Category: Intercultural Understanding

• Adopting an Inquiry Stance in Honouring All Languages

  

  Photo credit: danielle-macinnes-iulgi9pwetu-unsplash How can I get started? I had a lovely conversation with a fellow teacher recently. Someone who is passionate about honouring all languages in classrooms and communities. A teacher who works tirelessly to gather resources to be able to meet multilingual learners where they are, so they can best access all learning…

  jennyofee

  April 13, 2023

  Classroom Practice, Intercultural Understanding, Learning Community, Multilingual Learning

  Honouring all languages, languages, Multilingual Learning, multilingualism

• What’s in a name?

  

  I miss the puzzle of learning names. As a School Principal I used to love greeting families, learning student names and being part of the early morning routine welcoming everyone into school. I struggled, I got names wrong, I mixed up pronunciation, put the accent in the wrong place and from time to time muddled…

  jennyofee

  August 25, 2022

  Classroom Practice, Intercultural Understanding, Learning Community, Multilingual Learning, school leadership

  belonging, community, identity, inclusivity, languages, names

• Agency, Advocacy and Multilingualism

  

  Empowering young learners to share their voice, to take action, to advocate for themselves and others, and to engage in all aspects of learning in local and global issues is crucial. Communities hold space for this agency and are central to creating and fostering a climate in which this can thrive. It seems logical that…

  jennyofee

  August 15, 2022

  Collaboration, Intercultural Understanding, Leadership, Learning Community, Multilingual Learning, school leadership

  advocacy, community, language diversity, multilingualism

• Multilingual Voices

  

  We often hear and use phrases like ‘student agency’, ‘student voice’, ‘student action’ in our daily conversations about learning. I continue to be fascinated about language acquisition and growth; the factors that accelerate and foster this, and those that inhibit language development. In an international school community, in fact I would argue in the majority…

  jennyofee

  May 9, 2021

  Intercultural Understanding, Learning attitudes, Learning Community, Multilingual Learning

  languages, multilingualism, student voice, translanguaging

• A ‘learning buzz’ in the virtual learning world

  I recently wrote about missing the sense of, ‘a learning buzz‘, during these times where many of us have moved to virtual learning spaces. It made me wonder, how can you generate a ‘learning buzz’ in this virtual space? It of course would be fruitless and frustrating to try to copy and paste the same…

  jennyofee

  January 10, 2021

  Classroom Practice, Collaboration, Intercultural Understanding, Multilingual Learning, Technology Integration

  classroom culture, environment, learning buzz, Multilingual Learning, virtual

• Reflections on Intercultural Understanding

  I recently concluded two days of listening, exploring and learning about developing intercultural understanding within our school communities. As someone who signed up to participate in the course, I am already committed to the critical nature with which we must address promoting intercultural understanding. Evidence is all around us signalling the need for us to…

  jennyofee

  July 31, 2020

  Connected Learning, Intercultural Understanding, Learning attitudes, Multilingual Learning

  community, Diversity, Inclusion, Intercultural Understanding, perspectives, Sustainable Development Goals