Module 4 Wrap-up

 

This is the end of Module 4 - thank you for your participation! Before moving on to Module 5, 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...

• ☐ watch a video or read a text about intercultural encounters?
• ☐ take a quiz about intercultural encounters?
• ☐ respond to classmates’ cultural bumps posts from last week?
• ☐ read about and took a quiz on rubrics for critical thinking?
• ☐ post a draft of a rubric to assess your students’ critical thinking skills?
• ☐ create a plan to gather information about your learners as cultural beings?
• ☐ write a post that describes a time you used the same lesson plan or activity in two different classes and had two different results?
• ☐ review the responses you gave to classmates to their “Cultural Introduction,” “Multiple Identities and Microcultures,” and “Cultural Bumps” posts?
• ☐ review the responses you received from classmates on your “Cultural Introduction,” “Multiple Identities and Microcultures,” and “Cultural Bumps” posts?
• ☐ write about how responses you gave and received in previous discussions in this course promoted critical thinking, promoted reflection, and strengthened the sense of community with other participants?
  
  

Questions for Reflection:

1. How does our previous work with observations and interpretations relate to cultural misunderstandings and conflicts?
2. Do your students tend to be from high-context or low-context cultures? Are they generally more polychronic or monochronic? Are they more collectivist or individualist? How can your answers to these questions impact your classes and your teaching?
3. How can rubrics be useful for you in your classes? What are the benefits?
4. The reading on rubrics says, “writing rubrics is difficult.” Do you agree? Why or why not? What are important considerations to keep in mind when you write rubrics?
5. In terms of critical thinking and culture, what skills do you think your students need to improve on? What can you do to help them with this?
6. What would you like to learn about your students? What can you do to learn more about your students as cultural beings? Is this something you typically focus on? What are the benefits of doing so?
7. What connections can you see between the “Same Practice, Different Context, Different Outcome” discussion in Module 4 and the “Different Context, Different Meaning” discussion in Module 3? How could this change your perspective on your lessons?
8. What did you learn from your classmates’ posts in the “Same Practice, Different Context, Different Outcome” discussion? How can this inform your teaching?
9. What can you do in your classes to help your students promote reflection and critical thinking in each other?
10. What can you do to help strengthen the sense of community in your classes?