U.S.-China Innovative Partnership in Elementary Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session will describe, document and analyze an international collaboration between the United States and China. Both project and inquiry based learning and performance assessment was introduced by American teachers teaching Chinese students from four different schools in Beijing and four schools in other cities in China. The innovative idea was to show real life examples. Chinese scholars observed and then questioned the teacher and the ideas shown. The symposium will consist of four different speakers in the new partnership. Issues addressed will be: the conceptual thought behind the global education partnership; the power and challenges of school-university partnerships; how 21st century skills and innovative instructional practices connect to performance assessments; and how school-university partnerships connect to international colleagues.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Susan Hildreth Bardouille Charles, Santa Clara University

Papers

• Global Education: Collaboration and Innovation - Guoli Liang, Global Educational Community

• School/University Partnerships: Negotiating International Culture and Context Differences in Elementary Schools - Ann Lieberman, Stanford University

• Global Collaboration for Promoting Innovations in Teaching and Learning: Using Evidence From Performance Assessments - Susan E. Schultz, Stanford University

• Expanding the Boundaries of a University-School Partnership Through Global Collaboration to Improve Teaching - Jennie Rakestraw, Winthrop University

Discussant

• Andrew Hargreaves, Boston College