Goal

Create a four-year plan for teaching culture with appropriate themes for each level and instructional activities for each theme. 

Creating a four-year plan for teaching culture

Designing a Plan

• Remember that you want your students to understand the relationships between products, practices and perspectives as outlined in the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. This plan will assume that you have done an activity similar to "Peeling the Identity Onion to inform students about how communities and identity may alter perspectives.. Begin each level with Culture Learning Outcomes (Moran, Chapter 10,  pp107 - 121. .Keep in mind the problems associated with the concepts listed below. All instructional activities should address these issues.
• Beliefs,values,attitudes, and or orientations that may create implicit cultural assumptions, i.e. "world view" of both the native and the target cultures. 
• Over generalizations, value judgments, ethnocentrism, and equality equals sameness. 
• Cultural themes and include findings from your ethnographic project.
  

• All themes should include some kind of discovery activities where students look at similarities and differences between C1 and C2.
  

Grading Rubric

Your four-year plan for teaching culture must contain the following:

• an introduction with a statement of your philosophy for teaching culture;
• how you plan to help students understand the relationships between products, practices, perspectives; communities, and Identity
  
• the themes you plan to develop at each level of language learning;
  
• an explanation of why you have chosen these themes and what values, cultural assumptions, orientations etc. that you expect to include;
• a few examples of instructional activities you might use to teach each theme. These activities must include looking for similarities and differences between C1 and C2 and their relationship to the values, cultural assumptions, orientations etc. mentioned above.
  
• a separate section in your paper for each Level I through IV.
• a conclusion with a summary of your ideas.
• a reference page if you are using ideas gleaned from other sources.

                 Rubric in PDF format to print and turn in with your Four-Year Culture Plan 

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