Task: In pakistan your will be working in a school with a group of students who aspire to pursue studeis in states or similar countries in the west. How will you plan your course to help them to acclimate into the culture?
I would organize a training of 6 meetings where students can express themsleves and if it´s necessary share with others their feelings about different cultures. I would choose working in small groups, discussions, sharing own personal experience. I would choose traditional presentation for giving practical information about working policies of different countries, case studies for deeping a specific situation, role play and simulation for processing identification in real life situation and personal limits in different contest. I would add energizers (to build the group) and creatives activites to stimulate also other communicative ways of approaching.
1st lesson: Working on getting to know each other, presentation about the course methodology, the programme and definition of the time, the way and the work places. Expectation about the course.
2nd lesson: Starting from students ideas: where would you like to go to work and why? Differences and similarities on those ideas. The role of a foreigner worker in west countries and working policies of the chosen west countries/states.
3rd lesson: what do you think will be your working day? comparison with the expectation and real day routine. Reflections of moving abroad.
4th lesson: Comparison and exchange on culture peculiarities of home country and west countries/states.
Why the dialogue is important in different cultures. Prejudices and Stereotypes. Why differences in culture are positive.
5th lesson: Tollerance and integration: reflection on own membership and nationality (in this case Pakistan)
Case study: analyse a concrete situation and different modalities of adaptation and integration.
6th and last lesson: analyse of the real opportunities on western markets. Reflection on ideas, projects, organizations and evaluation of own idea. Looking for already implement projects and analyse them from the culture point of view.
17/03/13
Global and Cultural Competencies - Task 2 - 1st part
The Global and Culture Competencies asked to give a short answers (Around 250-500 words) on these questions:
How I will prepare myself for a group of students from different cultures? (Finnish language teacher)
What I will do to help the student that speaks only arabic to learn Finnish?
To have a multiculture classes is a challenge but it´s not impossible to deal with students from different cultures. I would at the beginning find out their personal information (for instance where are they from, what schools they attended and so on) and then organize a previous meeting with them and/or with their families.
If it is absolutely necessary I would ask the help of a translator, but at the beginning I would probabily find out their knowledge in Finnish language.
In order to do that I think would be enough have an informal conversation. After that I could divide them in 3 different levels:
- beginners
- intermidiate
- advanced.
With the beginners I would start working on pronunciation: using a lot my body language and try to do as much as I can to involve them. One good activity might be in group to write (and it doesn´t matter if it´s not written correctly) a list of Finnish words (including names of famous Finns, food, cities and so on..) I would then with them start to work on the pronunciation of those words. If necessary I could use as a language support English/French and Italian ;)
Probabily in this group will be also that student that knows only arabic: she will be treated as the rest and if necessary I could ask help for a translator. Putting her with beginners won´t let her/his motivation going down if she/he will be if would be with advanced or intermidiate.
With the intermidiate: I would start with a simple conversation on daily routines in order to check what are their speaking skills. I would ask them also to write down a small presentation on themselves (in order to see their written skill). Based on this I could carry on a tailor made course for them too.
With the advanced: Conversations, discussions on newspapers articles, about cultures. Movies. Comments on national happenings. Same strategy than intermidiate course: build a tailored course for them.
In all of three I would teach them the Finnish culture: showing them videos (according to their level), receipts (according to their level) and everything what included the Finnish daily culture routines.
I would also recommend to have a book, an exercise book and cd that they could listening at the different dialogue and pronunciation during their spare time.
For teaching culture I would also spend some time during my lessons to let the students express themselves and talk about their own culture. I would work (beside the language itself) on the concepts of:
- communication between different culture
- expectations on the other culture actions
- building a group and a community
- the advantages of no violence approach but see the idea of conflict as a constructive opportunity to have a dialogue
- culture shock
I would use for cover this part the material used by the National Agencies from different training programmes. One of it you can find in here: salto-youth.net
How I will prepare myself for a group of students from different cultures? (Finnish language teacher)
What I will do to help the student that speaks only arabic to learn Finnish?
To have a multiculture classes is a challenge but it´s not impossible to deal with students from different cultures. I would at the beginning find out their personal information (for instance where are they from, what schools they attended and so on) and then organize a previous meeting with them and/or with their families.
If it is absolutely necessary I would ask the help of a translator, but at the beginning I would probabily find out their knowledge in Finnish language.
In order to do that I think would be enough have an informal conversation. After that I could divide them in 3 different levels:
- beginners
- intermidiate
- advanced.
With the beginners I would start working on pronunciation: using a lot my body language and try to do as much as I can to involve them. One good activity might be in group to write (and it doesn´t matter if it´s not written correctly) a list of Finnish words (including names of famous Finns, food, cities and so on..) I would then with them start to work on the pronunciation of those words. If necessary I could use as a language support English/French and Italian ;)
Probabily in this group will be also that student that knows only arabic: she will be treated as the rest and if necessary I could ask help for a translator. Putting her with beginners won´t let her/his motivation going down if she/he will be if would be with advanced or intermidiate.
