6 pages in essay format:
This is a portfolio narrative essay describing my learning through experience and independent study. The focus is INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY IN SECONDARY EDUCATION, including extensive teaching of mixed cultures. I have taught secondary education in a private school setting in southern California for more than a decade. I served as a school administrator, and Earth Science teacher. This is a Prior Learning Documentation, the essay must describe learning through hand-on experience, reading, and research. After the essay is complete a second document detailing simple statements of experience and knowledge must correlate with the essay. Please use generalized statements of learning/knowledge gained through applicable teaching experiences.
Example: Through teaching diverse population in the classroom, I learned??.
As an administrator of an accredited secondary school???????
Relate ALL information to teaching in a culturally diverse middle and high school setting.
Cover the following information:
1. define intercultural communication.
—describe appropriate sensitivity in intercultural education in-depth.
2. discuss the challenges of intercultural communication
3. explore international and domestic intercultural contacts
4. explain principles of communication
5. identify functions and characteristics of culture
6. describe forms of intercultural communication
7. illustrate cultural influences on the perceptual process
8. recognize dominant American cultural patterns
9. recognize diverse cultural value dimensions
10. research the deep structures of culture
11. contrast cultural world views
12. consider cultural family structures
13. compare cultural histories
14. examine the functions of language
15. investigate the cultural impact of language
16. inventory diversity in U.S. patterns of language
17. name categories of nonverbal cues
18. observe cultural differences in nonverbal cues
19. appreciate cultural diversity
20. engage in intercultural dialogue
21. role-play intercultural communication skills
22. analyze personal intercultural sensitivities
23. describe cultural differences in educational practice
24. evaluate U.S. multicultural education practices
25. address multicultural issues in education
26. explore belief systems
27. contrast cultural patterns in education
28. set goals for improving competency in intercultural communication
I worked to get the school certified with the INS to serve non-immigrant students. We frequently accepted Korean students and students of Mexican-American heritage. The school worked with a very high ratio of special needs students.
Relate experiences in administrative practices including ?sponsoring? immigration paperwork for a teacher from India.
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2 pages in the following format to corespond with the content of the essay:
After the essay is complete a second 2-page document detailing simple statements of experience and knowledge must correlate with the essay.
The second document format is very easy:
Experience that led to learning: Knowledge attained through the experience:
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