Awarded: Intercultural Fluency Digital Badges

BTE offers a digital badge in Intercultural Fluency, a set of skills students need to interact with people from other cultures or in environments with cultures different than their own. The badge includes four “sub-competencies” each taught with instruction and a practical activity. These sub-competencies and activities include:

•  Introduction: WHAT IS CULTURE
  •   Definitions of Culture
•  Sub-Competency 1: SHOW CURIOSITY
  •  Cultural Iceberg | Journals | Parking Lot | Cultural Experiences
•  Sub-Competency 2: IDENTIFY AND CHALLENGE ONE’S OWN CULTURAL BIAS
  •  Intercultural Index | Axioms of Culture | Circles of Self
•  Sub-Competency 3: INCORPORATE DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES
  •  Dark Room Exercise | The 4 Work Types | Appreciating Our Diverse Perspectives
•  Sub-Competency 4: DEMONSTRATE SELF AWARENESS
  •  Self-Awareness Questions | Personal Coat of Arms

To learn more about these activities or host them yourself, check out Digital Badges in our Student Activity Section.

As of October 9, 2018, the following BTE students have earned a Digital Badge in Intercultural Fluency:

• Anthony Camacho (BTE-Santa Ana)
• Leslie Angelica Campos Buendia (BTE-Mexico City)
• Yeina Kizziz Danara Castro Arriaga (BTE-Yumbo)
• Mark Coll (BTE-Phoenixville)
• Elizabeth Cortez Garcia (BTE-Santa Ana)
• Basimah Curry (BTE-Norristown Area)
• Liel Desa (BTE-Yokneam)
• Camryn Dobey (BTE-Phoenixville)
• Santiago Escobar Jojoa (BTE-Yumbo)
• Nancy Esquivel Simbron (BTE-Mexico City)
• Olivia Garbett (BTE-Leeds)
• William Green (BTE-Trenton)
• Lihi Levy (BTE-Yokneam)
• Ivy Machaka (BTE-Leeds)
• Rubens Magri (BTE-High Wycombe)
• Jaisuan Martinez (BTE-Bound Brook)
• Maria Rana (BTE-High Wycombe)
• Emily Rodriguez (BTE-Trenton)
• Aliyah Saleem (BTE-Bound Brook)
• Jolisa Tamalii Pati (BTE-Auckland)
• Emilitza Trujillo (BTE-Norristown Area)
• Josephine Vili (BTE-Auckland)