THE MADEIRA SCHOOL

An example of a school becoming global

Critical ThinkingCollaborationAdaptability InitiativeEffective CommunicationAccessing and Analyzing InformationCuriosity and ImaginationEmpathyCreativity

Exposure: Exposing students to assemblies, exhibits, and field trips.

Assimilation: Creating projects, assemblies and exhibits, learning culture and language in and out of the classroom, visiting different places and mingling with diverse populations.

Integration: Making the other culture part of your own, being able to live , work and think like another culture does. Empathize and be able to walk in someone else’s shoes.

SpanishFrenchMandarinLatin/Italian

Activities and Projects

Spanish II: Altar to Lucy

Madeira (School Founder)

SKILLS DEVELOPED

Critical Thinking- Can we adapt these altars in a new culture- How can we execute the project? Making sure all symbols are represented

Collaboration- class worked together to research and execute altar

Adaptability- adapting the altar to a figure they are familiar with

Initiative- finding the materials

Communication- presentation to the school visually and orally during an assembly

CONT.

Accessing and Analyzing-Internet searches/ Archival search

Curiosity and Imagination-

Looking for the right info and materializing it/ cutting/ painting and pasting.Empathy- getting to know an individual who has passed and seeing how family members might feel while creating these altars

  

Activities and Programs

Dress Up and Speak

Another Language

2008: Olympic Mascots2009: Pamplona-Running

of the Bulls

George Marshall High SchoolForeign Language TournamentSpring 2009

Governor School

National Competitions

Regional Competitions

Folger Lectures "Perspectives on China: The Perpetual Discovery (http://www.folger.edu/wosummary.cfm?woid=566)"Tue, Nov 10, 7:30pm; Tickets $12

Folger Lectures "Perspectives on China: The Perpetual Discovery (http://www.folger.edu/wosummary.cfm?woid=566)"Tue, Nov 10, 7:30pm; Tickets $12

Activities and Programs

Model OASChinese Calligraphy Demonstration

Club Activities: Peruvian Meal

LOCAL SCHOOLS WORKING TOGETHER

Foxcroft, Middleburg, VA

Madeira , Mclean. VA Holton-Arms,

Bethesda,MDE-mail and Exhange

Program

Agnes Irwin, PAE-mail Exchange Program

FOREIGN SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS

Foxcroft Madeira Holton-Arms Centre Danielou,

Paris, France Colegio Jesus Maria

de Juan Bravo, Madrid, Spain

An Outline of Our Visit• Attend classes• Participate in cooperative projects • Excursions to

the Eiffel Tower Notre Dame Le Sacré-Cœur the Louvre VersaillesChantilly

During our visit to France, Madeira/Holton/Foxcroft students will reside with

Daniélou families.

An Outline of Their Visit• Attend classes• Participate in cooperative projects • Excursions to

Mount VernonWashington, DCBaltimore

On the weekend, Madeira and Holton will host joint activities for students and host families from all three communities.

During their stay in the Washington area, Daniélou

students will reside with Madeira, Foxcroft and Holton

families.

Purpose:• Ensuring a global

perspective • Introducing weekly global

issues• Celebrating diversity,

including international• Looking at topics of daily

life in a global context

SOME CURRENT TOPICS

•Role of women in the Arab Spring•Christine Lagarde and Dilma Rousseff in global finance•Plagiarism in a global context and how other cultures view and deal with it•The meaning of democracy from a global perspective•Snow days and revolution days

Co-Curriculum Goes Global Redesign our flagship program▪ Four year sequence in global leadership

Extend internships to include summer work▪ National and international▪ Global focus

New coursesNew designNew themes