Internationalizing Your Instruction
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Internationalizing Your Instruction
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I have learned that internationalizing the healthcare world is a lot different than the other industries. There are a lot of compontent to gaining an understanding of medical treatment within different cultures. Practices come with years of helping patients with different beliefs. Even in today's world we are still learning that all measures of test are now set for both minority and others which are different, for as long as we have known medicine has been one way for years.
Felicia
The UN information was very helpful. I had not thought of my courses in light of how the content applies to several aspects. I think this would be a good way to focus an assignment or module. Overall, I want to focus more content on global aspects. Some courses are easier to think through than others but all of my courses apply in some way to internationl aspects.
I have a lot of ideas of how to rework my projects in a few course to better emphasize learning global perspectives in a way that is authentic and interesting to the student. In one class we spend time researching and presenting on specific food items and their uses, I plan to adjust the topic to provide more emphasis on understanding how the item is used across various cultures and regions. Then, to pull in the UN Sustainability goals, I want to have the students research the environmental and economic impacts of some of our food items and foodways.
I have recently completed a Team Based Learning training that also has me thinking about how I can blend this course content with that training. In an advanced course I want to introduce a TBL project that presents the students with various ways to approach the problem of sustainability within our foodways. I think through group research and planning the students will have a stronger investment in learning the content and defending a solution they feel is personally realistic.
I found the content in this module a great guide to internationalizing my course. The SAGE framework provides a valuable starting point to review and assess current course assignments and make modifications. I will be incorporating changes into the team Marketing Plan Project where by students develop a Marketing Plan for a novel product. This can be expanded for them to also select another country to market it into as well as justify "why" they selected that country based on economical, social, political/ legal differences. Further, the Promotional Strategy element of the project can also include recommendations for advertising in that country as well.
I enjoyed learning about the SAGE framework in this module. I like the simplicity and practicality of the components of Student Choice, Authentic Work, Global Significance, and Exhibition to a Real-World Audience. The last, Exhibition to a Real-World Audience, I find is really important for community college students because I find that many have a hard time presenting their work, receiving feedback, and then improving their work. Having project presentations, professional reviews, or critiques with industry professionals are invaluable experiences to help prepare them for their industry.
This module helped me focus on the SAGE framework. I'm a big fan of these four, student choice, authentic experiences, global experiences, and sharing to a real audience.
It also insipired me to change an additional course learning outcome tied to the final project.
One of the strengths of the UN SDGs is that if you target improving one of them, you will also often improve several others as well. Inside Bill Gates Brain, on Netflix is a good resourse for the clean water SDG, and IREX has great resources for identifying misinformation (one of the ways that institutions can be destabilized).
Student choice is one of the best was to increase student engagement as well (SAGE)
The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals are very interesting to me and I will add some of it to one or more courses that I teach. International manufacturing affects my subject area of Interior Design and sustainability is a matter that has grown in importance in this field in the past 20 years.
This may have been the most immediately useful module so far - the resources and ideas for designing indtruction are things I can tap into to begin revising or designing projects. But the resources will take some time to explore!
The SAGE fromework is a wonderful opportunity for students to gain hands on experience and really experience impactful learning.
I learned several strategies on how to create an international component in my class utilizing the SAGE method. I need more practice in this area.
I am going to add a new assignment that involves authentic work, where the students will create a how-to-text and and a marketing campaign to open a new restaurant.
