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Using Pronunciation to Create a Comfortable Classroom Environment
No full textOften when teachers find themselves out of time, pronunciation is the first to be cut from the lesson plan. In this session, the presenter will offer ways to highlight pronunciation while engaging students and encouraging participation
Experience is the Best Teacher
No full textIf experience truly is the best teacher, as the saying goes, then as teachers, we must provide them. The presenter will explain the methods she used and summarize the results of incorporating experiential learning into a low level intensive English class for newly arrived refugees
Preparing Franklin Academy\u27s Students\u27 in Becoming Interculturally Competent
No full textThis study examines the importance teachers place on teaching intercultural competencies in a Common Core State Standards (CCSS) based curriculum. In addition, this study explores how teaching intercultural competence is evident in their daily instruction. The purpose of this capstone is to understand what professional development and additional resources are required for teachers to learn the knowledge and skills to effectively incorporate intercultural competencies into their daily instruction. A qualitative approach was used to gather data for this study. Data was obtained from interviews with Franklin Academy teachers. Responses were analyzed using Deardorff’s (2008) Pyramid Model of Intercultural Competence and the intercultural competence indicators as a frame of reference. Findings suggest that although Franklin Academy teachers believe it is very important that their students are interculturally competent, there was little evidence demonstrating how such knowledge and skills were implemented in their instruction. In addition, further in-depth professional development and additional available resources were highly recommended by the participants to help improve teaching intercultural competence. However, the majority of teachers were unable to provide specific examples of professional development they would like to see made available. The results of this study have implications for teaching a CCSS based curriculums because the findings support the notion that intercultural competencies need to be embedded into the curriculum in order to prepare U.S. students to become interculturally competent. This study can be used by stakeholders to better understand the importance of including intercultural competence in the CCSS, as well as the necessity of providing professional development and additional resources for teachers. Additionally, findings provide ideas regarding specific additional resources that would benefit educators teaching intercultural competencies.
Keywords: Intercultural competence indicators, interculturally competent students, Common Core State Standards, professional development, model of intercultural competenc
The Green Classroom Initiative: Developing a non-formal educational resource to promote positive youth development in an elementary school in the Central Valley region of Costa Rica.
Get PDFWhile Costa Rica is not the most under-developed country in Central America, it still experiences poverty and school drop outs on par with neighboring countries and some exceptional regions of the United States. The primary focus of this thesis is to discuss how the “Green Classroom” initiative, a Peace Corps Volunteer’s attempt to create sustainable change, is rooted in modern educational theories; and how they have influenced the organizations and practical methodologies used to engineer this project. A secondary focus is on the process the volunteer and vital project partners experienced to create a sustainable educational resource for a primary school in the central valley region of Costa Rica. Survey responses from educators and other school staff offer final insights into the real impact of the Green Classroom as a resource that engages community members at all levels
L1-Influenced Pronunciation: Identity and Discrimination
No full textHow should we treat students\u27 accents in the classroom? The presenter interviewed non-native English speakers in regards to their feelings toward their accent and whether it is a part of their identity. The participants will discuss accent discrimination and its relationship with racism
The Changing Roles and Reputations of Dais in Rural Uttarakhand: An Investigation into the Maternal Health Services of Villages in Okhalkanda Block in Nainital
Get PDFThe dai, once a prominent figure in Indian maternal health, now faces marginalization as the government of India adopts the goal of universal institutional delivery. Under pressure from international discourse that Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs) were more effective at lowering Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) than Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) like dais (World Health Organization), dai training was discontinued and left in the hands of NGOs, while concurrently women and ASHAs were monetarily incentivized for every institutional birth (Park, 419). Yet in rural, isolated, or hilly areas like Okhalakanda block in Uttarakhand, institutional delivery is a long way from universal—only 37% of all deliveries occur in a hospital (Aarohi Arogya Project). The harsh realities of being a woman in an isolated Kumaoni village contribute to the backward motivations of home deliveries: women often have low selfdetermination, must return to work quickly after giving birth, and are not well included into many government services (Capila). They fear the hospital for its cesarean sections and long recovery periods from stitches, feel pressure from mother-in-laws who called on dais in their day, and often do not receive effective counselling about proper ANC, PNC, and institutional delivery. Yet safe and hygienic delivery are the right of every woman—disregarding home deliveries and dais puts the onus on the woman to get to the hospital in order to receive proper services and counselling. In reality, social and logistical factors can impede a woman’s ability or desire to delivery in a hospital. While dai training can seemingly endorse home delivery, it is the only way to improve the health outcomes of the women who are left out of the government ‘universal’ institutional delivery services. The findings recommend that dai training furthermore should focus on including them and their clients in government health services and tracking, as well as filling the counselling gap that the outreach efforts of ASHAs and ANMs have been unable close
Analysis of Media in Rwanda: Internship with the New Times
Get PDFThis report examines the effects and expectations of media in Rwanda today, specifically in reference to the New Times daily newspaper. I spent one month interning with the New Times as a news writer, spending approximately 45 to 50 hours a week with the institution. Within this month, I was able to use both primary research and secondary research to analyze the role of media in Rwanda’s society today. Interviews with head editors of the New Times and conversations with paid journalists from the New Times provided me with much of the information specific to the news outlet, while desk research provided me with more of a background on general media. This research exposed the aims of the New Times and general media within Rwanda to oppose propaganda that may be harmful to societal views. It discusses history of media in Rwanda and the negative effects various types of media have on a society; and the challenges and aims of today’s Rwandan media in addressing the context of a post-genocide society
Así que, ¿qué podía hacer? / So what could I do?
No full textEn primer lugar, comencé a ver campañas de violencia contra las mujeres en las calles, donde las mujeres tenían moretones en sus caras y había un número de teléfono para ayudar. Entonces, una noche le contaba llorando a mi madre anfitriona en Chile, reviviendo mi pasado y al mismo tiempo ella revivía el suyo. Ella me enseñó que llorar es la limpieza del alma así como la importancia de compartir mi historia. Más tarde, en una visita a una escuela veo a una muchacha jugando feliz con los demás niños mientras conversaba con la psicóloga de la escuela quien me informaba el 10% de había sido sexualmente abusado y otro 30% había sido abusado físicamente.
Luego de esta experiencia durante mi trabajo de campo durante una semana en Chapod, presencie cómo las mujeres sacaban adelante a su familia y su comunidad sin mucha ayuda de los hombres. Entonces, conversado con una mujer que ha trabajado por los derechos de la mujer en muchos países de América Latina e incluso en Texas, hizo hincapié en la importancia de incluir a los hombres en la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres. De todas las agencias para las mujeres en la Argentina, ella es uno de sólo siete que trabajan tanto con los abusadores como con los abusados.
Mientras estaba en Argentina conocí a una mujer tan apasionada por la igualdad, que creía que el futuro de las niñas puede cambiar para mejor, en una conversación mientras bebíamos té con el Ministro del Consejo Nacional de mujeres en Argentina. Este Consejo actúa para asegurarse de que en toda la sociedad se respete el derecho de igualdad entre los sexos.
La combinación de estas mujeres fuertes en América del sur me demostró que no estaba sola. De hecho, hay cientos de miles de otras mujeres que siguen siendo abusadas aquí en América Latina. Sin embargo, las mujeres en todas partes están colaborando firmemente para cambiar el destino de las mujeres hacia la igualdad y la anti-discriminación.
En el siguiente ensayo, quiero exponer mi experiencia con el feminismo y el machismo en Buenos Aires, Santiago y Temuco, y a través del uso de estadísticas nacionales, encontrar maniobras eficaces para fomentar la igualdad en mi hogar estado de Texas y finalmente compartir mi historia con el mundo para ayudar a otras mujeres a contar y valorar su propia historia.
First, I began to see violence campaigns against women on the streets, where women had bruises on their faces and there was a telephone number to help. Then one night I would tell her crying to my host mother in Chile, reliving my past and at the same time she relived his. She taught me that crying is the cleansing of the soul as well as the importance of sharing my story. Later, on a visit to a school I see a girl playing happily with the other children while talking to the school psychologist who informed me that 10% had been sexually abused and another 30% had been physically abused.
