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PLEASE CONFIRM THAT MARCH 7TH, 12AM IS GOOD TIME TO MEET YOU FOR (FACE TO FACE) CLASS THANK YOU, PLAMEN

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“In order to prepare students to live in a culturally diverse society, schools should formally require all students to study other cultures and societies in depth.” > > > Robert White > > While confidence in specific methods has declined, interest in individual learner differences, such as motivation, aptitude, family background, has noticeably increased. If we cannot say exactly how we should teach, then perhaps we must let our learners determine how they should learn, and be guided by that instead. > > To be effective, expatriate teachers must take account of all these cultures and how they influence the attitude and study styles of their students. Instead of trying to impose cultures of their own, they must work with the cultures that they encounter. Of course, teachers need to be aware not only of the cultures of their students and their environment, but also of the cultures that they themselves bring to the classroom, whether they are nationals or expatriates. Even when we are dealing with culture in the more traditional sense, this is increasingly seen primarily as a context within which personal identity can be worked out. > > Cultural research has had the unfortunate result of misrepresenting foreign cultures by reinforcing stereotypes and constructing these cultures as monolithic, static ‘Others’, rather than as dynamic fluid entities. Appropriate personal qualities, therefore, are what count most in the development of good intercultural communicative competence. In fact, I would argue, they are the key to overall success in the classroom, and this has not really changed over the years, although concern with the latest technique and method has tended to obscure this fact. (Grundy, 1999) > > Bibliography > ‘Cultural practice in everyday life: the language learner as ethnographer’. In: Bryam M ,  Fleming M  , editors. Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ; 1998. > > Humanistic Approaches: an Empirical View. London : The British Council ; 1982. ‘Some doubts about Humanistic Language Teaching’ in P. Early. > Individual Freedom in Language Teaching. Oxford : Oxford University Press ; 2001. > > magnificently done, Robert. I am impressed! Plamen

Sally Steele A fairly common understanding among teachers is that the study of the curriculum opens up the study of cultures. Appreciating the artistic expressions of a culture enhances student understanding of that culture and its people. Beyond appreciation, when students make artworks, they create meaning and explore their perceptions of various cultural roles. Expressing complex cultural backgrounds through art making allows for a kind of multidimensionality in the classroom, as students come to personally appreciate multicultural approaches, including their own and other cultural perspectives.(Song, 2009)

Teacher work samples are one tool for helping student teachers learn to systematically connect their actions to the learning of each student. To connect teaching and learning effectively, student teachers must understand well the teaching and learning context. To deepen student teachers' abilities to analyze the teaching and learning context and plan for working most effectively within it, candidates engaged in ethnographic analysis of their mentor teachers' classroom cultures. Using digital video technology, video ethnographies were produced to illustrate salient qualities of classroom culture including routines of action, shared beliefs and values, and patterns of interaction and engagement.(Girod, 2008)

I feel this is great because alone a classroom is considered it's own culture. Each class is so different from the next it's what the teacher teaches them becomes their classroom culture and i believe giving that to student teachers makes it all that better. When i hear the word culture it can be anything your group, peers or where you come from. The word is so broad.

Bibliography: Art Education, v62 n6 p19-24 November 2009 Teacher Educator, v43 n3 p216-237 Jul 2008