3.1 Who?
3.2 Why?
3.3 What?
3.4 How?
3.5 The
evaluation
3.6 Final
checklist
3.7 Lessons
learnt
3.8 Models
for timetabling
3.9 Sample
questionnaire
3.8 Models for timetabling intercultural communication
workshops
In what follows, we would like to give some examples for workshop plans
and programmes that we used in our National Training Events. In section
6.2 you will find further examples.
3.8.1 Example for the trainers' plan of a 1-day workshop for primary and secondary school English teachers
(based on a one-day workshop organised and held by Misa Čaňková, co-facilitated by Ildikó Lázár in the Czech Republic on 21 April, 2005)
|
Time |
Topic |
Aims |
Activities& Materials |
|
9-9:45a.m |
Introduction
Icebreaker
Defining key terms |
To introduce topic
To get to know each other, find
out about needs
To reach common understanding |
Cards, posters, OHP,
HO* with definitions |
|
10/11:30a.m |
Intercultural activities based
on Mirrors
and windows
Culture in coursebooks |
To link theory to practice
(to discuss notions like ethnocentrism, acculturation, stereotypes,
thick definitions, useful task types)
To provide participants with techniques
to incorporate intercultural communication |
Scissors, pictures
Courting / a critical incident
(MW* p.96);
Role-plays cards
(MW p.86-88);
Ethnographic tasks (with task
sheets) based on MW |
|
12-1:30p.m |
Intercultural activities
from other sources |
To give further ideas for activities,
To provide participants with techniques
applicable to their own teaching materials |
Cards,
HO with proverbs
HO with excerpts from literature |
|
1:45 / 3p.m |
Needs and difficulties /
group discussion
Basic ingredients, content areas
and methods of intercultural communication training
|
Recommending solutions to participants'
difficulties of incorporating culture in language teaching
Summary |
Blackboard, colored chalk
HO with summary
HO with recommended reading |
*HO stands for handouts and MW stands for Mirrors
and
Windows in the tables.
3.8.2 Example for the trainers' plan for
a 2-day workshop for pre- and in-service teacher trainers, mentors
(based on a workshop organised by Aina Kačkere, held by Ildikó Lázár and Aina Kačkere in Riga, Latvia on May 13 / 14, 2005)
Day 1
|
Time |
Topic |
Aims |
Activities &
Materials |
|
10-11:30a.m |
Introduction
Icebreaking and needs analysis
Defining key terms
Guest speakers |
To introduce topic and presenters
To find out more about participants'
needs
To reach common understanding
To get to know each others'
expertise |
Cards, posters
OHP
Power point
*HO with definitions |
|
12.00-1p.m |
Intercultural activities based
on Mirrors and Windows |
To reinforce the discussion of
notions like culture, ethnocentrism, acculturation, stereotypes,
thick definitions, etc.
To provide participants with techniques
and useful task types to incorporate culture in their teaching
|
Scissors, pictures
Courting / a critical incident
(*MW p.96);
Role-plays cards
(MW p.86-88);
Ethnographic tasks (with task
sheets) based on MW |
|
2-3p.m |
Needs and difficulties /
group discussion
Course design /
Group discussion |
To recommend solutions to participants'
difficulties of incorporating culture in language teaching
To learn how to design an intercultural
communication course |
Posters
HO with models for course design |
|
3:30-5p.m |
Intercultural activities |
To provide participants with further
practical ideas to incorporate the intercultural dimension |
Task sheets
Role cards
HO with summary of activities |
Day 2
|
Time |
Topic |
Aims |
Activities &
Materials |
|
9-10.30a.m |
Intro to research in ICC
ICC in teaching materials |
To present research and development
in the area of study
To learn to adapt coursebooks |
OHP
Coursebooks
Copies of units from the course
books |
|
11-12.00a.m |
Course design |
To give guidelines for ICC course
design |
HO with further examples of courses |
|
13.00-14.00p.m |
Assessment in ICC |
To learn how intercultural communicative
competence could be assessed |
HO with summary |
|
14.30-16.00p.m |
Intercultural activities based
on Mirrors and Windows
Evaluation of the workshop |
To reinforce theory with some
more practical ideas.
To evaluate the workshop |
Role-play cards
HO based on MW
Evaluation sheets |
*HO stands for handouts and MW stands
for Mirrors and Windows
in the tables.
3.8.3 Example for a three- day workshop programme given to participants prior to a National Training Event (Poland):
Programme de la formation COFRAN
Sulejówek - du 2 au 4 septembre 2005
L'atelier de communication interculturelle
"Miroirs et fenêtres".
|
Vendredi,
2/09/2005
|
||
|
13.00 / 14.00 |
Déjeuner |
|
|
14 :30 /16 :00
Session
1 |
Prise de contact Introduction.
Attentes des participants. |
Gabriela S. Matei & Renia
Kowalska |
|
16 :00 /16 :30
|
Pause café |
|
|
16 :30 /18 :00
Session
2 |
Définitions, cadre théorique
Rétroaction (feedback)
|
Gabriela S. Matei |
|
18.00-19.00 |
Dîner |
|
|
Samedi,
3/09/05
|
||
|
9 :00 / 10:30
Session
3 |
Stéréotypes
|
Gabriela S. Matei |
|
10:30 / 11:00 |
Pause café |
|
|
11 :00 /13 :00
Session
4 |
Petits exercices sur les stéréotypes:
D'un simple regard.
Une affaire d'opinion.
|
Renia Kowalska |
|
13 :00 /14 :30 |
Déjeuner |
|
|
14 :30 /16 :00
Session
5
|
Chanter la tolérance avec
Julos Beaucarne / travail sur le texte. |
Renia Kowalska |
|
16 :00 /16:30 |
Pause café |
|
|
16 :30 /18:00
Session
6 |
Miroirs & Fenêtres 1
Rétroaction (feedback) |
Gabriela S. Matei |
|
18.00-19.00 |
Dîner |
|
|
19.00-20.00 |
Comment aborder l'interculturel
avec les documents audiovisuels et les documents multimédia.
|
Katarzyna Sawko - déléguée
pédagogique Hachette Livre Polska |
|
Dimanche,
4/09/05
|
||
|
9:00 / 10:20
Session
7 |
Miroirs & Fenêtres 2
Nos identités multiculturelles
|
Gabriela S. Matei |
|
10:20 / 10:40 |
Pause café |
|
|
10:40 / 11:40
Session
8 |
Conclusions et plans d'action |
Gabriela & Renia |
|
11:40 - 12:00 |
Bilan et évaluation de
la formation. |
Gabriela & Renia |
|
12 :30 /13 :30 |
Déjeuner |
|
(The programme also contained the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of the organisers)
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