02/18/2019 Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom

We as TESOL english teachers, must be aware that we will teach students not only from our own countries, but we will also have students from different countries of the world. At first glance it seems like a challengue to us. But we can focus it as a great experience to develop all of our teaching skills capable to teach people from different cultures, languages and so on. 

Regarding to this topic there is one word that appears in my mind: "tolerance". We must show tolerance and respect to ALL of our students, because we will have one classroom with many worlds inside it. Until now, I have just private lessons to an arabic and  a japanese kid, too. I remember  in order to catch their attention I used to bring LOTS of flashcards for vocabulary, and for grammar rules as well, I just tried to make very attractive classes for them and as I knew I was not able to explain grammar or vocabulary with my L1 (spanish), I really had to find the ways to reach to them. It was a real challenge for me but it definitely worth it because I had to overwork on my methodology teaching.

Tolerance between cross- cultural students and between teacher - students is the clue for a harmonius class

Now that I watched the video, I remember when I was studying english at an institute, I  had a partner from Japan, his name was Ye Cheao, and as it says in the video, He was very respectful to our teacher, now that I think about it, whenever our miss asked him a question; He never looked at her, He just looked to the wall or to his book. He was no expressive at all, and our teacher had to deal with this cross-cultural classroom, in this same class, there was also an Indian girl, so our teacher had a challenge squared, by that time I never imagine I will be an english teacher studying for a TESOL certification but I really admire this teacher, Her name was Mrs. Thorne, she really knew how to teach us english, she really loved us, She was a real TESOL teacher. 

Now that I`m aware about this topic I wish I could develop all my abilities for a cross-cultural students classroom. 

But how do you think will face a cross cultural students classroom? I would like to read all your ideas, how would you manage a classroom with this feature?

                                 Cross-cultural students classroom is a great oportunity to develop our                     abilities as english teachers