Completed projects
On this page you can see some of the projects that have been carried out between the schools within The United Global Education network. Here you can read about visits between the schools, virtual projects, conferences between teachers from the network, collaborations and much more.
November 5th 2021
Fourth virtual conference in The United Global Education Network
On Friday November the fifth, the fourth virtual conference in our network of international partner schools was held on Zoom. It was hosted by Tabor Academy and Rysensteen Gymnasium with representatives from 13 different schools participating.
After the conference was opened by Rick DaSilva from Tabor Academy and Anders Schultz and Mads Blom from Rysensteen Gymnasium, Tony Jaccaci from Tabor Academy reflected upon what makes a "good" student. He said that these values in his opinion are very local, and they differ between countries, schools and even classrooms. Nevertheless, he asked the participants to expand their view and ask themselves during the conference: What makes a good student globally? And accordingly, a good global citizen?
Before the workshops, the participants shared succes stories from their schools. This created a great opportunity to share ideas and learn from each other.
The workshops centered around the results from a survey conducted in the schools in the UGEN network asking the teachers, which competencies/qualities they find are the most important to support in a student. In the first workshop, the attendees talked about why they had prioritized the different competencies as they had. In the second workshop, the participants talked about which student qualities they would like to be better at supporting in their school system and teaching approach, and how we in the UGEN network can help each other to be better at supporting the development of the "good student."
In one of the groups, we all agreed that we really value the ability to think critically in a student - not just as an important competence in class but in the world today, where they are constantly bombarded with information - as well as fake news - that they need to be able to sort and assess. We also discussed how empathy is key to not only the good and collaborating student, but also to the global citizen who wants to look beyond national borders and make positive changes in the world. We also debated how to achieve deep learning, and we thought it would be a good idea to include our students and also have them debate "the good student" as well as "the good teacher" - let them talk about how they learn best, how they encourage that in themselves and each other and and how their teachers best support them in doing that.
In another group, we talked about how we could improve our communication with one another through a better understanding of what constitutes a good student. The teachers discussed our abilities to encourage our students and inspire them to be collaborating, hard working and critical thinking, but at the same time we talked about the stress and challenges in mental health that affects our students around the world. The representatives inspired each other across the countries, but on the issues of mental health, we agreed that this was a challenge where we didn't have all the necessary tools to solve the problem. It would be interesting to have a conference about this subject in the future
All in all a very fruitful and enjoyable meeting.
Fourth virtual conference in The United Global Education Network
On Friday November the fifth, the fourth virtual conference in our network of international partner schools was held on Zoom. It was hosted by Tabor Academy and Rysensteen Gymnasium with representatives from 13 different schools participating.
After the conference was opened by Rick DaSilva from Tabor Academy and Anders Schultz and Mads Blom from Rysensteen Gymnasium, Tony Jaccaci from Tabor Academy reflected upon what makes a "good" student. He said that these values in his opinion are very local, and they differ between countries, schools and even classrooms. Nevertheless, he asked the participants to expand their view and ask themselves during the conference: What makes a good student globally? And accordingly, a good global citizen?
Before the workshops, the participants shared succes stories from their schools. This created a great opportunity to share ideas and learn from each other.
The workshops centered around the results from a survey conducted in the schools in the UGEN network asking the teachers, which competencies/qualities they find are the most important to support in a student. In the first workshop, the attendees talked about why they had prioritized the different competencies as they had. In the second workshop, the participants talked about which student qualities they would like to be better at supporting in their school system and teaching approach, and how we in the UGEN network can help each other to be better at supporting the development of the "good student."
In one of the groups, we all agreed that we really value the ability to think critically in a student - not just as an important competence in class but in the world today, where they are constantly bombarded with information - as well as fake news - that they need to be able to sort and assess. We also discussed how empathy is key to not only the good and collaborating student, but also to the global citizen who wants to look beyond national borders and make positive changes in the world. We also debated how to achieve deep learning, and we thought it would be a good idea to include our students and also have them debate "the good student" as well as "the good teacher" - let them talk about how they learn best, how they encourage that in themselves and each other and and how their teachers best support them in doing that.
In another group, we talked about how we could improve our communication with one another through a better understanding of what constitutes a good student. The teachers discussed our abilities to encourage our students and inspire them to be collaborating, hard working and critical thinking, but at the same time we talked about the stress and challenges in mental health that affects our students around the world. The representatives inspired each other across the countries, but on the issues of mental health, we agreed that this was a challenge where we didn't have all the necessary tools to solve the problem. It would be interesting to have a conference about this subject in the future
All in all a very fruitful and enjoyable meeting.
May 31st, 2021
Third virtual conference in The United Global Education Network
On Monday May 31st, we were pleased to hold the third virtual conference in our network of international partner schools. The conference was co-hosted by Tabor Academy and Rysensteen Gymnasium and a total of 13 schools from all over the world participated in the conference, which was held on Zoom.
The conference was opened with a presentation by professor at the University of Copenhagen, Marie Højlund Roesgaard, on How the way we test and assess our students influences what they can and will know. You can see the presentation by following this link.
The central point of the conference was to compare and talk about our exam systems and the methods we use to assess and evaluate students in each country and school in the network. In the conference's first workshop, there were presentations on the exam and assessment system of different countries. You can see these presentations by following the links below:
Exam and assessment system - Canada
Exam and assessment system - Denmark
Exam and assessment system - Germany
Exam and assessment system - the US
Exam and assessment system - the US (English)
After the first workshop, Jonathan Sirois and Rick DaSilva held a presentation on educating students to be global citizens and how empathy is a key ingredient in this education. You can see their presentation by following this link.
