Thinking Globally Acting Globally

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Thinking Globally Acting Globally

• Parents Weekend Workshop
• Friday, October 6, 2006
• Conference Room, 215-315

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Global Initiatives

• Fays International Student Program (ISP)
• Fay in Taiwan
• Fay in India
• Fay in Vietnam
• Fay in the Philippines
• Fay in Canada
• Fay in France
• Fay in Rome
• Fay in Spain
• Fay WorldClass

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Fay Schools Mission

• Fay School is committed to educating the whole
  child, to his or her fullest potential, in
  preparation for a productive and fulfilled life.

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Fay Schools Mission

• in the world beyond our campus.

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Fay Schools Vision Statement

• To lead the world in elementary and middle
  school education.

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The Internet and Globalization

• In 2003, global on line commerce exceeded 1
  trillion.
• In 2004, global on line ad spending topped 33
  billion.
• In 2005, we topped 900 million Internet users
  worldwide.
• American Fortune 500 Companies currently earn
  30-65 of their revenues from international
  markets.

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Fays ISPhttp//www.fayschool.org/isp.html

• Open to International Students since WWII
• ISP Established in 1988, successor to American
  Language Academy at Fay, 1978-1988
• 15-20 of our Students
• Countries Represented in 2006/07 Bahamas,
  Belgium, China, Dominica, Hong Kong, India,
  Japan, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines,
  Russia, Rwanda, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
  Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam.

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Fay in Taiwan
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Why Chinese?

• One out of every five people
• in the world speaks Chinese.

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Why Chinese?

• Chinese Americans
• are among the
• fastest growing
• minority
• groups in the United
• States.

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Why Chinese?

• By 2007, Chinese
• will top English as
• the most-used
• language on the
• Internet.

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Why Chinese?

• With a GDP real growth rate exceeding 8 over
• the past 25 years, most economists anticipate
  that
• this rate will continue over the next few years
  as
• China continues to be a major stimulant in the
• global economy.

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Why Chinese?

• More than 400 Fortune 500 companies have
• operations in China.
• Massports introduction of COSCO, the
• largest Chinese shipping company, created
• 9000 new jobs for Massachusetts.

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Why Chinese?

• Chinese is considered
• one of several
• critical languages in
• the U.S. from the
• perspective of
• national security and
• interest.

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Why Chinese?

• The United States is now Chinas second largest
  trading
• partner and China will soon be the second largest
  trading
• partner of the U.S.
• Two-way trading between China and the U.S. grew
  from
• 33 billion in 1992 to over 230 billion in 2004.
• Chinese consumer markets present major
  opportunities for
• U.S. exporters and investors

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Building Relationships with China and Taiwan

• Regular visits to Taiwan since 1987
• Regular visits to China since 2004
• Student/Teacher visit to Taipei last year

Fay in Taipei, Fuhsing School, Taipei, 2006
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Building Relationships with China and Taiwan

• Possible student trip to Taiwan in March
• Mr. White will visit Taiwan this year
• Saturday Mandarin I and Mandarin II Classes as
  supplementary/optional
• Mandarin to Fulfill Language Requirement in
  2007/08?

Fay Chinese students in China Town, Boston, MA
Steve and Maggie White in the Forbidden City,
Beijing, China
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Chinese as a Course of Study

• Chinese is taught in more MA schools
• than in any other state, but it is still
• very low relative to demand.
• Chinese language has, this year, just
• become an Advanced Placement option
• for students in secondary school.

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Chinese as a Course of Study

• What language will it pull from?
• Will students be at a disadvantage applying to
  secondary schools?
• What are the pitfalls/resources as we implement?
• What are the implications for students with
  learning differences?

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Chinese as a Course of Study Graphophonemic
characters vs. Ideographic characters
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China and Chinese are Everywhere!

• Thanks to Chinese art, films, cuisine, martial
  arts, acupuncture and school world history
  courses, Chinese culture is becoming more
  mainstreamed into the American way of life.

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Fay in Indiahttp//www.velammalinternational.com/

• The Velammal
• International School
• Relationship since
• 2003
• Chris Schoberl visited in
• 2003
• Cecilia Owens visited in
• 2005

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Fay in India

• The State of Tamilnadu
• In the city of Chennai, formerly Madras

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Fay in India

• Memo of
• Understanding to be
• signed
• formalizing
• relationship with the
• Velammal
• International School

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Fay/VIS PartnershipMemo of Understanding

• The FAY faculty will visit TVIS for up to 2
  months, at a convenient time for them during the
  year, to train TVIS teachers in the latest
  teaching methods followed at FAY. They will also
  interact with the students.
• TVIS will depute some of their teachers to FAY
  for a first-hand observation of classroom
  interactions at FAY.
• FAY faculty will suggest possible ways of
  incorporating curricular improvements in the
  existing Indian curriculum at 4th to 8th grades.
• Student exchanges will be encouraged so as to
  enhance students learning and their preparation
  for global challenges through experiencing
  different cultural environments.

