The Foundation for Interdisciplinary Team Learning in the 360 Degree Global Ed Model

The 360 Degree Global Education Model (360 Global Ed Model) provides a comprehensive framework for creating meaningful interdisciplinary student team learning through international service learning. Providing successful multi-disciplined undergraduate education necessitates creating a foundation for productive team-science based learning between disciplines. The pedagogical foundation employed by Breitkreuz and Songer within the 360 Global Ed model creates a shared values student dialogue for enhancing undergraduate team learning and performance. This paper provides a summary of the 360 Global Ed Model, a discussion of methods used to create a student shared dialogue ("Team Learning Foundation"), lessons learned, and student outcomes. Methods for shared dialogues include creating a team-defined mission, team-defined behavioral standards, building shared cultural understandings and expectations for developing cultural intelligence, and developing realistic expectations for interpersonal understandings through use of self-assessments. Student team-led projects provide an authentic context impetus for implementing the team learning foundation. [For the full proceedings, see ED631133.]