Culture and Teaching: International Etiquette Presented By:

Our Goal and Purpose Bring awareness of other cultures to promote respect through mutual communication that will lower misunderstanding. Meanwhile, learn various activities to apply in the classroom.

Pre-Task Unscramble the letters to make a word: ITTTUQEEE Online Stopwatch:

Pre-Task What do you think the word could be?

Pre-Task Answer: ETIQUETTE

Pre-Task Answer: ETIQUETTE

Pre-Task What do you know about “International Etiquette?”

Pre-Task

Transition

We will now take a quiz online This will be done with all of us together We will be able to check our understanding of etiquette in different parts of the world Online Quiz:

International Etiquette Let’s begin our tasks!

~ Physical Contact ~

Physical Contact

TaiwanWestern Countries GreetingWaving hands Nodding Say, “Ni –Hao” Ask, “Have you eaten?” Shaking hands Hugging Kissing NZ – ‘Hongi’ Signs of affectionPraising Patting your head/shoulder Embracing in arms (young) Holding hands (young) Hugging Kissing Hi-Five Saying, “I love you!”constantly Physical distanceKeeping an appropriate distance Keep a boundary between people. Eye contactsStudents are expected to show respect and gratitude to teachers at all time. Students are expected to look at the teachers as a way of showing respect.

Physical Contact – Activity/task Showing posters or pictures of people greeting/signs of affection/physical contact/eye contacts of different countries. Role-play : Divide teachers into 4 groups and each group will show various ways of manners in Taiwan or in the western countries.

~ Personal Relations ~

Personal Relations TaiwanWestern Countries Inside the work environment Polite and respectful between colleagues. Friendly, more lay- back and relax. Outside the work environment Still polite and keeping personal privacy Keeping privacy for personal and social life Family tieClose-bond Family/relatives live close by Loose-bond Children are expected to move out when they enter college

Personal Relations – Activity/Task Things that are in common Characteristics of the personal relations in the western countries Characteristics of the personal relations in Taiwan Making your own Van Diagram

~ Family Structure ~

Family Structure Who is in your family? order of importance, or in charge Have students write down the family members in their house. Then use the family member names to place them on the board.

Family Structure Now use the other paper and do the same for what you think is the typical American family. Order of importance Show the word extended on board to show what Americans call the family and what they call extended family. Discuss changes in American family due to divorce (50%+), single parent families, etc.

~ Family Background ~

Family Background In Taiwan, China and Taiwan Hakka is a place or tribe in China so that counts as China. Aboriginal counts as Taiwan. Growing trend of Taiwanese marrying Indonesian

Family Background Hand out maps. Have students place the letters for the appropriate people to show where they might have come from. W-white B-black L-latino M-Middle Eastern A-asian After they have filled out map, show ppt showing where they might have come from.

Where are your ancestors from?

W w w w w w w w B B L L L M M A A A A

~ Meal Manners ~

Meal Manners Get together with your group and make a list of at least 3 kinds of food that you like from Taiwan. Compare the foods you like

Meal Manners Now, make a list of at least 3 kinds of food if you were from the country in your name tag When finished, get the envelope and check the foods you listed with the ones printed on your page Food:

Meal Manners

Let’s watch a very short video about a Foreigner who visits an Asian family for a meal. Discuss all the differences between cultures according to what you see in the video. Youtube Video:

Meal Manners This is an interesting site where you can find one of kind facts about food around the world. Fun Facts:

~ Traveling ~

Traveling

Take a few minutes with your group to discuss how your “country” would handle things in each type of transportation What do you think would be the proper reaction? Why?

~ School Environment ~

School Environment Let’s watch a video about different schools and student in different parts of the world Youtube Video:

School Environment TAIWAN OTHER

School Environment Q & A Which of these things mentioned do you think would be most beneficial to apply in your school/all Taiwanese schools? Fun Facts:

Transition Let’s watch a short video to summarize everything we’ve said today. Any final thoughts? Youtube Video:

International Etiquette Time to wrap it up!

Post-Task

There is now a Final Assessment Simply asks about the different topics we discussed It is a great way to measure everyone’s performance and comprehension

Thank you for your time!