Westerville Central High School students who take Emily Swank-Kavanaugh’s Cultural Studies class will be engaging in the World Wise Schools program, available through the Peace Corps.
Throughout the school year, Swank and her pupils will be corresponding with an American volunteer named Alice McCutcheon, who is teaching in a Chinese literature classroom at Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichua - a rural area of China. McCutcheon provides a unique dynamic for Westerville students, as she is a 2011 graduate of Otterbein University.
The collaboration with Sichuan University will include video chats, pen pal letters, and lesson plans. Students both in Westerville and Sichuan will:
- Gain a unique global education;
- Experience and reflection on culture and diversity;
- Acquire global competency and tolerance; and
- Experience a unique technological form of learning.
For more information about World Wise Schools, please visit the video link below:
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/videos/introductionvideo/ .