Global Awareness Lesson

The project that I selected is from http://cc.britishcouncil.org/; the lesson is from the education pack and the title is 100 words. The suggested curriculum link is English; I selected this activity because I believe that I can adjust it for my students and curriculum. My assignment focuses on learning terminology and radiographic procedure commands from different countries. The students will work in pairs and create a dictionary of basic directions and commands used when performing radiographic procedures. Next, they will create a video of the commands they selected and share their video with a classroom from another country that they joined on the website. They must select different countries to expose the class to a variety of languages; suggestions include countries in South America, Eastern Europe and Asia. They will watch the videos from the website classroom to learn words and phrases pertinent to health care in languages other than English. They will present their findings to the class during the final week of the semester. This lesson encourages global awareness because it allows the students the freedom to select their own classroom and explore the differences in words and phrases used when performing radiographic procedures. I hope to increase student understanding of diverse cultures and appropriate communication through self-awareness and interaction with classrooms from other countries. I also want to encourage implementation of appropriate instructions when performing radiographic procedures on a diverse patient population. This assignment is for the entire semester, during the first week the students will complete a survey on cultural awareness that I created and will present their findings to the class the final week of the semester. This assignment will have a value of one test grade.