FALL 2017 VIRTUAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY 11/8 AND THURSDAY 11/9! SIGN UP HERE! WEDNESDAY 11/8 SESSION #1: 9:15-10:15 AM– “Food Around the World!” (Spain, the Philippines, and China with Navigators Victoria, Josh, and Jonathan) SESSION #2: 12:30-1:30 PM– “Celebrations Around the World” … Continued
The Hofstede Dimensions of Culture The Hofstede dimensions of culture have truly put into perspective the deeper parameters of culture. These dimensions of context, individualism, collectivism, power distance, etc. have helped me see culture through a completely different lens – … Continued
Teaching in my service placement is the highlight of my week. My students in Mrs. Wilkinson’s seventh grade social studies class have exceeded all of my expectations of students their age and constantly surprise me with their understanding and growth. … Continued
One of the concepts that helped me understand global education in the classroom, especially in relation to my service learning placement, was the differentiation between tourist, traveling and global classrooms discussed in the Wisconsin guide for Planning Curriculum in … Continued
Contemporary views of Jamaica are often eclipsed by a “Resort View” which paints the country as an endless terrain of white sand beaches, palm trees, and servants answering your every beck and call. The people there are continually laid back … Continued
This is a reflection paper written on March 12th to reflect my volunteering experience at Miss Baxter’s classroom in Glenwood Elementary School as a Carolina Navigator. Up to now , I have given four cultural presentations in Miss Baxter’s classroom … Continued
This semester, I volunteered in two middle school classrooms every Friday – one a 7th grade English class, the other an 8th grade Social Studies class. I have helped students construct timelines of their lives, write poems which describe their … Continued
This semester I have learned so much with Carolina Navigators! From education theory to learning styles, my Carolina Navigators class has given me the appropriate tools to create and present awesome presentations to NC students. However, most of my volunteering … Continued
“Tips on Teaching: Observing Teacher-Student Interactions in the Wee Morning Hours” Throughout the semester, I have been volunteering with Mr. Cone’s Poverty Reading Group at Carrboro High School; every Wednesday morning, four of us rise before the sun, pile into … Continued
My experience with Carolina Navigators this semester has been amazing! I have only visited one K-12 classroom to give two presentations, one for a seventh grade and another for an eighth grade Spanish class. It was at Smith Middle School. … Continued
I feel so blessed to have been presented with the opportunity to be a part of the Carolina Navigator’s program and I really can’t believe that it took four years (I’m a senior) to discover them!!! As a part of … Continued
Through working with Carolina Navigators, I have gained an immense amount of knowledge about how to share intercultural experiences, how to write lesson plans, how to work with a diverse group of students, how to evaluate my own perspective and … Continued
On October 3rd, 2011 I attended Rochelle Gutiérrez’s presentation “Cultivando Nepantler@s: Rethinking the Knowledge Needed to Teach Mathematics.” Gutiérrez is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her presentation dealt with common setbacks found in teaching mathematics … Continued
Reflecting on our class’s discussion on “Moving Beyond Tolerance in Multicultural Education” by Sonia Nieto I realize that it is the article that has catalyzed the most thought about my perspective on intercultural learning. This article was published in the … Continued
Having the opportunity to work with kids in a classroom setting this semester, has been different than I had expected it to be. It has brought a lot of joy into my afternoons and I can now see why … Continued
Some of my study abroad companions and I at the lovely Catarata de La Fortuna Hello readers! For those of you who may not know, I am a student with Carolina Navigators also enrolled in a concurrent class at UNC. … Continued
Ever since the first day of class, I’ve been increasingly aware of how intercultural education can be approached in such different ways, by different people. From the moment when my classmates put together their own visual representations of what intercultural … Continued
Sondra Anton is a local high school student interning with Carolina Navigators and the Center for Global Initiatives this summer. We’re thrilled she’s working with us. Here’s an interview I conducted with her this week.