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• A Fay School/
• Velammal International School
• Partnership

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MoU Share our Pedagogy

• Teaching for Understanding
• Bloom/Gardner
• Understanding Performances
• Variety of Assessment
• Types

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MoU Promote Student Exchange

• Visits between Schools
• Academic Years Staggered (June-April)
• Curriculum of the world Citizen

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MoU Develop Professional
Relationships

• Professional Satisfaction
• Professional Growth
• Attract, Recruit, Retain

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Cultural Exchange

• Awareness of the other
• Appreciation for Life Beyond our Campuses
• Perspective If you want to know about the
  water, dont ask the fish.

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Why India?

• By the time our
• students
• graduate from
• college, at least
• 30 of them will
• be working for a
• Indian owned
• company.

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Fay in Vietnamhttp//www.ssischool.org/

• Saigon South
• International
• School
• Founded by Mr.
• and Mrs.
• Lawrence Ting
• Relationship
• since 2001

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Fay in Vietnam

• Curriculum Sharing
• Teacher Exchange
• Mr. White sits on the Education Board

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Fay in the Philippineshttp//www.beaconschool.ph/

• The Beacon School in
• Metro Manila
• Relationship since
• 2004
• Founded by Andrew Locsin,
• Fay class of 1977
• NAIS 20/20 Challenge Finalists!

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NAIS 20/20 ChallengePartnership with Beacon
School
Education for All, 2006
Loss of Ecosystem and Biodiversity, 2007
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Fay in Montreal,Quebec A Long Weekend in Mid
April

• Language immersion is the most
• effective way learn a language because
• it allows you to interact in a more
• realistic way. Immersion programs
• enable students to live the language
• rather than learn about it in a quasi
• real language environment like the
• classroom setting. Through this rich
• opportunity, Students experience the
• culture and the idiosyncrasies of the
• people who speak the language thus
• making it a very meaningful
• experience.
• Alina Argueta, Chair, World Languages

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Fay in France
Fay in France
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Fay in FranceProvence Student Exchange

• School Externat Saint Joseph
• Town of Ollioules by Toulon
• Ten students from Fay participate in this
  exchange and travel to Marseille in mid March.
• They live with a host family and attend school
  with their French pals
• Ten French students come to Fay to attend school
  and live with Fay families for week in mid April

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Fay in Spain
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Fay in Spain

• Of special interest
• to our students
• studying Spanish.
• Possible trip in mid
• June.

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Fay In Italy
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Fay in Italy

• Of special interest to our students studying
  Ancient Greek and Roman History.
• Possible trip in Mid March.

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What does this all mean for your children?

• Q What is the best environment in which to
  discover a childs fullest potential?

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A The one that affords the greatest access to a
world of options and experiences.

• As one common answer to the question, Why do we
  educate? many
• would offer, To prepare students for life in the
  real world. This
• meant something different to my father and me,
  than it will for my own
• children. Where the emphasis used to be put on
  real, as if to suggest
• a certain artificiality of school life, and
  world was more of a
• euphemism to suggest a generic geography beyond
  the
• classroom, those who design curriculum today MUST
  emphasize
• world, and focus on the primacy of the true
  international community
• we are becoming, because that is precisely where
  our most important
• lessons will be learned, our lives will be lived,
  and our business will be
• transacted, in classrooms and offices without
  walls.
• From World Partners in Education, Inaugural
  Address, Velammal
• International School, 2003, C. Schoberl.

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A One that presents a world of options and
experiences.WorldClass
Education Unfettered by SchoolingA
Proposal Submitted byDr. Christopher A.
Schoberl
http//www.fayschool.org/worldclass/home.html
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Fay IS an International School

• Since 2001 Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil,
  Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa
  Rica, Dominica, El Salvador, France, Hong Kong,
  India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Nigeria,
  Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia,
  Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
  Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,
  Venezuela, and Vietnam.

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• Worldwide Alumni Networks
• November 12, 2006, First Asian Alumni Summit,
  Tai-Chung, Taiwan Mr. White hosts 20 Fay alums
  from East and Southeast Asia
• The sun never sets on Fay
• Faculty/Student Travel
• Teacher/Student Exchanges
• Bringing the world into the classroom
• International interests and experiences
• Faculty Enrichment Fund Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,
  Botswana, Japan, Montreal, England/Scotland,
  France, Nova Scotia, Mexico, Madagascar, Costa
  Rica, Brussels, Amsterdam, Prague, Germany,
  Italy, Spain
• What can we learn about the world that will help
  us lead the world?

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Thank you for your time!