Teaching/Supervising Across Cultures (W)

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Overview

This workshop will assist teachers and program supervisors in creating an environment that supports effective learning and high performance, inclusive of all cultures.

Details

What makes good teaching or supervising? How can we motivate, encourage and coach our learners or employees – especially when they come from different cultures? In this fun and lively workshop, participants will learn and practice actions that excellent teachers and supervisors take to create an environment that supports effective learning and high performance.

When

December 4, 2008 from 01:00 pm to 04:30 pm

Where

• Holyoke Community College
• Kittredge Center - Room 301
• 303 Homestead Avenue
• Holyoke, MA 01040

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Topics

ABE, ESOL, GED, Other Curriculum & Instruction, Trainings for Directors

Multi-session attendance required

no

Contact info

Michele Sedor
msedor@hcc.mass.edu
(413) 552-2442

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction

Learning objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• name five qualities of good teaching/supervising
• name and practice 2 actions that good teachers and supervisors do to create an environment that supports effective learning and best work
• describe their awareness of the unconscious nature of culture and its effect on behavior and thinking in a learning and working environment
• explain their understanding of the experience of learning and working in a non-native environment -- and of what it takes to learn and work well.
  

Presenters

Kate Koski, CultureWorks Consulting

Presenters Bio

Kate is the founder and principal of CultureWorks Consulting. She holds a doctorate focused on intercultural communication and an M.A. in intercultural management and a B.A. in conflict resolution. She has provided training to teachers and managers in cross cultural communication, multicultural group dynamics, and conflict resolution throughout New England.

Host RSC

West Massachusetts Region

PDPs

no