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Podcasts

Virtual Event :: Assessing Intercultural Competence in Children

by Cate

This Wednesday, in a virtual SIETAR-NC event (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, North Carolina) I’ll be talking with Gina Difino about…

Resource :: Absolutely Intercultural Podcasts

by Cate

by :: Cate Here’s a valuable resource in podcast form: Absolutely Intercultural. These podcasts explore intercultural aspects of human intercultural communication. The show’s hosts, Anne Fox and Dr. Laurent Borgmann, are from Denmark and Germany, respectively. They post a new podcast every second Friday. Anne and Laurent’s goal with these podcasts isn’t so much to disseminate information, but rather to start [...]

The Great Italian Pizza Fiasco of 1994

by Cate

by :: Cate Here’s what I remember: We only have a small amount of Lire left and we need to eat dinner. I’m with two friends in Brindisi, an Italian port town, where our ferry to Greece originates. We’re about to leave on a 20+ hour voyage to Athens so we find a grocery store [...]

Resource :: Welcome to Wanzuzu

by Cate

by :: Cate Are you familiar with the Peace Corps Coverdell WorldWise website? What a treasure trove of resources for K-12 educators! (I use their cross-cultural understanding activities all the time, and not just with kids.) I just discovered a game called Welcome to Wanzuzu. In this game, students are challenged to talk to villagers and gather [...]

International Perspectives on U.S. Education :: 3 Short Podcasts

by Cate

Here at CulturallyTeaching we focus on K-12 education around the world. But I just found goSwoop, a social network for students worldwide who want to attend a U.S. college or university. GoSwoop offers a neat series of very brief podcasts, called the goSwoop Scoop. Here are 3 podcasts – two feature international students currently studying [...]

You Teach at How Many Schools? Our First Podcast with Pamela From Argentina

by Cate

Woo hoo! We’re excited to post our very first CulturallyTeaching podcast! In this episode, our friend Pamela from Argentina explains why: she used to teach at 11 different schools doesn’t hitchhike to work (but will pick up hitchhikers) lets students eat dinner in class. Intrigued? There’s more! Pamela also talks about the complex process teachers [...]

Welcome to CulturallyTeaching!

by Cate

photo by Sukanto Debnath New here? Well, then. This is a very good place to start. What This Blog is All About CulturallyTeaching is for curious teachers and education-enthusiasts around the world. It’s for people who have ever wondered… What schools in Argentina look like. How teachers are trained in the Philippines. Why students in [...]