Monday, February 16, 2015

Milton Martinez_CO_#2

Milton Martinez_CO_#2  

Date: February 5, 2015 – 1:00 pm, Thursday                                                                                                                                              Teacher: Ramin Yazdanpanah                                                                                                                   Topic: Culture and Education                                                                                                            Skill: Talking – Explain and demonstrate the appropriate or expected behavior (verbal and nonverbal) in situations like greetings, how to get the teachers attention, how close stand next to each other while talking, offer something to someone and disagree with someone.

Classroom Management

15 Minutes: Cultural exercise – The class was divided in Teams, each Team will develop the information requested below.
Discover, explain and demonstrate from your first culture point of view, the appropriate or expected behavior (verbal and nonverbal) in situations like greetings, how to get the teachers attention, how close stand next to each other while talking, offer something to someone and disagree with someone. He asked each team to develop several demonstrations.

5 Minutes: Each Team  
Discussed why it is important to behave the way your first culture requires and how could the behavior affect teaching and learning.

10 Minutes: Teams presented results.
It was very interesting to hear cultural differences especially on how different doe’s cultures greet.

15 minutes – Each group worked developing a poster presentation and how will they share it with CIES and TEFL students.  Ramin requested 3 examples of behavior that differ between students first culture and school partners. Why is important to behave in this way. How the behavior could affect teaching and learning and finally, the visible and invisible aspects of culture in your examples.

15 Minutes: Ramin walked around teams helping with the Poster design process and provided feedback. Other CIES professor was helping the students.
Final comment – Decide who will prepare the materials and email one time all materials to Ramin and he will print it.

It was an amazing cultural exercise; I wish I had the time to be part of the class from day one.



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