Where and how have your experiences demonstrated this competence?
Module 13: Share Your Cultural Competencies (10 pts)
This reflective exercise is designed share your cultural experiences with your friends and help you identify potential competency gaps that you might want to address in the future.
Part I:
Select one of the four competencies identified at this University of Victoria website
https://www.uvic.ca/coopandcareer/career/build-skills/intercultural/index.php
(Links to an external site.) and assess your current level competency in that area. Download and print out the assessment worksheet to record your thoughts. Refer to the competency descriptors found at the University of Victoria site.
Click here to download and access the Competency Assessment Worksheet
According to the University of Victoria, your competencies may fall at any place along the following continuum:
1. Beginning: You start to find opportunities to develop skills related to your competencies.
2. Developing: You practice your competencies in the workplace, classroom and in daily life, and often think about how to develop your skills.
3. Accomplished: You reach your competency goals and are always thinking about opportunities to use your skills.
4. Exemplary: You’re a master—you completely understand your competencies and are constantly using them in all areas of your life.
Part II:
Once you have completed the self-assessment, go to the discussion forum and post to the thread of the competency that you selected in Part I. Create a post in which you reflect on your own experiences and answer the following questions:
Where and how have your experiences demonstrated this competence?
Have you identified any competency gaps? If so, what would be a way for you to close the gap?
After you completed your own post, check out what your peers wrote and share your suggestions for building cultural competence. Keep in mind that the goal of this activity is to build on each others’ experiences and share potential ways to expand our understanding of the world.
Select Reply to post your original response by Wednesday (or noted otherwise in the weekly course module). Then return later in the session to respond to the post of at least one other classmate by clicking on the Reply button at the top of the page. Please post your response(s) by the end of the course week on Sunday. To follow all the posts in a particular thread, select Subscribe. Your instructor will evaluate your participation according to the course rubric.
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