Why Choose The ACE Certificate in Teaching Culture?
35+ hours of coursework
Learn ideas, strategies and tools with which to successfully teach culture to your students.
Increase your marketability as a language instructor
Admission requirements
The ACE Certificate in Teaching Culture is designed for teachers of English or other languages as well as anyone teaching or conducting training in a culturally diverse environment. Participants may be currently practicing teachers or trainers or anyone with an interest in teaching culture.
Course Content
The ACE Certificate in Teaching Culture covers the following subject areas:
What is Culture?
Cultural Products
Cultural Behaviours
Cultural Values
Culture Knowledge
Culture Behaviour
Culture Attitude
Influences on Culture
Culture and Language
Culture and Communication
Culture and Identity
Interactions Across Cultures
Developing Cultural Intelligence
Critically Evaluating the Culture in Language Course Materials
Remedial, Targeted and Integrated Teaching
Assessments
Students will complete a Task Journal for each of the 15 course modules and submit them on an ongoing basis to their instructor for feedback and assessment. The instructor will assess the students’ understanding of each module based on the correctness and completeness of their responses in the Task Journals. Tasks provide students with the opportunity to put course concepts into practice through research, analysis, evaluation and lesson planning. Tasks include answering discussion and short answer questions, and completing short curriculum design tasks. The Task Journals comprise 100% of the final grade.
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