She holds a bi-lingual (Spanish) cross cultural teaching credential and has over 35 years of teaching experience in both public and private schools.
The current interest of universities in developed countries to incept satellite institutions in developing countries has added cross-cultural management of education to the issues pertaining to cross-cultural teaching and learning (Eldridge and Cranston 2009).
Although Peters has found cross-curricular teaching a challenge at times, the benefits far outweigh the difficulties.
It promised innovative cross-disciplinary teaching with independence and self-motivation for students until, in May 1968, the future took on a life of its own.
It became apparent during the schools workshops that there was no cross-curricular teaching resource at Key Stage 4 in Wales that covered climate change, and in particular adaptation to climate change.
The current curriculum, including its 11 separate subjects, will be replaced with six "areas of learning", freeing teachers to pick and choose lesson content and do more cross-curriculum teaching, making links between science, maths and history.
The spirit of collaboration, sharing, acknowledgment and mutual respect is a guiding principle in cross-cultural teaching.
The objectives were to develop and assess an elective course designed to increase Japanese students' understanding of pharmacoeconomics, and to discuss some challenges and benefits of cross-cultural teaching.
Further, approaches to "interdisciplinary" or cross-subject teaching (Petersen 2000; Gudjons and Traub 2012) emphasize that a student understands his or her reality not contained within the bounds of one subject or another but, instead, across a set of applicable, interdisciplinary constructs (Lenzen 1996; Jonen and Jung 2007).
The effort sought to assess the validity of a near-peer, bidirectional, cross-cultural teaching format as both a global health experience for medical students and as an effective component of improving medical education and emergency response infrastructure in developing countries such as Haiti.