With the intermidiate: I would start with a simple conversation on daily routines in order to check what are their speaking skills. I would ask them also to write down a small presentation on themselves (in order to see their written skill). Based on this I could carry on a tailor made course for them too.
With the advanced: Conversations, discussions on newspapers articles, about cultures. Movies. Comments on national happenings. Same strategy than intermidiate course: build a tailored course for them.
In all of three I would teach them the Finnish culture: showing them videos (according to their level), receipts (according to their level) and everything what included the Finnish daily culture routines.
I would also recommend to have a book, an exercise book and cd that they could listening at the different dialogue and pronunciation during their spare time.
For teaching culture I would also spend some time during my lessons to let the students express themselves and talk about their own culture. I would work (beside the language itself) on the concepts of:
- communication between different culture
- expectations on the other culture actions
- building a group and a community
- the advantages of no violence approach but see the idea of conflict as a constructive opportunity to have a dialogue
- culture shock
I would use for cover this part the material used by the National Agencies from different training programmes. One of it you can find in here: salto-youth.net
12/03/13
More reflections about my learning path and some answers for my DP feedback
I define myself as a social person, even though in my family I am the quietest one. I enjoy to be around people:I love to work in groups and I can work also easily as an individual. In groups of 2-4 people in an specific task I work pretty easy. Bigger group (for instance our iVet) it's suitable for me to give me the whole picture or the whole process and different reactions and knowledge in front of the things. I am conscious now that a group as its own life and we have to take as much as possible during the phase of the max activity.
As A learner I discovered during these studies how important is to share ideas, paths, questions with other learners. We have that kind of situation ( learning from others) in front of us everyday if we think about children. The children copy other children. In adult world pf course we don't copy others but we can have from others the right support to come up with a brillian idea. As a teacher I discover how much more the teaching itself is engaging me when I make my students work in collaborative learning tasks. From there comes new ideas, problems and healthy discussions. I am totally in and it's look so democratic! The time goes faster, nobody sleep and I am actually feeling that I am giving something to the people. Covering different learning styles and especially that one which is for me the weakest make me feel more efficient. It's a challenging when sometimes in front of me there are different generation of students that are especting to learn according with the old methods. I am different teacher since I began these studies path: before my willing to learn and to give was restricted to my job: now I would like to espand and catch all the opportunities out there. Become intrapreneur of my own life ( at the end it's me who pays).Go global. Save the world and take with me all those students that share with me the will to improve and take risks. I am more and more sure that we could create a better community if we just help learners to understand basic values and take risks.
Like I said in my previous post I enjoyed the virtual studies and specifically to these ones I would probabily change our study platform such Optima and give us the possibility to choose what learning platform could be more suitable for the whole group. This process could take time I know but at least not complains ;) I would prefer having more contact days with the group and the tutors. Maybe not so much but only three times per year 2 days are quite low. We are quite far for having the vocational teaching done completely on line so a bit more contact days wouldn't be bad for me. Like I said I am social person so I am a social teacher. Not perfect one, I do also make mistakes and get bad feedback. What I do when I go those ones? I took my entrepreneur attitude and using the bad one as a incentive for re building the whole process. I don't give up.
Never.
As A learner I discovered during these studies how important is to share ideas, paths, questions with other learners. We have that kind of situation ( learning from others) in front of us everyday if we think about children. The children copy other children. In adult world pf course we don't copy others but we can have from others the right support to come up with a brillian idea. As a teacher I discover how much more the teaching itself is engaging me when I make my students work in collaborative learning tasks. From there comes new ideas, problems and healthy discussions. I am totally in and it's look so democratic! The time goes faster, nobody sleep and I am actually feeling that I am giving something to the people. Covering different learning styles and especially that one which is for me the weakest make me feel more efficient. It's a challenging when sometimes in front of me there are different generation of students that are especting to learn according with the old methods. I am different teacher since I began these studies path: before my willing to learn and to give was restricted to my job: now I would like to espand and catch all the opportunities out there. Become intrapreneur of my own life ( at the end it's me who pays).Go global. Save the world and take with me all those students that share with me the will to improve and take risks. I am more and more sure that we could create a better community if we just help learners to understand basic values and take risks.
Like I said in my previous post I enjoyed the virtual studies and specifically to these ones I would probabily change our study platform such Optima and give us the possibility to choose what learning platform could be more suitable for the whole group. This process could take time I know but at least not complains ;) I would prefer having more contact days with the group and the tutors. Maybe not so much but only three times per year 2 days are quite low. We are quite far for having the vocational teaching done completely on line so a bit more contact days wouldn't be bad for me. Like I said I am social person so I am a social teacher. Not perfect one, I do also make mistakes and get bad feedback. What I do when I go those ones? I took my entrepreneur attitude and using the bad one as a incentive for re building the whole process. I don't give up.
Never.
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