{"id":107098,"date":"2026-02-06T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107098\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:31:16","slug":"global-learning-exchange-south-korean-educators-visit-bcms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107098\/","title":{"rendered":"Global learning exchange: South Korean educators visit BCMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xx0L2A9440-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"group holding banner\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1942\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67737 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Jan. 23, a group of educators from South Korea visited Bethlehem Central Middle School to observe teaching and assessment practices across a variety of subject areas.<\/p>\n<p>During their visit, the group \u2014 five faculty members at Kang-Dong High School in Daegu, South Korea, along with a translator who is a graduate student at UAlbany \u2014 spent time in classrooms observing lessons in art, social studies, science and engineering, ELA and Spanish. The observations focused on instructional strategies, student engagement and assessment approaches used to support learning at the secondary level.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was coordinated by Deputy Superintendent Dr. David Hurst, in collaboration with \u201cClassrooms Beyond Borders,\u201d the organization sponsoring the international visit, and the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean educators visited six classrooms at the middle school, and were able to observe hands-on learning that featured students:<\/p>\n<p>Using computer-aided design (CAD) software to create unique 3D-printed keychains (Engineering Basics 2 with teacher Tim Connelly)<br \/>\nLearning about air pressure, temperature and convection using a two-liter plastic bottle and a balloon (Science 8 with teacher Todd Tyler)<br \/>\nEngaged in a \u201cLook Through the Keyhole\u201d a creative drawing project\u00a0 (Studio in Art with Gwen Kovacik)<\/p>\n<p>The group also visited sixth-grade social studies with Khalan Micieli, English 8 with Chris Holoday, and Spanish 8 with Rebecca McIlvain, and got a tour of the BCMS TV studio from Mr. Connelly.<\/p>\n<p>The visit concluded with a meeting that brought together all K-12 academic supervisors for a cross-cultural professional exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to our BCMS teachers, staff and students for inspiring people across the globe!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0L2A9621-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"science class experiment with two liter bottle&#10;\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67749 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xxxx0L2A9326-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"group of people talking\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67754 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xx0L2A9398-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"two people talking\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67751 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xx0L2A9524-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"people observe students creating artwork\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67743\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xxx0L2A9681-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"science class experiment with two liter bottle&#10;\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67755 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xxxx0L2A9430-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"group of people poses for photo\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67752 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Jan. 23, a group of educators from South Korea visited Bethlehem Central Middle School to observe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[44236,44237,153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-107098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bcms-archive","9":"tag-bcms-news","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}