Re: Cross Cultural Awareness
You can do some activities with your students in order to them understand each other culture, as an example of that, you can put them in groups (depends on how many students do you have) and try not to put more than 2 students from the same country together, if you classroom has computers ask to the student to log in and look for tipical things of their country in pictures and ask them to show them and explaine it in front of their classmates, I think that images and the fact that kids really love technology, is going to make the class more interactive and meaningful for them, then the student can share some of their native language, explained it what is the name of those especifics things that he/she showed to the rest of the class. If you classroom doesn't have tech, you can do something similar with a map and some draws. Would be a good idea if you introduce the activity to the students by saying that each of their culture (where they are from) is important, it's what they are or something like that :).
I hope this can help you good luck.
1 comment:
Nina,
Your suggestions are good for bringing cross-cultural awareness to the class. Do you think these would work if there were a lot of cultural tension in the classroom? Why or why not?
Gina
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