I have prepared a PowerPoint presentation for presenting a cascading session. Recently, I have completed the US Embassy-funded course through the Canvas network.

1. Welcome to the
Cascading Session .

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I am Md. Mainuddin
Assistant Teacher (Social Science)
Puichari Islamia kamil Madrasah,
Banskhali, Chittagong.
I am also a Life member of BELTA.

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Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into the
Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting.
Facilitated by: World Learning
Nominated by: GASD

4. After completing the eight-week course, I am now able to:
 Define intercultural competence
 Define critical thinking
 Develop an increased understanding of experiential learning and its elements:
observation, inquiry, multiple perspective analysis, and self-reflection
 Further develop my ability to learn and teach intercultural competence
 Further develop my ability to learn and teach critical thinking
 Further develop my ability to learn and teach the skills of active listening and
empathy
 Develop my own beliefs about the teaching of culture in our context
 Create lesson plans which integrate cultural learning and critical thinking
 Reflect on and critically analyze our lessons.
Learning Objectives and Learner Outcomes

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Expectations:
This course aimed to improve our intercultural
competence and critical thinking skills. It also aimed
to improve our ability to teach these to our students.
To do this, the course used the model of experiential
learning. In experiential learning, learning is based
on real life experiences.

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Module-01: Orientation and Culture
How to interact positively and productively with
classmates.
Explaining Critical thinking and how it is helpful
for studying cultural and intercultural encounters.
Assess writing based on the ‘Depth of reflection’
rubric. OPEN importants-2021d. o. r.pdf

7. OPEN, module
2module 2 raising
sultural awareness in
the language
class.PNG
OPEN, module
2moving through
cultures.PNG
OPEN
importants-
2021C.T..pdf
OPEN, module 2What
Aspects of roles did
you choose ,
Assignment-02.pdf
cascading
session
documentstechni
quesw of Active
listening.pdf
Definition
Of Critical
Thinking.
Raising
Cultural
Awareness
Identity
Wheel
Active
Listening
Moving
Through
Culture
Module-02: Critical Thinking

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Module-03: Multiple Perspectives
OPEN module-
03Assignment for
Description.docx

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Module-04: Intercultural Communication
Why do people from different cultures sometimes have misunderstandings or conflicts? Because they
can interpret the same thing differently. Some behaviors that are polite in one culture can seem rude
in another culture. Clothing that is very nice in one cultural context can be entirely inappropriate in
another.
This is why we spent some time in Module 3 looking at the difference
between observation and interpretation. People from any two cultures should be able to make the
same observations, but their interpretations can be very different. This is because they attach
different cultural meanings to what they observe.
 Top topics:
 Intercultural Encounters
 Cultural Bumps
 Critical Thinking Rubrics Forum
 Investigate my students
 Same practice, Different Context, Different outcomes
 Dialogue as a means of Learning.
OPEN Module-
04Wheels of
Identity.pdf

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Module-05: Applying It Locally.
 Top Contents:
 Cultural ‘Bumps’ part-03
 Critical Thinking Rubrics-part-02
 Lesson ideas from the English Teaching Forum
 What I Learned about My Students
 Cascading New Knowledge: Applying It Locally
https://am
ericaneng
lish.state.
gov/forum

11. Discussion
Forum
Lesson Planning
Preparation
Submitting
Lesson Plan
Study
A lot of
Sample Lesson
plan
Guidelines on
Organizing
Professional
Development
events
Module-06: Lesson Planning for Your Context (Part I).
Module-06Lesson
Plan Template for
module-06 by Md.
Mainuddin,
Bangladesh.pdf
Module-06Topic_
Module 6_ What I
Learned about My
Students, Part II -
Group 2.pdf

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Module-07: Lesson Planning for Your Context (Part ii)
 In this module, I had to incorporate feedback to make
reasoned Changes to my prepared lesson plan.
 I had to describe how my teaching will be impacted
from the course.
OPEN module-
07Reflection
Journal for
module 7.docx

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Module-08: Teaching.
cascading session
documentsmodule 8
over view.PNG

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Beautiful Design and Perfect Planning.
Module over view Topic guide line
and Instructions
Rubrics for submitting
Assignments and tasks.
Teaching through Quizes
Group Discussion
Forum Discussion
Module Wrap up
cascading session
documentsmodule over
view page00.pdf
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session
documentstopic
intro and
instructions.pdf
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documentsRubrics for
guiding us submitting
assignments and group
discussions.pdf
Module Glossary
Teacher Support
cascading session
documentsteching through
quizes.pdf
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quizes.pdf
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quizes.pdf
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documentsgroup
discussion.pdf

15. Honorable Teacher
Ukrain
Thanks and Best Wishes to
Zhenya Polosatova

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#USDepartmentofState
#GASD(Global Aid for Sustainable
Development)
My cordial thanks & gratitude to the

17. Thanks!
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to all of you for your
patience and support.