Capstone Action Plan - FA8

Thinking globally and acting globally gives us the opportunity to

• broaden out to a variety of issues that are both global and give us the opportunity to connect to China 
• explore issues such as sustainability, gender issues, equity, poverty, etc. 
• create an action plan.

• Student directed student centered 
• Truly contextualized…using our Chinese context
• Promotes student leadership
• Fully immersive (deep understanding through experience) in whatever issue they are trying to understand
• Challenge kids to think beyond the context of the classroom
• Asks for action
• Impactful on the local community
• Tries to address a real-world issue by educating and/or attempting to solve the issue
• Inquiry drives the process for students
• Middle School is a key time to instill core values in students (global citizenship, empathy, values, ethics).

• Necessitate the integration of curricular and process skills in grades 7 and 8 
• Prepare them for research driven fieldwork in HS 
• Students will have a positive impact on the community and the students will have a positive impact from interacting with the community 
• Able to form connections between subjects, cross subject skill set 
• Student engagement and ownership 
• Deep and clearly displayed intercultural understanding – culturally literate 
• Able to communicate and understand clear message related to the topic in Chinese 
• Students build long-term sustainable relationships, partnerships, and network of resources within the community 
• Ability for student to self-direct their learning 
• Students to realize they can make a difference – self efficacy 
• Changes student attitudes or behaviors 
• Students understand there are large disparities between urban and rural China

• Inquire – select topic and questions explore – investigative process, research, interviews, data 
• act – create, do, share 
• In the investigative process – gather data from existing and reliable sources and generate their own data through surveys. Use of data visualization to support their ideas. Use of data for prediction. 
• Training on how to be strong collaborators in order to display the mastery of these skills in the Capstone
• Exhibition of learning (Student led fair or conference with other students as part of the Capstone)
• Use of experts to support their work (e.g. internship, partnerships, service learning, volunteerism) - Authentic engagements with relevant experts or organizations
• Mentorship relationship between facilitator and student * Reflection is a core experience of the Capstone