------ About Us ------ 

😊Welcome to Shiminly! Our name, ‘Shimin’ is Japanese for ‘citizen’. Our mission is to give learners the tools they need to become Global Citizens of the 21st Century. 🌍 We are dedicated to imbuing our students with the skills and tools they need to become empathetic, resilient, and well-rounded individuals. 🌟 

Our facilitators are highly experienced, well-traveled, and trained to deliver our lessons using modern teaching methodologies, such as: 

🧔 Socratic Method  

💭 Inquiry-Based  

🛠️ Problem-Based 

✅ Task-Based 

📚 Project-Based  

 

------ Our Core Skills ------ 

We have built our curriculum around 7 Core Skills, which are: 

💞 Emotional Intelligence 

🧘‍♀️ Self-Awareness and Adaptability 

🗣️ Teamwork and Communication 

🌍 Global Citizenship 

💡Creativity and Innovation 

🧠 Critical Thinking 

🌠 Motivation and Exploration 

 

------ Class Goals ------ 

🎯 Learn vocabulary to describe the basic elements of fiction 🧚

🎯 Explore and practice strategies for planning and structuring a story 🏗️

🎯 Create a story based on a given picture 📸


------ Class Structure and Materials ------ 

Each of our lessons is separated into distinct sections: 

1️⃣ After being welcomed to the class, learners will be introduced to the topic through a game or warm up activity. They will then have their existing knowledge on the topic tested with various inquiry-based questioning techniques. (5-10 minutes) 

2️⃣ Then, our facilitators will present them with pertinent information on the topic and the main class task (10-15 minutes).  

3️⃣ The facilitator will then present the main task, which will predominantly be student-led. During this time, students will be creating, innovating, or solving a problem while the facilitator guides them (20-25 minutes).  

4️⃣ Learners will then have the opportunity to present their class work. They will give and receive feedback from each other as well as from the facilitator (10 minutes).  

5️⃣ Before finishing the class, learners will complete a short Exit Ticket to solidify their takeaways from the class experience (5 minutes). 
 
The facilitator will share all of our content built on Canvas LMS. We use this for display purposes only and learners are not required to create an account. To make our content engaging, we diversify our delivery methods as much as possible. Our content includes static slides with text and images built on Microsoft Powerpoint, educational videos from YouTube, online games built on platforms such as Wordwall and Baamboozle, and interactive builds developed on Articulate Storyline. Our content is well-researched and referenced in every lesson, as it is all strictly factual, objective, and secular. We only use images and YouTube videos that fall under the Creative Commons license. Each of our lessons is also matched with a selection of Common Core and CPalms standards and is inspired by a variety of UNESCO key topics.