Module 2 Wrap-up

 

This is the end of Module 2 - thank you for your participation! Before moving on to Module 3, please check if you have completed all of the assignments for this week. It may also benefit you to take some time to reflect on your learning this week. Below, you will find ten questions to help guide your reflection.

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Did you...

• ☐ repost your cultural introduction from Module 1?
• ☐ read/watch a video about active listening/reading?
• ☐ reflect on and write about the active listening techniques you use, would like to use, and would like others to use with you and write a post about this?
• ☐ read/watch a video about micro-cultures?
• ☐ complete an identity wheel and write about your thoughts on it?
• ☐ think about the micro-cultures you participate in?
• ☐ write about a specific micro-culture you participate in?
• ☐ use active listening/reading techniques to respond to a classmate’s post about the culture of their classrooms?
• ☐ read (the beginning of) the article about raising cultural awareness in the English classroom?
• ☐ take a quiz on raising cultural awareness?
• ☐ watch a video/read about critical thinking?
• ☐ take a quiz on critical thinking?
• ☐ write a definition of critical thinking and explain the importance of critical thinking?
• ☐ read/watch a video about cascading knowledge?
• ☐ write about your plans for a conversation with a colleague to cascade knowledge?
• ☐ submit original work throughout the module?
  
  

Questions for reflection:

1. What can you do to improve your skills as an active listener with students, colleagues, and other people in your life? Which active listening techniques are the easiest for you? Which are the most challenging?
2. What are the characteristics of the micro-cultures in your classes?
3. What was noticeable or interesting about classmates’ posts about their micro-cultures?
4. What did you learn about yourself from creating and examining your identity wheel?
5. What can you do to help students improve their critical thinking skills? Why is it important to do so?
6. How has your personal definition and understanding of critical thinking changed since the start of the course?
7. Why is it important to help students improve their intercultural competence? What are some new ideas you have for doing this?
8. What are some ways of initiating a cascading conversation your classmates listed that you might like to try? What are some questions your classmates listed that you might like to use to find out your colleagues’ interests?
9. What are some key learnings from this course you’d like to share with colleagues? Why?
10. What are some potential challenges to cascading new knowledge in your context? How can these challenges be addressed?