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Getting Started
Finding Your Way
What to Expect
Assessing Learning
Extend & Contextualize
Let's Go!
Meet Your Instructor, find out about the course
Course Goals
Guiding Questions
Course Timings: Planning Your Time
Tools: Your Learning Log
Key Research References
Welcome to module 1
FREE PREVIEWDefinitions: what is culture?
FREE PREVIEWActivity: 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
What will you be able to do upon course completion?
Identify the principles and purpose of intercultural and international education addressing concepts of beliefs, bias and culture.
Apply practical approaches and strategies, such as classroom discussion, teacher role modeling, cooperative learning, inquiry-focused learning, concept-focused learning, and transfer, to promote intercultural understanding.
Directly impact your professional practice to tackle unconscious bias, challenge student thinking, and broaden perspectives.
How will this course have a positive impact?
What are you still wondering?
Yes. Certification is awarded by MiniPD, from Faria Education Group.
You will need to complete all modules, learning activities in practice, and gain 100% in the checking for understanding assessments.
You will be awarded the Certificate of Completion in 'Designing Learning for Intercultural Understanding in International Schools'.
MiniPD is partnering with Kent State University, a R1 university in the United States, to grant graduate credits for completing MiniPD courses. To receive graduate credits, the learner must complete a required number of MiniPD Core or MiniCourses, and submit the completed MiniPD Learning Logs for each course. Details of the credit application process can be found at https://www.kent.edu/ehhs/offices/pd/minipd-courses. Please check with your license issuing authorities for details on the number of credits needed for your license renewal.
You will be presented with suggested pathways to support continued learning. These will include carefully designed resources, MiniCourses, and personalized coaching conversations.
We can support you to implement this course in your own school with suggested approaches for interleaved professional development days, professional learning communities, and ongoing job-embedded peer learning structures.