VOC2: Self-assessment on how the planning and teaching activities were carried out in my theme group

My group theme: Global and Multicultural Activities (http://ivetvoc2.blogspot.fi/)

How suitable were the selected methods? How did the other groups react to our learning/teaching activities? 

In overall, our team teaching/learning activities were quite well organized using many teaching/learning methods for different styles of learning intelligences, and motivating them to share and learn from others. We have noticed that learning process by the students were not well progressed before the deadline, so we have sent an email reminder for the deadline. More than half of the students returned their learning outcomes after the deadline. At this point of writing on 11^th March, we have received responses from all 12 students, 100 % participation. There was no support request from anybody, although we have provided our group members email address for tutoring, if needed.

 Here are the activities, I have planned and responsible for, and I would like to explain how the activities were performed by other groups.

·              Art Appreciation Exercise using Paul Gauguin’s painting

100% participation. Outcomes show that the students took the activity seriously and provided own view point of the painting. Due to the activities happened in the Padlet board, their opinions were shared together among students. In this way students could recognize different view point of others. That was the purpose of the activity, how we as a diversity of cultural group, how much of differences are here in the art appreciation.

 More details can be seen from the Padlet address: http://padlet.com/wall/6me7y4dwor

•                  2.2 Watch the video: Raising Intercultural awareness

Instructions for the task was not clear for some of the students, but they have managed well in many different ways. Many of students wrote their comments to other student’s interview post. It was a great results of this task, they were engaging in other student’s’ blog by commenting. For me it was the first case of interaction in blogs between students, since we have used blog as for individual portfolio.

More details can be found from the learning environment:  http://www.ivetvoc2.blogspot.fi/p/activity-2.html

•                  2.3 Fill in the Cultural Competence Self-assessment

100% response rate.

All the students have evaluated own cultural competence using the survey tool. Overall results shows that in our iVET groups have very high score of multicultural competence for awareness and knowledge perspective. Overall score of the multicultural skills is below than other previous two categories. Based on the students writing on own strengths and weaknesses, the survey helped own analysis on multicultural competence.

Survey: http://mikyong.polldaddy.com/s/cultural-competence-self-assessment.

Results (password: oamk): http://polldaddy.com/share/s34eebc1a0a53bfd10d71fbcb2501caea1819326665