Multicultural competence

Today was productive. Dr. Baumbach finished up a draft rubric to evaluate my portfolio. Not surprisingly, it's wrapped around the program standards - one of which is multicultural competence. How do I document multicultural competence? That's been on my mind for over a day now. Thinking about this bothers me because it leads me to thinking of people, friends, and classmates according to a skin color or label. I don't like doing that to a friend.

Ideas for this piece of my portfolio include pointing out specific teaching strategies that are helpful to the non-native English speaker, use of technology with multiple cues (audio & video), and the practice of providing outlines or notes ahead of class for the teaching section of the portfolio. It strikes me that those are simply good teaching. Dr. Baumbach reminded me that I might be able to get a little demographic data from the SEIR*TEC courses. They collect data with distinctions such as rural, urban, and Title 1. Student leadership activities have me working with a lot of international students. I suppose I'll include that. I've also worked on class projects with people from other places and I've done some international travel. Perhaps I need to plan an international excursion for later this semester. I've been wanting to go to Greece and that has nothing to do with the Olympics!