Culture and Teaching: International Etiquette

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Our Goal and Purpose

• Bring awareness of other cultures to promote respect through mutual communication that will lower misunderstanding.

• Meanwhile, learn various activities to apply in the classroom.

Pre-Task

• Unscramble the letters to make a word:

ITTTUQEEE

Online Stopwatch: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

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What do you think the word could be?

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Answer:

ETIQUETTE

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Answer:

ETIQUETTE

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What do you know about “International Etiquette?”

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Transition

Transition

• We will now take a quiz online• This will be done with all of us together• We will be able to check our

understanding of etiquette in different parts of the world

Online Quiz: http://www.fekids.com/img/kln/flash/DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf

International Etiquette

Let’s begin our tasks!

~ Physical Contact ~

Physical Contact

Physical ContactTaiwan Western Countries

Greeting Waving handsNoddingSay, “Ni –Hao”Ask, “Have you eaten?”

Shaking handsHuggingKissingNZ – ‘Hongi’

Signs of affection PraisingPatting your head/shoulderEmbracing in arms (young)Holding hands (young)

HuggingKissingHi-FiveSaying, “I love you!”constantly

Physical distance Keeping an appropriate distance

Keep a boundary between people.

Eye contacts Students are expected to show respect and gratitude to teachers at all time.

Students are expected to look at the teachers as a way of showing respect.

Physical Contact – Activity/task• Showing posters or pictures of people greeting/signs

of affection/physical contact/eye contacts of different countries.

• Role-play : Divide teachers into 4 groups and each group will show various ways of manners in Taiwan or in the western countries.

~ Personal Relations ~

Personal RelationsTaiwan Western Countries

Inside the work environment

• Polite and respectful between colleagues.

• Friendly, more lay- back and relax.

Outside the work environment

• Still polite and keeping personal privacy

• Keeping privacy for personal and social life

Family tie • Close-bond• Family/relatives live

close by

• Loose-bond• Children are expected

to move out when they enter college

Personal Relations – Activity/Task

Things that are in common

Characteristics of the personal relations in the western countries

Characteristics of the personal relations in Taiwan

Making your own Van Diagram

~ Family Structure ~

Family Structure

• Who is in your family?• order of importance, or in charge• Have students write down the family

members in their house.• Then use the family member names to

place them on the board.

Family Structure• Now use the other paper and do the same

for what you think is the typical American family.

• Order of importance• Show the word extended on board to

show what Americans call the family and what they call extended family.

• Discuss changes in American family due to divorce (50%+), single parent families, etc.

~ Family Background ~

Family Background

• Family Background• In Taiwan, China and Taiwan• Hakka is a place or tribe in China so that

counts as China.• Aboriginal counts as Taiwan.• Growing trend of Taiwanese marrying

Indonesian

Family Background

• Hand out maps.• Have students place the letters for the

appropriate people to show where they might have come from.

• W-white B-black L-latino M-Middle Eastern• A-asian• After they have filled out map, show ppt

showing where they might have come from.

Where are your ancestors from?

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~ Meal Manners ~

Meal Manners

• Get together with your group and make a list of at least 3 kinds of food that you like from Taiwan.

• Compare the foods you like

Meal Manners

• Now, make a list of at least 3 kinds of food if you were from the country in your name tag

• When finished, get the envelope and check the foods you listed with the ones printed on your page

Food: http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/80dishes http://www.factmonster.com/science/food/around-world.html

Meal Manners

Meal Manners

• Let’s watch a very short video about a Foreigner who visits an Asian family for a meal.

• Discuss all the differences between cultures according to what you see in the video.

Youtube Video: http://youtu.be/bdeFdFEbuqk

Meal Manners

• This is an interesting site where you can find one of kind facts about food around the world.

Fun Facts: http://stuffucanuse.com/strange_food.htm

~ Traveling ~

Traveling

Traveling

• Take a few minutes with your group to discuss how your “country” would handle things in each type of transportation

• What do you think would be the proper reaction? Why?

~ School Environment ~

School Environment

• Let’s watch a video about different schools and student in different parts of the world

Youtube Video: http://youtu.be/TPZylMTIx0o

School Environment

TAIWAN OTHER

School Environment

• Q & A

• Which of these things mentioned do you think would be most beneficial to apply in your school/all Taiwanese schools?

Fun Facts: http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-education-around-world

Transition

• Let’s watch a short video to summarize everything we’ve said today.

• Any final thoughts?

Youtube Video:

International Etiquette

Time to wrap it up!

Post-Task

Post-Task

• There is now a Final Assessment• Simply asks about the different topics we

discussed• It is a great way to measure everyone’s

performance and comprehension

Thank you for your time!