Practice Context/e-Learning activities/Exploring cultural competence.

e-Learning activity summary
Title:	Exploring cultural competence.
	2 - 3 hours
	Explore your understanding of cultural competence

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Stimulus: Five Competencies for Culturally Competent Teaching and Learning A short commentary to read.

Purpose

To help you articulate your own understanding of cultural competence and the application of this to your work context.

Tasks

:1. Reflect on the stimulus commentary.

Consider the following questions

• What are your thoughts around the five competencies identified?

• Do you agree or disagree with these competencies for teaching practice and why?

2. Talk with colleagues

• Talk further with colleagues and explore their thoughts and approaches to biculturalism and culturally competent teaching.

• Reflect on these discussions. How do your colleagues view points differ from each other and from your own thinking?

• Note your thoughts in your learning journal.

3. Explore the literature

• Review literature that you have already found or search for further literature around cultural competence, biculturalism and teaching.

• Consider - What does the literature suggest regarding best practice? What have you observed in practice?

4. Reflect on your learning around cultural competence and consider your own approach to students

• Record your thoughts so you can look back on these later.
  
  

Learning outcome actions

Expand on and collaboratively share aspects of your learning with others in the course using the Moodle Discussion forum. Collate evidence of your learning for your portfolio. Use the learning from this module to inform the development of your narrative (your practice story) for the portfolio.