In the conference's second workshop, the talks centered around global competencies and how we assess and evaluate the students' acquirement of these throughout their years in school. It is our goal that we in the future might create a common system in the network for assessing and evaluating students' global competencies.
During the conference, we also followed up on the many collaborations we have seen between the schools in the network since our last conference and which we hope to have arrange more of after the summer.
January 20th, 2021
Virtual meeting between The University of Toronto School and Rysensteen Gymnasium
January 20th, when it was morning in Toronto and afternoon in Denmark, 2.e from Rysensteen met with 22 Canadian students on Zoom. They talked about Canada as a multicultural society, what it was like living in a so called « post-national country » and whether the young generation thought about it at all. The Danes were obviously also asked about Denmark, and had to consider how you actually present your country and culture to someone who knows next to nothing about it.. But there was also time to just talk teenage stuff and share experiences of what life is like during a pandemic, and they found that they weren’t so different from each other and just enjoyed chatting as peers. Afterwards we were all excited and happy about the encounter, and the Canadian teacher likewise reported that : her students really enjoyed speaking with the Danish students, and every one of them said that they would like to meet again if they had the chance. They said that they learned about how those in other countries see Canada, what multiculturalism looks like in Denmark, and about being a youth in Denmark. All in all definitely a good experience.
Virtual meeting between The University of Toronto School and Rysensteen Gymnasium
January 20th, when it was morning in Toronto and afternoon in Denmark, 2.e from Rysensteen met with 22 Canadian students on Zoom. They talked about Canada as a multicultural society, what it was like living in a so called « post-national country » and whether the young generation thought about it at all. The Danes were obviously also asked about Denmark, and had to consider how you actually present your country and culture to someone who knows next to nothing about it.. But there was also time to just talk teenage stuff and share experiences of what life is like during a pandemic, and they found that they weren’t so different from each other and just enjoyed chatting as peers. Afterwards we were all excited and happy about the encounter, and the Canadian teacher likewise reported that : her students really enjoyed speaking with the Danish students, and every one of them said that they would like to meet again if they had the chance. They said that they learned about how those in other countries see Canada, what multiculturalism looks like in Denmark, and about being a youth in Denmark. All in all definitely a good experience.
December 11th, 2020
First virtual conference in The United Global Education Network
The first virtual conference with representation from 14 schools from South Korea, China, India, Russia, Uganda, Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Argentina, Canada, the United States and Denmark was successfully held in the end of 2020!
At the conference it was discussed how the school network can build on the virtual cultural understanding course that students from all partner schools participated in in November. Many creative ideas were presented, including ideas on how to create a multilateral climate course with small documentary videos, to come on virtual visits to each other's cities and collaborate on Ted-talk based projects. The realizable ideas will be implemented in the network during the spring.
At the conference, it was also discussed how the network can move even closer together and learn from each other's ideas and practices both pedagogically and academically, but also on the schools' cultural and managerial levels. The basis for this exchange of ideas will be virtual conferences with teachers, leaders and students approx. every other month where one or more of the above topics are discussed. In this way, the network hopes to take the first step towards establishing a global, school think tank.
First virtual conference in The United Global Education Network
The first virtual conference with representation from 14 schools from South Korea, China, India, Russia, Uganda, Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Argentina, Canada, the United States and Denmark was successfully held in the end of 2020!
At the conference it was discussed how the school network can build on the virtual cultural understanding course that students from all partner schools participated in in November. Many creative ideas were presented, including ideas on how to create a multilateral climate course with small documentary videos, to come on virtual visits to each other's cities and collaborate on Ted-talk based projects. The realizable ideas will be implemented in the network during the spring.
At the conference, it was also discussed how the network can move even closer together and learn from each other's ideas and practices both pedagogically and academically, but also on the schools' cultural and managerial levels. The basis for this exchange of ideas will be virtual conferences with teachers, leaders and students approx. every other month where one or more of the above topics are discussed. In this way, the network hopes to take the first step towards establishing a global, school think tank.
November 6th, 2020
Rysensteen Gymnasium from Copenhagen, Denmark hosted a virtual collaboration with 13 of her partnerschools.
Even though the Corona-pandemic has put our GCP-travels on hold, we were fortunately able to organize a virtual event on the Global Citizenship Day for our 3rd year-students in collaboration with our 13 partner schools across 5 different continents. On this day, our 3rd year students met virtually with the students from their partner schools on Zoom. Here they had the opportunity to get to know each other and talk about the pandemic's influence on their day-to-day lives.
Against the backdrop of countries' handling of of the pandemic, the students discussed cultural differences, both between their own country and the partner country as well as internally in both countries. The students rounded the event off with reflections on culture and prejudice and hopefully ended up with a closer bond to their partner students.
Rysensteen Gymnasium from Copenhagen, Denmark hosted a virtual collaboration with 13 of her partnerschools.
Even though the Corona-pandemic has put our GCP-travels on hold, we were fortunately able to organize a virtual event on the Global Citizenship Day for our 3rd year-students in collaboration with our 13 partner schools across 5 different continents. On this day, our 3rd year students met virtually with the students from their partner schools on Zoom. Here they had the opportunity to get to know each other and talk about the pandemic's influence on their day-to-day lives.
Against the backdrop of countries' handling of of the pandemic, the students discussed cultural differences, both between their own country and the partner country as well as internally in both countries. The students rounded the event off with reflections on culture and prejudice and hopefully ended up with a closer bond to their partner students.