Microteaching Demonstration

Microteaching Demonstration Class Plan

1. Course Title & Class Description

Course Title: Intercultural Communication

Class: Week 3 — Cultural Diversity — Looking through Nonverbal Communication

2. Learner Description

The course “Intercultural Communication” is offered to college students who are in COMM major and have taken at least one pathway class such as “Communication and Diversity”, or other major students who have taken core course offered on “International Perspectives”. 

3. Learning Objectives

• Understand: Students will have learned and understood what cultural diversity is and how nonverbal communication is functioning in the culturally diversified environment. 
• Apply: Students will look into some cases of nonverbal communication to see how they demonstrate cultural diversity and apply these concepts to their real life experiences. 
• Analyze: Students will team up to use what they have learned to analyze some phenomena or situations happening in the current world or exchange their experience in the year of 2020

4. Learning Activities and Assessment

Learning activity	Length of time needed to complete	Materials needed (e.g., video lecture, worksheet)
Absorb: Lecture PPT + Lecture Video	15 mins	Google Slides + Video
Absorb: TedEd lesson (https://ed.ted.com/on/yMH36ID2)	5 mins	TedEd lesson
Do and Connect: Discussion withttps://youtu.be/6WLEylQTnxIhin each team about the questions given in TedEd Lesson (3-4 in each)	10 mins	Zoom or Google Doc
Do and Connect:  Book Creator (Code SQQ5XXD)Fish Bowl Discussion: Team Member No. 1 & 2 and Team’s final closing remarks (Member 3 and 4 if there is)*No more than 2-mins each	15 mins	Book Creator
Do and Connect: Peer Comments on other team’s Team Summary on the last page of   Book Creator (Code SQQ5XXD)	10 mins	Book Creator

Learning Assessment
Learning activity	Length of time needed to complete	Points (%)
Lecture video	15 mins	10%
TedEd lesson	5 mins	10%
Discussion within each team (3-4 in each)	10 mins	20%
Flipgrid Discussion: Video Posts Team Member No. 1&2 and Team’s Final closing remarks (Member 3 and 4 if there is)	15 mins	Each member 10%Total: 30%
Team reflective summary	10 mins	20%
Peer Comments	10 mins	10%
The Comments received most feedback or likes		Extra 10%
The team with the most active member-participation (75% above)		Extra 10%
Individual self reflection		Extra 10%

Team Member Sign-up: 

	Team Black	Team White	Team Red	Team Blue	Team Green	Team Yellow	Team Purple
People who love this color are …(Do you think this is also kind of stereotypes?)	Artistic and sensitive. Careful with details and not share easily with others	Organized and logical. Do not have a great deal of clutter in their lives	Live life to the fullest and tenacious and determined in their endeavors	Love harmony, reliable, sensitive and make efforts to think of others. Keep things clean and tidy	Affectionate. Loyal, frank. Aware of what others think of them and consider reputation very important	Enjoy learning and sharing your knowledge with others. Finding happiness easily and others compare you to sunshine	Artistic and Unique. Have a great respect for others but at times can be arrogant.
Members

TedEd Lesson: Nonverbal Communication and Cultural Diversity

Reflections:

• The Google Slides can be made with better design for visual attractiveness, for example, more colors, fewer words;
• In a Learning Management System such as Canvas, the lecture video is embedded with the tool offered by the system (e.g. Techknowmia), and more activities can be edited in;
• Throughout the 15 mins video, there should be some interactions with Q & A time, or quick quiz time, or at least some interval activity to break the monotony;
• TedEd lesson and Book Creator are used for team/Group work, but the process needs better strategies to ensure all participants’ balanced participation and involvement;
• Absorb-Do-Connect: “Connect” is weak if no effective facilitation is offered to ensure team discussion and project, so teacher’s presence is important.