My Role in the Broader School Context

SCHOOL

Mission Statement

"To build an academically superior educational
institution that focuses on active and collaborative student learning."

"Our diverse and
multicultural student body will consist of more mature and/or educationally motivated
learners preparing for a career or further education."

Staff Induction

"Bring the new employee closer to the company's culture" (Stirzaker, 2004, p. 33).

"Period between the employee's starting work and eventually becoming fully integrated and competent" (Stirzaker, 2004, p. 33).

"Makes [employees] feel welcome and familiarizes them with people they will work with, their surroundings, and the organizations routines...reducing confusion and encouraging them to become productive" (Stirzaker, 2004, p. 33).

Environment

Promoting Diversity

Safe Learning Environment

Positive Student Ethos: Voices are Heard

Physical Structure

IMPACT: Employee and student buy in to the mission statement helps to ensure a safe and encouraging learning environment, where difference and diversity are promoted and celebrated. In turn, overall learning is enhanced.

FACULTY/STAFF

Professional Learning Community

"Shift from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning" (DuFour, 2004, p. 1).

"A group of practitioners working together using a structured process of enquiry to focus on a specific area of their teaching to improve learner outcomes and....raise school standards"(Lwodraeth Cymru Welsh Government, 2013).

Collaboration

IMPACT: Role modelling collaborative and professional behavior to students; Working with colleagues to expand on ideas and pursue innovative change; Increasing understanding through the sharing of unique experiences

COMMUNITY

Service Learning

Cooperative Education Agreements/Practicum

Volunteering

"A course based....education experience in which students participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and reflect on the service activity...to gain further understanding of course content,,,,and an enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility" Lawson & Firestone, 2017, p. 310).

Partnerships

Classroom Presentations

Filed Trips

IMPACT: Learning from community partners lived experiences to help reflect on cultural challenges and successes; Utilizing service learning to help engage students in activity that directly impacts their communities; Can lead to increased cultural awarenss and intercultural competence and lead to exposure to various career opportunities

CLASSROOM

Instructor/Teacher

Curriculum as Process

"Curriculum is not a physical thing, but rather the interaction of teachers, students and knowledge" (Smith, 2000).

"Curriculum is what actually happens in the classroom and what people do to prepare and evaluate" (Smith, 2000).

a) Creative, Learning Driven, Dynamic, Living, Purposeful b) Interactions, Feedback, Projects, Content, Homework, Assignments, Tests

Students

Collaboration

Dilemmas

Reflection

Promoting Intercultual Competence

Cognitive

1. Cultural Self-Awareness 2. Culture-General Knowledge 3. Culture-specific knowledge 4. Interaction Analysis (Bennett, 2011)

Affective

1. Curiosity 2. Cognitive Flexibility 3. Motivation 4. Open mindedness (Bennett, 2011)

Behavioral Skills

1. Relationship Building Skills 2. Behavioral Skills: Listening, Problem Solving 3. Empathy 4. Information Gathering Skills (Bennett, 2011)

IMPACT: Encouraging globally minded, empathetic, curious students who believe in and practice intercultural competence; Removing stereotypes and stigmas developed from preconceptions and perceptions