After this experience during my fieldwork for a week in Chapod, witness how women brought forth their family and community without much help from men. Speaking to a woman who has worked for women\u27s rights in many countries in Latin America and even Texas, she emphasized the importance of including men in the struggle for women\u27s rights. Of all agencies for women in Argentina, she is one of only seven who work with both abusers and abused.
While in Argentina I met a woman so passionate about equality that I believed that the future of girls can change for the better, in a conversation while we drank tea with the Minister of the National Council of Women in Argentina. This Council acts to ensure that the right to equality between the sexes is respected throughout society.
The combination of these strong women in South America showed me that I was not alone. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of other women who continue to be abused here in Latin America. However, women everywhere are working hard to change the fate of women towards equality and anti-discrimination.
In the following essay, I want to expose my experience with feminism and machismo in Buenos Aires, Santiago and Temuco, and through the use of national statistics, find effective maneuvers to promote equality in my home state of Texas and finally share my story with The world to help other women count and value their own history
Evaluating a Squirrel Monkey Troop in Natural Rehabilitation: An Assessment of Population and Behavior of Saimiri sciureus in Preparation for Relocation from Sumak Allpa to Yasuní National Park
Get PDFNatural rehabilitation and translocation of primate species provide the opportunity for recovery of individuals and repopulation of species in the wild. However, there are few successful examples of primate translocation around the world, and no successful cases in Ecuador. This study assesses the population and overall behavioral activity of a troop of Saimiri sciureus on Sumak Allpa Island, Orellana, Ecuador from November 6th to November 27th, 2016. This specific troop, referred to as the Yasuní troop, is scheduled to be translocated from Sumak Allpa to Yasuní National Park in March or April of 2017, and would be the first successful translocation of a primate group in Ecuador. Field observations in the natural habitat of Saimiri sciureus and at the platform that will be used in the translocation process were used to examine the Yasuní troop’s population composition and behavioral activity, and assess whether this troop will be able to withstand the stresses of the translocation process and survive in the wild. The population of the troop was found to be stable, with healthy yearly birth and survival rates, and behavioral budgeting was found to be comparable to that of a wild troop of Saimiri sciureus. These observations are strong indicators that the Yasuní troop will be able to successfully function as a wild troop
Sentido de comunidad: Conectando la teoría con la práctica en el sector La Mariscal, Quito, Ecuador / Sense of community: Connecting theory with practice in the Mariscal sector, Quito, Ecuador
No full textEn este ensayo, analizaré las maneras en que la teoría del sentido de comunidad se traduce en la práctica. Para cumplir con este análisis, me enfoco en una organización barrial, Operación Urbana Sostenible (OPUS) – La Mariscal, que se ubica en un barrio al norte de Quito, Ecuador. Después de repasar la literatura académica actual y presentar el marco teórico, proveo información básica de fondo tanto del barrio La Mariscal como de la organización OPUS. Luego, considero la temática de la aplicación de la teoría del sentido de comunidad a través de un análisis de tres temas principales que OPUS ha utilizado para generar un sentido de comunidad: (1) historia, valores y visión compartidos, (2) empoderamiento y (3) espacios comunes. De cada uno, explico las maneras en que se conecta al sentido de comunidad y cómo el trabajo de OPUS contribuye a tal principio. Finalmente, considero las áreas de investigación futura.
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In this essay, I will discuss the ways in which the theory of community sense translates into practice. To fulfill this analysis, I focus on a neighborhood organization, Sustainable Urban Operation (OPUS) - La Mariscal, which is located in a neighborhood north of Quito, Ecuador. After reviewing the current academic literature and presenting the theoretical framework, I provided background information on both the La Mariscal neighborhood and the OPUS organization. Then, I consider the theme of applying the theory of community sense through an analysis of three main themes that OPUS has used to generate a sense of community: (1) shared history, values and vision, (2) empowerment and (3) common spaces. From each, I explain the ways in which it connects to the sense of community and how the work of OPUS contributes to such a principle. Finally, I consider future research areas