Global Lifelong Learning Plan Assignment & Grading Information
SNHU 404 ~ Fall 2015

DUE: October 19 (uploaded to Blackboard)

Assignment Information and Required Activities: You will brainstorm five (5) activities that you can see yourself engaging in during your lifetime that might assist you in developing your global learning. With each activity provide a brief discussion (a short paragraph) as to how this activity fits into one (or more) of the elements of the framework we are using:

Obtain Knowledge
• Understand the interconnectedness and interdependence of global systems
• Understand the historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that shape society and explain own situation in this context
• Understand various/different cultures and how culture is created
• Understand the relationship of power and language, and how language interacts with culture
• Understand conflict and power relationships.
• Understand how language frames thinking and perspective (“the language you speak creates the box in which you think”)
• Recognize how stereotypes develop and where they come from

Assume Attitudes
• A sense of perspective and social responsibility
• Overcome provincial/parochial thinking
• Reduced prejudice
• An appreciation of difference; an ability to value and acknowledge other cultures as legitimate
• Cultural self-awareness and understanding of one’s self in the global context (one’s own place and connections)
• Greater appreciation of or an interest in learning about different cultures
• Empathy and heightened awareness of perspective
• Open-mindedness and an understanding of complexity

Develop Skills
• The ability to think, work, and move across boundaries—in diverse environments with a range of people
• Conflict resolution
• Intercultural communications skills
• Language proficiency
• The ability to take informed responsibility for actions in a globally connected world
• Linking theory and practice through experience both as citizens and in professions
• Internalize and apply cultural understandings and knowledge
• An increased capacity to seek out multiple perspectives—inside perspectives as well as outside ones
Grading
Your Global Lifelong Learning Plan assignment will be graded based on the effort you put into the elements listed above. The rubric below will be used to grade your assignment:

Global Lifelong Learning Plan Assignment Grading Criteria & Rubric Points Possible Points Earned
Your understanding & completion of the assignment
12 = The statements display thoughtful consideration of the tasks required for the assignment and the application of activities to the framework.
6 = The statements display little consideration of the tasks required and/or lack clear application of activities to the framework.
0 = The work does not address the tasks required 12
Grammar, spelling, & organization
8 = Writing is error free and the assignment is a model for coherence
4 = Errors in writing are a distraction to the reader
0 = Grammar, spelling, & organization are in much need of improvement 8
TOTAL 20

Global Lifelong Learning Plan Assignment & Grading Information
SNHU 404 ~ Fall 2015

DUE: October 19 (uploaded to Blackboard)

Assignment Information and Required Activities: You will brainstorm five (5) activities that you can see yourself engaging in during your lifetime that might assist you in developing your global learning. With each activity provide a brief discussion (a short paragraph) as to how this activity fits into one (or more) of the elements of the framework we are using:

Obtain Knowledge
• Understand the interconnectedness and interdependence of global systems
• Understand the historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that shape society and explain own situation in this context
• Understand various/different cultures and how culture is created
• Understand the relationship of power and language, and how language interacts with culture
• Understand conflict and power relationships.
• Understand how language frames thinking and perspective (“the language you speak creates the box in which you think”)
• Recognize how stereotypes develop and where they come from

Assume Attitudes
• A sense of perspective and social responsibility
• Overcome provincial/parochial thinking
• Reduced prejudice
• An appreciation of difference; an ability to value and acknowledge other cultures as legitimate
• Cultural self-awareness and understanding of one’s self in the global context (one’s own place and connections)
• Greater appreciation of or an interest in learning about different cultures
• Empathy and heightened awareness of perspective
• Open-mindedness and an understanding of complexity

Develop Skills
• The ability to think, work, and move across boundaries—in diverse environments with a range of people
• Conflict resolution
• Intercultural communications skills
• Language proficiency
• The ability to take informed responsibility for actions in a globally connected world
• Linking theory and practice through experience both as citizens and in professions
• Internalize and apply cultural understandings and knowledge
• An increased capacity to seek out multiple perspectives—inside perspectives as well as outside ones
Grading
Your Global Lifelong Learning Plan assignment will be graded based on the effort you put into the elements listed above. The rubric below will be used to grade your assignment:

Global Lifelong Learning Plan Assignment Grading Criteria & Rubric Points Possible Points Earned
Your understanding & completion of the assignment
12 = The statements display thoughtful consideration of the tasks required for the assignment and the application of activities to the framework.
6 = The statements display little consideration of the tasks required and/or lack clear application of activities to the framework.
0 = The work does not address the tasks required 12
Grammar, spelling, & organization
8 = Writing is error free and the assignment is a model for coherence
4 = Errors in writing are a distraction to the reader
0 = Grammar, spelling, & organization are in much need of improvement 8
TOTAL 20

Global Lifelong Learning Plan Assignment & Grading Information
SNHU 404 ~ Fall 2015

DUE: October 19 (uploaded to Blackboard)

Assignment Information and Required Activities: You will brainstorm five (5) activities that you can see yourself engaging in during your lifetime that might assist you in developing your global learning. With each activity provide a brief discussion (a short paragraph) as to how this activity fits into one (or more) of the elements of the framework we are using:

Obtain Knowledge
• Understand the interconnectedness and interdependence of global systems
• Understand the historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that shape society and explain own situation in this context
• Understand various/different cultures and how culture is created
• Understand the relationship of power and language, and how language interacts with culture
• Understand conflict and power relationships.
• Understand how language frames thinking and perspective (“the language you speak creates the box in which you think”)
• Recognize how stereotypes develop and where they come from

Assume Attitudes
• A sense of perspective and social responsibility
• Overcome provincial/parochial thinking
• Reduced prejudice
• An appreciation of difference; an ability to value and acknowledge other cultures as legitimate
• Cultural self-awareness and understanding of one’s self in the global context (one’s own place and connections)
• Greater appreciation of or an interest in learning about different cultures
• Empathy and heightened awareness of perspective
• Open-mindedness and an understanding of complexity

Develop Skills
• The ability to think, work, and move across boundaries—in diverse environments with a range of people
• Conflict resolution
• Intercultural communications skills
• Language proficiency
• The ability to take informed responsibility for actions in a globally connected world
• Linking theory and practice through experience both as citizens and in professions
• Internalize and apply cultural understandings and knowledge
• An increased capacity to seek out multiple perspectives—inside perspectives as well as outside ones
Grading
Your Global Lifelong Learning Plan assignment will be graded based on the effort you put into the elements listed above. The rubric below will be used to grade your assignment:

Global Lifelong Learning Plan Assignment Grading Criteria & Rubric Points Possible Points Earned
Your understanding & completion of the assignment
12 = The statements display thoughtful consideration of the tasks required for the assignment and the application of activities to the framework.
6 = The statements display little consideration of the tasks required and/or lack clear application of activities to the framework.
0 = The work does not address the tasks required 12
Grammar, spelling, & organization
8 = Writing is error free and the assignment is a model for coherence
4 = Errors in writing are a distraction to the reader
0 = Grammar, spelling, & organization are in much need of improvement 8
TOTAL 20