Cross Cultural Comm No. ELL-ED-260: Forums

Learning forums

Section	Forum	Description	Discussions
Module 1	Plagiarism Policy - PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE	Please acknowledge the Plagiarism Policy housed in this module by responding to this forum. Click "Add a new discussion topic" below. Type "I acknowledge the Policy Statement" into the window and then click "post to forum."	18
	Introductions- Tell Us About Yourself!	Share a little bit about yourself professionally and personally: what grades and subjects you teach presently, previously, educational and/or other career background...any pets, favorite movies, favorite ice-cream. Let's get to know who our colleagues are in this course. Share your response by ...	18
	Mod 1 Discussion: Goals for This Course	Set two or three of your own goals or learning objectives for this course. We'll revisit them at the end. Share your response by clicking "Add a new discussion topic" below. Type it into the window and then click "Post to forum."	18

Module 2	Mod 2 Discussion: Getting to Know Our Students and Why	Why is it important to get to know, and understand, our ELLs? What role does culture play? Share your response by clicking "Add a new discussion topic" below. Type it into the window and then click "Post to forum."	18
	Mod 2 Discussion: Stages of language development and comprehension	Think of a subject area and a lesson topic. Locate a text either recently taught, or one you plan to teach with, to use in the lesson. Develop one comprehension question and change/alter it for each of the language development stages: Preproduction Early production Speech ...	18

Module 3	Scenario Response 1	You are leading up a parent workshop for new families from other countries. You want to communicate clear understanding of classroom and homework rules, while honoring their cultural beliefs at the same time. Propose an outline for this workshop to include the objectives, what will be included, ...	18
	Mod 3 Discussion: Moving Students Into a New Culture	Think about a time when you experienced culture shock, either by visiting another country for a period of time, another region, or even by changing jobs or schools (corporate or academic culture). Culture has many colors. Describe your experience, and how you felt. Describe how you were able ...	18

Module 4	Scenario Response 2	Respond to the following: You are on a curriculum committee, and need to screen for curriculum and assessments that will meet the following criteria: Cultural relevance Non-bias Alignment to state/national standards Differentiated Design a proposed checklist for everyone to use in screening ...	18

Module 5	Scenario Response 3	Respond to the following scenario: Your new students have various cultural backgrounds. They are also in many different stages of language development, some on grade level, others well below. You want to group them to achieve the following objectives: Students will be able to be sensitive to...	18

Module 6	Mod 6 Discussion: Language Acquisition in a Cultural Context	What language activities can be consistently worked into a cross curricular curriculum to reinforce morphological awareness and other linguistic skills, while deepening understanding of culture at the same time? Feel free to share practices you have used successfully in the past. Share your ...	18
	Scenario Response 4	Respond to the following scenario: You want, and need, to build some routines into the classroom to make your second language learners, who are new to the country within the last year, feel competent and confident about their learning. You have read that this could begin with cultural ...	18

Module 7	Mod 7 Discussion: Language and Learning	In the attached article, Integrating Culture into Language Learning, what impact does culture, and knowledge of culture have on the learners? Share a topic that might be used to help inspire interest in another culture and foster cultural understanding What other useful resource/article would...	18
	Mod 7 Discussion: Cross Cultural Awareness	Examine the resources below, and select an idea to share regarding cross cultural awareness: teaching it to students through cultural sensitivity capitalizing on it to build their competence and confidence as learners using one culture to assimilate them to another. Teaching For Change: ...	18

Module 8	Scenario Response 5	Respond to the following scenario: You have a new student, Jin Wu, who seems to focus as you give instructions, particularly for the writing test he is about to take. In class he is making good progress as a new language learner, in both content and in building his language skills. Classroom ...	18
	Mod 8 Video Discussion	Respond to the video(s) housed in this module. Discuss how the teaching and learning apply to your own work with students and/or teachers. Consider how you might use the same or similar approach moving forward. Share your response by clicking "Add a new discussion topic" below. Type it into the ...	18

Module 9	Mod 9 Discussion of my English Language Learners	Name several early literacy strategies appropriate for an inclusive classroom. While you may only have one or two ELLs in your classrooms, select those that can be easily differentiated for cross cultural communication, and describe the approach. Share your response by clicking "Add a new ...	18

Module 10	Scenario Response 6	Respond to the following scenario: You need to create a Functional Behavioral Assessment plan for a student, and you want to do it in the most cultural-friendly way possible so that the student is more likely to respond. The student is in an early language stage of non-speaking, ...	18

Module 11	Mod 11 Mid-Course Reflection and Self-Assessment	Reflection is as highly relevant to cognition. Please reflect on your learning throughout this course up to this point in a response from 300 to 500 words in length. Address each of the following: Language as a system of learning The relevance of including culture in your curriculum Cultural...	18

Module 12	Scenario Response 7	You are observing a colleague teach so that you can provide her or him with useful feedback. You and this colleague have taken a number of workshops on brain compatible teaching, and you have planned to observe each other as you apply these methods to your ELLs. In preparing to give your ...	17

Module 13	Mod 13 Discussion: SIOP discussion	Having watched the SIOP Video, and reviewed the SIOP Guide housed in this module, what makes SIOP a cross cultural practice? Where is this in the SIOP Guide? Share your response by clicking "Add a new discussion topic" below. Type it into the window and then click "Post to forum."	17

Module 14	Mod 14 Curriculum Selection Activity 1	Create an outline detailing a set of school guidelines for selecting non-textbook materials such as trade books, software, and web-based materials. Describe and critique the non-textbook selection process based on how well the current process recognizes diverse cultures and meets the needs of ...	17
	Mod 14 Curriculum Selection Activity 2	Find a text to evaluate for cultural relevance and adoption. Identify a text used in the past, or one to be used in the future. Googlebooks allows for searching sections of text. If you can get a full table of contents, index, glossary, and view of other chapters it would suffice for this ...	17
	Scenario Response 8	Respond to the following scenario: Your building principal has assigned you to turnkey some training to the rest of the school staff (all content areas) on adopting and adapting curriculum. What are the most important guidelines you will teach them, and what will your syllabus look like? Share ...	17

Module 16	Mod 16 Discussion: Modifications for the Second Language Learner	What modification considerations are relevant for, and specific to, the second language learner? Add at least two more to those included in the book Selecting and Modifying Materials to Differentiate. Share your response by clicking "Add a new discussion topic" below. Type it into the window and...	17

Module 17	Mod 17 Discussion: Culturally Responsive Teaching	Look through the materials housed within this module. Select a resource that you consider to be culturally responsive, and that has the potential to meet all 7 of the criteria for culturally responsive teaching in this module. Describe its cultural-friendliness. Describe its potential. Descr...	17

Module 18	Scenario Response 9	Respond to the following scenario: You have a classic field-dependent learner in your classroom, with several others that teeter somewhere between field-dependent and field-independent. You want to move all of the students to become more field-independent. Identify an instructional approach for ...	16

Module 20	Mod 20 Discussion: Goals for This Course Revisited	Share the goals that you set at the beginning of the course, and how they were met (or not met) throughout the course. Share your response by clicking "Add a new discussion topic" below. Type it into the window and then click "Post to forum."	18