Designing Learning for Intercultural Understanding in International Schools
Explore practical approaches to develop open-minded, evidence-minded, and ethical students who can grow to function at the deepest levels of the cultural iceberg model.
Welcome!
Course Goals
Guiding Questions
Course Timings: Planning Your Time
Key Research References
Learning Log
Welcome to module 1
Definitions: what is culture?
Activity: what is the culture of your school?
Four different types of cultural paradigm
Interculturalism
Interculturalism II
Which of these cultural paradigms best fits your school?
Reflections on module 1: Assessment
Module 1 conclusion
Chalk Talk Protocol
Welcome to Module 2
International education and intercultural understanding
Question: what are the main activities in your school that develop intercultural understanding?
Preparing your classroom for intercultural understanding
Creating a space where cultural interactions are respectful and enriching
Step one: establishing classroom norms
Survey: how would you create classroom norms with your students?
Step two: curriculum decisions
Course reading: decolonising the curriculum
Reflections on Module 2: Assessment
Module 2 conclusion
Welcome to module 3
Strategy 1: cultural heroes/heroines and icons
Strategy 2: end of unit reflections
Strategy 3: structuring effective student-led discussions
Strategy 4: recognising major cultural celebrations
Reflections on Module 3: Assessment
Module 3 conclusion
Welcome to module 4
Reflections on language
Reflections on how you can leverage the community to make cultures visible
Reflections on self awareness
Reflections on how you can embrace your own diversity
Reading: Diversity as the bedrock of peace - implications for education
Module 4 conclusion
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