ESOL
Adult Goal 9: Learners will develop and enhance appreciation and respect for individual and cultural diversity.

OBJECTIVES EXAMPLES
Objective A: Learners will appreciate the uniqueness of their own cultures and become aware of the range of cultures represented in the U.S.A.
  • Draw, show pictures, tell stories about own country/culture.
  • Learn greetings in other languages represented in class.
  • Share and taste food from own and classmates' cultures.
  • Plan parties, demonstrations, multicultural projects, interview classmates to get information about other cultures.
  • Share information about birth, marriage, death, and other life events.
  • Discuss customs and traditions in native country.
  • Identify places and people offering help in their own languages, i.e., cultural support groups, advocacy organizations, hotline numbers, etc.
Objective B: Learners will increase awareness of similarities and differences between own cultures and U.S. customs and conventions, and among various cultures represented in the classroom or in the news.
  • Compare their own and U.S. customs and conventions.
  • Prepare celebrations and food for their own and U.S.A. holidays.
  • Celebrate own and each other's cultures through projects such as festivals and cookbooks.
  • Identify, compare, and contrast greetings, customs, values in their countries and U.S.A.
  • Recognize and interpret nonverbal communications (i.e., personal space, posture, facial and body gestures, eye contact) in the U.S.A. as compared to their own countries, etc.

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