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More School Photos from Argentina

by Cate

by :: Cate Pamela and I are working on a project that helps students develop their cultural, language, and technology skills (we’ll share the project with everyone in a couple weeks). So when I was in Argentina in September, Pamela planned her classes so I could visit some of her students right around the time they were working [...]

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 [...]

Schultüte Resource #3 :: How Diving Can Help Students See Other Perspectives

by Anamaria

by :: Anamaria Welcome back to Schultüte Week! (Wondering what a Schultüte is? Stop here and read Monday’s post. ) Each day this week we’re pulling a nifty resource out of our virtual Schultüte of Cross-Cultural Resources for Busy Educators. Yesterday’s resource offered 16 cross-cultural games, projects, and resources – all free and on the [...]

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 [...]

Friday Foto :: A Brief History of Education in the U.S.

by Cate

This weeks Friday Foto is a YouTube video about how U.S. education changed from 1900-1950. If you’re reading this post in a reader or email, you’ll need to click through to see the video. This 9-minute YouTube video was created as a project for teachers about the history of education in the U.S. from 1900-1950. [...]

Power Distance in the Classroom

by Anamaria

Culture School is in session! In this series, we take an aspect of intercultural theory and apply to daily life. Basically, our goal is to expose those cultural moonwalking bears. And because this blog is about culture and education, we consider each topic in the context of the classroom. photo by maryatexitzero In two previous [...]

Friday Foto :: It’s All Very Well to Teach My Boy to Paint Pretty Pictures, But…

by Cate

I recently found some videos about education on YouTube, so I’m going to post them every once in a while on Foto Friday (if you receive email updates you’ll want to click through to the blog to see the video). This one highlights U.S. progressive education in the 1940′s. What do you think? Subscribe to [...]

“Checking” Assumptions in the Classroom

by Cate

It’s funny, all those little things that are different in other cultures. Things you’d never expect to be different because it’s so obviously self-evident that they couldn’t possibly be any other way. For example, take a look at this photo. What do the red check marks symbolize for you? photo by squarepants2004jauntyh_uia When I (Cate) [...]