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Notes from the Teams Meeting: How can you find your marigold / be a marigold to other teachers?

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Notes from the Teams Meeting: How can you find your marigold / be a marigold to other teachers?

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- Always be supportive and willing to listen, even if you cannot help.
- Share resources
- words of affirmation
- be open to dialogue
- buy a cup of coffee for a friend
- sharing and borrowing and listening
- open-minded
- make connections with other teachers and share ideas and support each other
- never hesitate to ask for help and be willing to help also. be open to feedback and be positive when giving feedback
- collaboration, collegiality, team cheer leader, active listener
- listen to others and sharing coffee
- leave encouraging notes in mailboxes or on a co teachers desk

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I plan to create cultural understandings and connections through open mindedness and sharing.

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I will make the best of our new normal

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How can you create cultural understanding/connections: be open-minded and willing to listen

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I think teaching in Kuwait will be like my previous teaching experience in terms of the interest that students will have in their teacher. Students like to know more about their teachers.

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Daniel Smit

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Teaching in Kuwait will broaden my horizons and allow me to view the world from a different perspective

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Though I believe it will be very different, I am excited to learn and grow in a new culture.

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Patrick
Take time to listen to kids at first. With the gulf culture it is all about relationships.

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Teaching is Kuwait will be different than my previous teaching experience because the classrooms are not co-ed.

I will create a safe space in the classroom to allow students to share their ideas. I will also make the effort to learn from my students about their culture along with sharing  my background with them.

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My time in Kuwait will be hard for me, because I will not be teaching with my best friend and I will teach lower primary and not KG1. To understand the students and parents you must be open minded.

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1. Teaching in Kuwait will be similar due to the content I will be covering. And I will be working with growing learners!

2. Teaching in Kuwait will be different due to me being new many of my scholars knew me because I was at my school previous school for a long time and had many of their siblings. there is also going to be language and cultural barriers.

3. I will create understanding and connections by creating activities that will help me better get to know my scholars and what things they find enjoyment in and what they value.

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1- I’m used to teaching students with English as their second language.
2- This will be my first year teaching abroad and in an international school. Also unlike last year, we are starting online so it should be interesting to find new ways to get to know the students!
3- Be open minded and take the time to listen to the students.

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1. Teaching in Kuwait will be different to what I have previously experienced
2. Extending grace and patience to not only my students but my colleagues also

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Teaching in Kuwait will be different than my previous teaching experience because I will be teaching all boys and I will be teaching middle school for the first time. My previous experience is high school. I will also have to get use to the cultural differences.

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I think it will be similar as in kids are kids. They want to be heard or understand. They want to know you care.
I think it will be different because I will be far more intentional in my teaching
I'd like to share my culture with the students.

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I have taught in the UAE before so there will be some similarities to teaching in Kuwait.
I think the parents and students will be differrent- with different cultures and circumstances.
Being open-minded and flexible, willing to learn and compromise with different circumstances.

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I will bring my EAL Arabic resources with me

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1 - Engaging with students.
2 - Having more grace with regards to the language barrier.
3 - By sharing stories.

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Ashley Burns: Teaching in Kuwait will be different from previous teaching experiences because of all the new technology aspects to process before school starts.

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1 - I will have fun with my students and grow as an educator!
2 - My instruction will focus upon ELL teaching strategies more.
3 - Asking questions, being open-minded, sharing ideas/experiences in the classroom to create a community.