Thailand, ASEAN, Teaching and Learning 20 September 2013

The Five Cs Thailand and ASEAN The Royal Distance Learning Foundation American Embassy RELO Office TOT Public Company Ltd.

Review and Reflection Culture Creativity Communication Collaboration Critical Thinking

The ASEAN Region

Create a visual – mind-map Show how the 5 Cs are interrelated. Work with a partner or those at your table. Be creative. Be bold. There is no wrong answer!

Here is one view Collaboration Critical Thinking Communication Culture Creativity

Here is another view Culture Creativity Critical Thinking Communication Collaboration

Look at the two models again What message does each one convey? How are they different?

Here is one view Collaboration Critical Thinking Communication Culture Creativity

Here is another view Culture Creativity Critical Thinking Communication Collaboration

How about your view? Lets see a few images from each of the sites.

So, what do our students need? Culture Creativity Critical Thinking Communication Collaboration

With a partner The topic is: A Healthy Plan for Diet and Exercise Think of 5 activities – one for each of the 5Cs – that you could do with your students: Culture Creativity Critical Thinking Communication Collaboration

Sharing from Each Site Lets hear several examples! Be Bold Be Brave There are No Wrong Answers!!!

An Example with Healthy Diet and Exercise Culture How does Thailand compare with other ASEAN Countries in terms of diet and exercise? How can we find out? How does culture affect choices that people make in their diets and exercise?

Diet and Exercise Continued Creativity How are people creative about diet and exercise? What are creative ways to think about diet? Exercise?

More on Diet and Exercise... Critical Thinking How can our critical thinking skills be applied to this topic? How do High Order Thinking Skills influence our choices in diet and exercise?

Diet and exercise... Communication What forms of communication influence our habits? Advertisements? Advice from our doctor? What our mother tells us to do? Etc?

Finally... Collaboration In what ways do we collaborate? With creating our diets? With deciding how and when to exercise?

Your Turn! Work with a partner again. Select a topic that might cover in your classes. Come up with an activity for each of the 5 Cs. Well share them in a few minutes.

Your final projects... Any questions or updates?

Thank you!!! Thank you for being here, For participating, For your hard work as teachers, For the good work you do every day!