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Looking Inside and Out Through Our Cultural Lens: Perspectives ON Hosting International Students

Looking Inside and Out Through Our Cultural Lens: Perspectives ON Hosting International Students. Sophie Gardner, U.S. Hosting Coordinator Teacher Workshop 2013. “To increase your sensitivity to other cultures, become more aware of your own.” - Brooks Peterson, Cultural Intelligence.

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Looking Inside and Out Through Our Cultural Lens: Perspectives ON Hosting International Students

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  1. Looking Inside and Out Through Our Cultural Lens: Perspectives ON Hosting International Students Sophie Gardner, U.S. Hosting Coordinator Teacher Workshop 2013

  2. “To increase your sensitivity to other cultures, become more aware of your own.” - Brooks Peterson, Cultural Intelligence

  3. How can we become more aware of our own culture?

  4. 3 P’s and culture • With a strong cultural component present in a language class, students can better make connections to other disciplines, can develop the insights necessary to make comparisons to their own native language and culture, and can discover ways to better participate with and relate to different communities at home and around the world. - Sandy Cutshall, The Language Educator

  5. Our view of the world is shaped by our cultural lens • Dress • Eating habits • Experience • Gender roles • Gestures • Holidays • Language • Leadership • Religious practices and beliefs • Sense of time • Values • Work ethic

  6. Iceberg model

  7. Proverbial values as cultural perspectives

  8. Gaining opportunities to increase knowledge in our native environment gives greater meaning to the time we spend outside of it.

  9. Hosting international students Is a way to engage your students in authentic, meaningful cross-cultural experiences and promote global understanding

  10. “If your eyes weren’t already open to the world, they are after you’ve hosted.” –2012 Host Parent

  11. “You may take the walk you take everyday- but you get to see your own environment through the eyes of someone who’s not there everyday, and it begins to look different.” – 2012 Host Parent

  12. Hosting students increases cultural awareness “[I offer hosting] to expand my students' minds about other cultures and peoples, and broaden both the students and the families perspectives on the world and what it has to offer outside of the town in which they come from” - 2012 Hosting Coordinator

  13. “Our professional development talks often of the importance of making material have value beyond school. The ISE Hosting program does just that. This experience builds bonds among students” - 2012 Hosting Coordinator

  14. “But all in all I can say that this stay helped me a lot in getting to know the American culture, school life, and lifestyle, and my English improved too.” – International Student, Germany

  15. Help your students gain awareness of their own cultural lens through hosting

  16. Volunteering with ISE as a host family has inspired me to…

  17. Have my child visit another country. -2012 Host Parent • Feel less stressful about the unknown for when my son will be doing this. -2012 Host Parent

  18. Look at my own assumptions of what I think is "normal" and realize that there are lots of lifestyle choices - how you dress, what you do, what you eat... -2012 Host Parent

  19. Do it again, and try to get my older son's high school to plan a trip to Spain, and to help provide host families. -2012 Host Parent

  20. Student perspective • Travel. I'm going to France next summer! I mean I already wanted to, but this just makes me want to work even harder in school to make sure I can; it gave me a goal to look forward to when I'm having a tough time. -2012 Host Student

  21. Hosting is one part of a successful language program And the perfect complement to your travels

  22. Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.  - Walter Lippman

  23. Works referenced • Cutshall, Sandy. (April 2012). More than a decade of standards: integrating “cultures” in your language instruction. The Language Educator. Retrieved from http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/TLE_pdf/TLE_Apr12_Article.pdf • ISE “Beyond the Classroom” Wiki site: http://isebeyondtheclassroom.wikispaces.com/Home+Page • Meredith, Dennis. ISE Culture Toolbox Lesson 01: The Nature Of Culture. 2011. • Penstone, James. (March 2011). The Iceberg Model of Culture. Retrieved from http://opengecko.com/interculturalism/visualising-the-iceberg-model-of-culture/ • Peterson, Brooks. Cultural Intelligence: A Guide To Working With People From Other Cultures. Yarmouth, Me.: Intercultural, 2004.

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