Intercultural Competence
Technology & Alternative AssessmentsI am an advocate for 21st century learning skills and integrating technology in purposeful and meaningful ways to extend learning. This task allowed me to explore alternative assessments for ELLs, their importance and how they need to be both non-technological and technologically driven. Many students spend a lot of time staring at screens and through social media so technology should only be utilized meaningfully in the classroom and alongside non-technology ways to assess learning and for learning. I was able to explore a new digital tool: Sutori which is a fantastic resource for "timeline" building and allowing students a multimodal approach to both teaching and learning. Experiential LearningThis task consolidated my learning throughout this course as it asked me to go out and learn from others after applying everything I have learned. I developed a myriad of questions from topics we have covered throughout the course and was able to hear from a teacher who has taught ESL courses both here in Toronto. in Italy, and now for the first time in Vietnam. Understanding the implications of teaching English internationally is interesting and important as it is a job I am intrigued to take on in the future as well. I feel like we can only learn so much about other cultures here in Canada and that through travel we can really gain a global and sock-cultural competence necessary in our globalized economy of the present. I want to learn how to best support all of my student and that means learning from them who they are, how they identify, their languages, interests, cultures etc., so that i can create and provide differentiated instruction and resources that will best support them. This interview also exposed unique challenges that I may or may not face teaching ESL here in Canada as well and mediate those through effective teaching strategies that I have also learned throughout this course.
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