Anne Fox ApS

Year: 2015

  • Home-made clocks

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    Although this one relates to school rather than adult education, the case of the clock that a teacher thought was a bomb illustrates many aspects of the need for culturally responsive teaching.

  • CRT & the brain

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    Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students  This is a book by Zaretta Hammond which was published this year by Corwin Press and is an excellent reference even for those of us working in adult education. Hammond takes us through the brain processes which both lead…

  • CRT Webinar

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    Thanks to everyone who attended my session on culturally responsive teaching yesterday as part of the Fall Blog Festival. It wasn’t easy to enter the webinar room so if you missed it, the 30 minute recording is below: One of the most powerful things that came out of the session for me was the importance…

  • Fall Blog Festival

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    Meet me at the Fall Blog Festival where I will be exploring what culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is and why we need to address the issue in our classrooms (from K12 to adult). Find out what CRT requires of the teacher and a few of the practical approaches you can take starting tomorrow. I will…

  • Let’s make a European plan!

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    I am looking for partners to join me on a new MOOC which started today. If you are interested in how to help educational organisations develop their internationalisation (or a European Development Plan for EU funding) then it would be great to work with you. This is a 11 week learning project.

  • Global Collaboration Day

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    Why would you want to involve others in an already culturally diverse classroom? In the last podcast I gave a shout out to Global Collaboration Day (GCD)on September 17th. This is a new initiative but follows in the footsteps of others such as Skype in the Classroom, Flat Classroom (now Flat Connections) and the Day…

  • CRT & Cooperative learning

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    Cooperative Learning or CL is one strategy that has been adapted for intercultural groups of adults here in Denmark. CL is based on the premise that all of us are better than one of us and that in turn is based on research showing the effectiveness of group learning from the 1930s. CL is based…

  • Go out!

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    One way of widening the cultural lens of your students is to go out and meet new cultures. This need not mean costly and time-consuming travel abroad though that is probably the most valuable intercultural experience. Sometimes this can mean just a focused outing in the local area. Most urban areas these days display elements…

  • Stereotyping: just lazy thinking?

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    Part of the argument in favour of empathy is that we are born empathetic creatures. However there are also other forces acting in the opposite direction. These lead to stereotyping as a sort of default behaviour when we don’t know anything else about the person or people standing in front of us. So stereotyping is…

  • Empathy: the key intercultural skill

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    We have looked at how cultural differences reflect differences in behaviourial norms and how these norms are based on differences in the values that we prioritise. We now need a tool for understanding these differences. Developing empathetic skills is one way of getting to the root of the way in which another person’s different sets of values leads to…