As the second installment in the week long blog-series on Foundations Unit 1.1: Consider the Perspective of Others, today’s post will briefly summarize the lesson 1.1.1 content and explain a few basic elements of the material in a Foundations lesson.
If you’re not sure how to access the Unit 1 materials, click here for step-by-step access instructions (including screen-shots):
http://excellenceandethics.com/programs/AccessUnit1p1.pdf
Foundations lesson 1.1.1 is titled “Communicating to Connect with Others.” This lesson is all about turning the common perception of what “social networking” is upside down. Today when we hear the words social networking, we immediately think of Facebook, myspace, Linkedin, Foursquare, etc. Technically speaking however, these are actually elements of social media.
Social networking is simply about making connections with people you interact with. For example, when as a teacher we attend a multi-school professional development days, how do we begin to interact with the people around us? For students, when they join a club or team, start a new school year with new classmates, begin a job, or move on to college, how do they start making connections?
Communicating to connect with others is a fundamental element of building a culture of excellence & ethics. This lesson uses the Power2Achieve Social Networking Tool to teach students real strategies that will help them build and deepen connections and relationships with others in school, work, and beyond.
On the lesson 1.1.1 webpage, which you can get to by clicking on the Lesson 1.1.1 link when you get to the Unit 1.1 homepage, you will find the following:
- Lesson plan
- Student Materials
- PDF of the P2A Social Networking Tool
- P2A Social Networking Profile
- Visual Learning Resource {Slides} (these are an optional instructional resource we encourage people to use)
- Unit Videos
- Extension Activities (we will be adding these throughout the fall)
All of these are materials you may want to use as you teach this lesson on Communicating to Connect with Others.
Read through these materials and think about how you might teach this lesson in your own educational setting (by the way, we’ve got people using these Tools in classrooms ranging from K-12, with athletes of all ages and competition levels, with school faculty and staff, with parents, and even with businesses…so think creatively)
That’s all I’ll get into in this post, but tomorrow I’ll highlight lesson 1.1.2 and will take some time to explain the actual format of the lesson plan and other materials.
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Thanks, and see you back here tomorrow for lesson 1.1.2!
