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E-mail Q & A Exchange (10)

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Follow the guidelines below to complete your OneWorld Classrooms E-mail Q & A Exchange (10).

1. OneWorld Classrooms staff will match you with a partner class/school in the world region of your choice and give you the contact information for a Partner Teacher or Project Liaison at your partner school.

2. Contact your partner teacher via E-mail prior to the exchange to determine exchange timing*, question themes and curricular connections. Here is a sample Email that you may copy and paste.

*You and your partner teacher will send two Emails each to complete the actual exchange, one with student questions and one with student replies. Determine a specific date for when you will both send the question Email and a specific date for when you will both send the reply Email. Please make every effort to complete the exchange during the timeframe you arrange.

3. Send ten questions that your students would like to ask their partner students in one E-mail to your partner teacher. In the E-mail, include your (teacher's) name, grade level, school name, city, state/province and country.

4. Your partner teacher will also send you an Email with ten questions his/her students would like to ask yours. After you receive it, compile and send your students' replies in one E-mail to the partner teacher before the determined date.

5. If you have any problems communicating via E-mail with your partner teacher -- or if the exchange is not proceeding in the timeframe agreed upon, please send an E-mail to robin@oneworldclassrooms.org.

IMPORTANT: Do not send student E-mails or allow students to send E-mails directly to the partner teacher at your partner school or to project staff. OneWorld Classrooms does not reply student E-mails. Likewise, only a partner teacher or assistant at your partner school or a OneWorld Classrooms staff person will send you E-mail.

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Hani student at Jingha Elementary School in Yunnan Province, China

E-MAIL Q & A EXCHANGE (10)
AT A GLANCE

Partners exchange up to ten questions and answers via E-mail.
Only teachers send and receive E-mails.
Each partner teacher sends only two E-mails to complete the exchange, one with student questions and one with student replies.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

To contact OneWorld Classrooms about your exchange, send an E-mail to: robin@oneworldclassrooms.org. We provide E-mail support, whenever needed.

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TIPS FOR A GREAT EXCHANGE

Teachers are busy people! Where possible, recruit a parent to help coordinate the exchange.
Asking questions to students in the world region you are studying is an opportunity to reinforce what you are learning in the classroom and gain first-hand information beyond what a text book can offer. Guide your students to ask questions that key in on your curriculum.
Where differences abide, thoughtful questions can open minds. Encourage your students to ask questions with sensitivity and respect for their overseas peers. They will likely discover that they and their partners are more alike than different. But, there will be differences. Have them consider the differences from their partners' perspective.

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