How can you promote global awareness in the classroom?

How can you promote global awareness in the classroom?

Teaching Global Citizenship in the Classroom

1. Empower your students as leaders and teachers.
2. Incorporate global stories into your curriculum.
3. Organize penpals for your class.
4. Apply for grants.
5. Take field trips.
6. Take time to reflect on the world around you.
7. Volunteer.
8. Include a lesson on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

What do we learn from other cultures?

Many times, interacting with people from different cultures helps you view life from a different perspective. When you learn about different cultures, you establish new ways of thinking and approaching and solving problems.

How can we maintain respect despite cultural differences?

It includes:

• Developing cultural self-awareness. What influenced your own cultural identity?
• Learn to appreciate and value diverse views. Do not judge views that differ from yours as wrong.
• Avoid imposing your own values.
• Resist stereotyping.
• Learn what you can.
• Accept your own naïveté.

How does culture affect student learning?

Culture includes what people actually do and what they believe. Culture influences greatly how we see the world, how we try to understand it and how we communicate with each other. Therefore, culture determines, to a great extent, learning and teaching styles.

Does attitude affect learning?

A negative attitude limits performance, saps motivation, and inhibits learning. There is no guarantee that you will instantly be able to understand mathematics through elimi-nating a negative attitude about math. Negative attitudes discourage, limit, and even prevent learning, positive change, and growth.

Why is it important to be culturally sensitive?

Cultural sensitivity is important because it allows us to effectively function in other cultures, allows us to respect and value other cultures, and can reduce cultural barriers between professionals and their patients.

How do you become culturally sensitive?

5 steps anyone can take to become more culturally sensitive

1. Be aware of why you want to learn more about other cultures.
2. Educate yourself on intercultural communication.
3. Become aware of your own culture and biases.
4. Let go of any ethnocentric beliefs.
5. Ask questions during intercultural exchanges!