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Raising the Bar, Then Supporting Students Over It

Traditional teaching develops students cognitive skills by requiring them to learn and apply new knowledge and skills to discipline-specific tasks. “Global competence” requires cognitive skills as well, but it also requires moral and affective skills and dispositions such as the abilities to empathize, shift perspectives, listen actively, communicate effectively across cultural differences and generate novel solutions to long-standing problems. This workshop will examine how teachers can be more deliberate about planning lessons that develop students' moral and affective capacities alongside their mastery of curricular content. We will analyze models of teaching that give students increased autonomy, inviting them to transfer their learning to situations and problems that are of greater relevance to them.

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