A training for college faculty

1. The Global Classroom
TNT Development 2011©

2. 100315342

3. What do you want to learn from this session
today?
How much or what type of intercultural
experience do you have?
How do you plan to use the skills and knowledge
from this session?
What specific questions do you have or areas of
evaluation would you like to explore?

4. Successful intercultural interactions can be
life changing. They can inspire, motivate,
encourage, and excite us to explore
cultural differences.
Negative intercultural interactions can
create frustration, anxiety, disappointment,
and resistance to engaging cultural
differences.

5. Differences exist, even though we don’t
always know what they are, we
experience them.
Making the effort to change and adapt
our behavior creates different feelings
ranging from excitement and creativity
to frustration and exhaustion.

6. High Partner Attractiveness
Integration Assimilation
High Cultural Low Cultural
Preservation Preservation
Separation Marginalization
Low Partner Attractiveness

7. Open-minded
Sense of humor
Ability to cope with failure
Communicativeness
Flexibility and adaptability
Curiosity
Positive and realistic expectations
Tolerance for difference and ambiguity
Positive regard for others
A strong sense of self
Cultural knowledge

8. A combination of our personal, cultural and
universal experiences which inform our
values, beliefs and behaviors.
People are different around the world. Their needs,
however, are the same. How they satisfy their needs
is different, and that is what we mean by CULTURE.
John Condon

9. How did you feel about the process? What did you learn?
What differences emerged in the group as you described
behaviors that demonstrate certain values?
Do any of these behaviors get in the way of valuing
diversity or of being inclusive?
Which behaviors are necessary for learners to succeed in
your academic institution and/or the US workforce?
How can we communicate the necessity for this
behavioral expectation in way that is respectful of your
learner’s differences?

10. Increasing cultural self-awareness is a
key component to increasing ones
ability to be effective and appropriate in
intercultural situations.
“Culture hides much more than it reveals, and
strangely enough what it hides, it hides most
effectively from its own participants. Years of study
have convinced me that the real job is not to
understand foreign culture but to understand our
own.”
Edward Hall

11. “Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in
intercultural situations based on one’s intercultural
knowledge, skills, and attitudes (Dr. Darla Deardorff, 2008)
Attitudes:
•Respect (valuing other cultures, cultural diversity)
•Openness (to intercultural learning and to people from other cultures,
withholding judgment)
•Curiosity and discovery (tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty)
Skills:
•To listen, observe, and interpret
•To analyze, evaluate, and relate
Knowledge:
•Cultural self-awareness
•Deep understanding and knowledge of culture
•Culture-specific information
•Sociolinguistic awareness

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