Yes, I agree!!!!

Carol

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Director/Language and Culture Specialist 
Battle Creek Language and Culture Center 
7 Heritage Oak Lane #4 
Battle Creek, Mi 49015 
269-979-8432 
http://www.bclanguageculture.com 
carolkubota at comcast.net

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From: George Palamattam <gpalamattam at yahoo.com> 
Dear Colleagues,

Our discussion on citizenship covered a variety of topics such as culture, language learning, unlearning, assimilation, salad bowl, melting pot, etc.  In addition to ideas many of you presented, I would recommend traveling to a far away land and discovering more about its culture, customs and people as an in-service/professional development for us ESL teachers.  There are many good programs that offer such journeys with an emphasis on cultural immersion, people connection, international exchange…. Experience shows, when we discover a land, people, culture, value system and lifestyle that is different from our own, we discover more about us, our land, culture, value system, lifestyle etc.  Becoming aware of our own culture, value system, priorities, etc and those of our students is one way to prepare ourselves for effective classroom interaction.
 
Dr. George Palamattam
The Center for Discovery Learning
Chicago
http://www.discoveryjourney.org
630 359 3393
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