then learn more about education cultures and improve their written communication skills for English.

After the presentations they will create a portfolio with the letters and pictures they've exchanged throughout the project period. This portfolio they get to keep, bring home and share with their families.

In this Project the English Teacher from each class will have to participate and the students in the English class - Also the parents will probably help with the letter writings along the way.

The Project will start in earl-mid January and end in February.

to be continued