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    This document summarizes a presentation given by Lois Oestreich and Janet Brohm at Salt Lake Community College about retaining diverse student populations through cross-cultural communication. It discusses barriers like cultural conflict in classrooms and different communication styles. It provides activities and strategies for teachers to improve interactions between students from various cultural backgrounds, such as having students role play cross-cultural scenarios and considering different factors that motivate each generation. The presentation emphasizes developing community partnerships and surveying students to better understand cultural influences.

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    Lois Oestreich & Janet Brohm

    Salt Lake Community College


    Department of Education
    February 2012

    Introduction

    Retention of diverse student populations


    Cultural conversations
    Cross-cultural communication barriers
    Y-Size your classroom
    Community partnerships & student surveys

    Brief Background

    A Freud Minute: what comes to mind


    Culture
    Ethnicity
    Cross-cultural communication

    James A. Banks
    Visible and invisible culture
    Draw from K-12 work with ELLs

    What are we seeing?

    Cultural conflict in our classrooms


    Effective cross-cultural communication
    We need to develop tools
    How can you motivate students from different
    cultural backgrounds?

    Improve interactions
    Increased communications
    Reduced misunderstandings

    Cross-cultural abacus

    EACH GROUP:
    1. Choose ONE FACILITATOR/OBSERVER
    2. Facilitator reads card & assigns roles
    to 4 others in group

    GOAL: Make the TALLEST STANDING
    STRUCTURE

    TIME: 8 minutes

    DEBRIEF: How does this activity connect
    in your classroom? How does this activity
    connect with cultural conversations?

    The Past vs. the Present


    vs. the Future

    Cross-cultural communication barriers


    Various communication styles
    Become aware of the dimensions of cultural
    diversity in each of your classes

    Story-telling

    Cultural identities
    Cultural histories
    Watch: what do you hear?
    Listen: what do you see?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=cSbVqFvf4EM&feature=fvsr

    Activity

    Barriers in the classroom


    Small groups

    Y-Size Our
    Classrooms

    Generations and cultures are not boxes: they


    are clues on how to manage diverse classrooms.
    Jason Dorsey
    Multigenerational collision happening in the classroom

    Communication
    Motivation
    Innovation
    Teamwork
    Engagement
    Professionalism
    Leadership

    Generational Shock

    Katy Perry
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw&ob=av2e

    Ma and Pa Kettle
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU5LoCLGMdQ

    Pink Floyd
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs35t2xFqdU

    Four facts to set the tone:


    Y: parents are Boomers who saved their children
    Boomers were trained to outwork everyone else
    Y: need instant gratification & feel entitled
    Boomers feel they need to work hard and will want
    specific direction

    Demographics

    Defining four generations:


    Gen Y: Born 1978 through the new millennium
    Generation X: Born 1965 1977
    Baby Boomers: Born 1946 1964
    Matures: Born pre-1946

    Boomers write notes in cursive.Gen-Y does not


    know how to read cursive
    Gen-Y texts: Boomers dont get it

    Which of the following means the


    most to you?

    Elvis joins the Army


    Jimi Hendrix dies
    MTV debuts
    Kurt Cobain dies

    Generational fact:
    You are over 30 if you spell out the words in your
    text messages
    You are over 40 if you use commas

    Another example.

    Can you decode:

    &#*% (Matures and Boomer typewriter phrase)


    OMG!!
    4ever
    2cool
    L8R
    Heyy or Helloo
    LOL
    BFF

    Activity.

    Table activity:
    Using the speech bubbles, how does text talk
    make its presence in your courses?
    How do you respond?

    Do you.

    --foster creativity, innovation, and risk-taking in


    your classroom?
    --provide your students with a majors map: how
    does this course connect with the big picture?
    --consider your students rising stars?
    --provide leadership/mentoring for students?

    MAKE THE FIRST DAY MEMORABLE


    These are the kids who all won the trophy

    Teacher for the day

    Set up one goal for your Gen Y students


    Have one or a small group assume classroom
    leadership for part of one teaching day
    Students will create a presentation method,
    assessment method, and a key assignment
    Students will prepare, teach, and grade
    (I do not count the grade)

    I am entitled

    Prevalent Gen Y mindset


    Instant gratification: personal
    acknowledgement
    If I show up most of the time, I deserve an A
    Big expectations
    Tech dependent
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=xXME0Y0P_Cg

    Activity

    How do you motivate your students?


    List at least five ways

    Now, consider a multi-generational classroom


    How might you modify each of the five ways to
    fit all four generations you are likely to have in
    your classroom?
    Note: have you ever asked students what
    motivates them?

    Retention

    Why do students drop a course?


    How might culture influence this decision?
    What can we, as faculty, do to increase
    retention?
    Is negotiation something you would offer to
    students?
    Success: what can we do, as teachers, to
    increase course and program success?

    Community Partnerships

    Service learning opportunities


    Connect with or develop community
    partnerships that address a wide-variety of
    cultures
    What service learning opportunities do you
    offer?
    How can we increase effective community
    partnerships which address diversity?

    End Notes

    Student Engagement Techniques Barkley


    Brain-Rules Medina
    Y-Size Your Business Dorsey
    Strategies for Teaching ELLs Diaz-Rico
    Classroom Instruction That Works Hill & Flynn

    Thank you

    for joining us on this adventure


    into cultural communication!

    --Lois

    and Janet

    If there is time..

    Families
    Family comes first, school second
    Im a first generation college student. My family
    exerts a great deal of pressure for me to
    succeed.

    If there is time.

    Language.
    I dont get the jokes in class
    I try to keep up with conversations in the
    classroom but I cannot
    I am bilingual which helps me in our SLCC
    classes understand other students who struggle
    with English
    It is a HUGE barrier

    If there is time..

    I just have different views of what learning is all


    about. What our textbooks say and what I believe
    to be true of people just dont match. Is that my
    culture?
    I am Mormon. It does affect my work at SLCC. I
    dont want to meet on weekends for group projects
    and often other students make rude remarks.
    I am NOT Mormon and want to meet with class
    groups on weekends. I work full time during the
    week.

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