Developing Global Citizenship Through Social Emotional and Growth Mindset Education
Help me give my students access to the tools needed to become more flexible, confident learners through social-emotional learning discussion cards and growth mindset journals to help them reflect on how they fit in a global society.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
How do I begin! My group of students this year is one like no other I have experienced in my 6 years of teaching. They are unique, bright, with BIG personalities.
My students come from Spanish speaking only homes that model traditional Hispanic culture through and through.
They are members of a Title 1 District comprised of a student population with 97% free or reduced-price lunch recipients. Their community at large is small and made of many migrant families. 98% of my students are English Language Learners and know very little about the world around them.
However, these circumstances do not deter their desire to know MORE and engage in the larger presence of outside cultures and trends through school exposure and social media. They are enthusiastic about global news, national politics, and engaging in civil discourse. They often beg me to continue our side conversations, which are rich in supplements for their lack of prior knowledge. Although the opportunity to experience the world and communities around them through technology is a valuable one when done right, process how they fit in that world can be a hard task at their age.
My Project
These materials will give my students the opportunity to talk through their ideas about how they see themselves engaging in a global community.
The social-emotional learning task cards will promote reflective conversations about how my students' ethnic minority identity allows them to engage in a valuable way with other cultures and communities around them.
With the powerful help of the Growth Mindset Journals, my students will be allowed the opportunity to continuously reflect on their growing collaborative abilities.
In the community my students come from, they do not have many opportunities outside of school to discuss how they feel about fitting into a diverse American society. I want to promote them to identify how their diverse backgrounds give them power and allow them to be potential change-makers in a nation needing much healing.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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