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4 Kid’s Books that Promote Cross-Cultural Awareness

by Cate

by :: Cate If you’d like to cultivate intercultural competence in kids, a great place to start is with developing curiosity, openness to, and respect for difference. Books that take a cross-cultural peek at daily life around the world are fantastic resources for helping young kids develop the attitudes on which further intercultural knowledge and skills [...]

Share Your First Day of School With the World

by Cate

by :: Cate I just joined the Global Education Collaborative (they’re @GlobalEdNing on Twitter) and came across the First Day of School Project. I thought you might be interested in learning more about - or contributing to – this project. Here’s how teacher Samuel Fye describes it: Hi all! I am working on a Wiki project [...]

Schultüte Resource #1 :: 43 Cross-Cultural Quotes for the Classroom

by Cate

by :: Cate Welcome to Schultüte Week! (Wondering what a Schultüte is? Stop here and read yesterday’s post.) Each day this week we’re pulling a nifty resource out of our virtual Schultüte of Cross-Cultural Resources for Busy Educators to share with our wonderful readers. photo by nlnnet Today’s resource features 43 Cross-Cultural Quotes for the Classroom [...]

It’s Schultüte Week!

by Cate

by :: Cate photo by terrin in Virginia Today is Labor Day in the U.S. That means we have a much-welcomed 3-day weekend. It also means summer is offically over. (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is). Even though winter comes relativly late here in North Carolina, it’s starting to feel a bit like fall. I’m [...]

Friday Foto :: Back 2 School

by Cate

by :: Cate photo by jem Which country do you think this school supply list is from? (I’m guessing NOT the U.S., since they ask kids to bring a 30 cm ruler, coloured pencils, and a rubber to school!) Note for our subscribers :: If you can’t see this photo, please click through to CulturallyTeaching.com. We love connecting with [...]

Think Goose

by Anamaria

by :: Anamaria Last week I was watching The Aristocats (yes,- cats not -crats) with my daughter. I don’t know how many of you are familiar with this animated movie for children. I am finding out that not many US Americans know about it. I absolutely loved it when I was little, and watched it [...]

Friday Foto :: Story Time

by Cate

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Friday Foto :: Happiness

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Getting to School in the U.K.

by Cate

Fiona, a physics teacher from the U.K. who just recently returned home after teaching in North Carolina, commented on last week’s post about how kids get to school. Fiona left a note on Facebook, so she agreed to let me post her response here. Fiona :: In the U.K. kids get a license for a scooter at 16 but for a [...]