Teacher Workshop for the Upcoming Fall 2020 Semester

On September 19th and 20th, Dr. Eunhee Jung, founder of IVECA International Virtual Schooling, led Korean teachers through their professional development training. The teacher training course provided the theoretical foundation and practical strategies to integrate IVECA into classroom activities. The training also emphasized the importance of building a global community and motivated teachers to the values and vision of global citizenship education for all.

Teachers were introduced to the IVECA Virtual Classroom where the students will find connections to their IVECA friends and share throughout the semester. The tour guided teachers through the engaging 21st century learning platform that utilizes a teachers room, learning blocks, and discussion blocks for a global blended learning experience. The synchronous and asynchronous learning environment prepared for the students and led by their teachers will lay the foundation for successful global citizenship education.

Dr. Jung and the teachers discussed the most effective models to promote engagement in Global Citizenship Education while equipping students with self-awareness, skills, language proficiency, knowledge, and a positive attitude. The teachers were prepared to guide students through activities to educate them for future jobs and technologies, and to solve problems for a better world.

IVECA Global Facilitator, Ms. Helen O’Neal, demonstrated her seamless integration of the IVECA curriculum into a school curriculum and daily classroom activities. The teacher training concluded with practical and hands-on experience to empower the teachers to build a meaningful curriculum and classroom activities for their students in the upcoming Fall 2020 IVECA Semester.

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Young Global Citizens Make the Future of the World

The IVECA Summer Camp concluded this week with the Global Virtual Roundtable event involving 11 roundtable sessions. Students from across the world joined expert panelists in a roundtable discussion on a variety of STEAM topics. The students and panelists discussed projects aimed at reaching the United Nations Sustainable Development goals.

Themes of the roundtables included public diplomacy, service-learning and community engagement, air quality, and building design. Student panelists presented on themes such as branding a nation through the soft power, trans-disciplinary approaches to solving the SDGs, technologies to address air quality problems, and addressing climate change and energy use in sustainable housing.

Students from the Korea Science Academy (KSA) of KAIST partnered with their IVECA friends from the United States, Morocco, Brazil, and Guatemala throughout the program. Students had the opportunity to communicate with their partners through live virtual classes and in the IVECA Virtual Classroom to develop their roundtable presentations. Distinguished instructors from prestigious universities, scientific research centers including NASA, and international diplomatic organizations, guided the students through lectures and group activities aimed at addressing the UN SDGs. Finally, the panelists met during the virtual roundtable event to present alongside expert panelists and moderators in front of a public audience.

IVECA team was happy to receive much positive feedback from the instructors, mentors, and the students:

“It was amazing to spend these 11 days with you! It was a unique opportunity and certainly opened my eyes to many other possibilities. I learned a lot of incredible things in this course, so thank you Ambassador and Dr. Kotsakis for all the learnings. And, obviously, to my KSA friends, it was a pleasure to know you” -- a student from Brazil.

"We have had a wonderful time following the course, and we have all learned deeply from this. Public diplomacy and soft power are two very significant factors in today's connected society… Having known what they are, there is no doubt that this course will help us all in the future and will likely dictate our success." -- a KSA student from Korea.

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IVECA’s Global Virtual Roundtable

On July 29th and 30th, IVECA Center for International Virtual Schooling will be hosting their Global Virtual Roundtable. Students from across the globe in South Korea, The United States, Guatemala, and Brazil have been meeting virtually with their instructors for the IVECA Global Virtual Summer Camp to prepare their presentations.

In addition to creating new international friendships with their IVECA partners, students from the Korea Science Academy of KAIST have been able to collaborate and exchange ideas to learn about each other's cultures and worldviews. Students will join the virtual roundtable panel with experts in public diplomacy, sustainable development, sustainable housing, and air quality.

The roundtable discussion will be led by industry and academic leaders across a variety of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) topics in the field of UN Sustainable Development Goals. The roundtable panelists will contribute to solving local and global issues through collaboration with KSA-KAIST students and overseas youth.

IVECA has facilitated this intensive summer course for the future global STEAM leaders to develop their skills in global citizenship. The collaboration between students and instructors will develop projects to contribute to a sustainable future.

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