The Global Classroom

The Global Classroom

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What do you want to learn from this session today?

How much or what type of intercultural experience do you have?

How do you plan to use the skills and knowledge from this session?

What specific questions do you have or areas of evaluation would you like to explore?

Successful intercultural interactions can be life changing. They can inspire,

motivate, encourage, and excite us to explore cultural differences.

Negative intercultural interactions can create frustration, anxiety,

disappointment, and resistance to engaging cultural differences.

Differences exist, even though we don’t always know what they are, we experience them.

Making the effort to change and adapt our behavior creates different feelings ranging from excitement and creativity to frustration and exhaustion.

Integration Assimilation

Separation Marginalization

High Partner Attractiveness

Low Cultural Preservation

High Cultural Preservation

Low Partner Attractiveness

Open-mindedSense of humorAbility to cope with failureCommunicativenessFlexibility and adaptabilityCuriosityPositive and realistic expectationsTolerance for difference and

ambiguityPositive regard for othersA strong sense of selfCultural knowledge

A combination of our personal, cultural and universal experiences which inform our values, beliefs and behaviors.

People are different around the world. Their needs, however, are the same. How they satisfy their needs is different, and that is what we mean by CULTURE.

John Condon

How did you feel about the process? What did you learn?

What differences emerged in the group as you described behaviors that demonstrate certain values?

Do any of these behaviors get in the way of valuing diversity or of being inclusive?

Which behaviors are necessary for learners to succeed in your academic institution and/or the US workforce?

  How can we communicate the necessity for this

behavioral expectation in way that is respectful of your learner’s differences?

Increasing cultural self-awareness is a key component to increasing ones ability to be effective and appropriate in intercultural situations.

“Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.”

Edward Hall

“Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in intercultural situations based on one’s intercultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes (Dr. Darla Deardorff, 2008)

Attitudes: • Respect (valuing other cultures, cultural diversity)• Openness (to intercultural learning and to people from other

cultures, withholding judgment)• Curiosity and discovery (tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty)

Skills:• To listen, observe, and interpret• To analyze, evaluate, and relate

Knowledge:• Cultural self-awareness• Deep understanding and knowledge of culture• Culture-specific information• Sociolinguistic awareness

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