Given the prominent role of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in preparing pre-service teachers to be culturally relevant educators, [the authors] developed a series of online learning modules for GTAs in a College of Education to support their intercultural competency development. [The authors] developed the Introduction to Cultural Competency in Education online learning modules with two primary frameworks: (a) the Culture Cycle (Hamedani & Markus, 2019), which conceptualizes culture by ideas, institutions, interactions, and individuals; and (b) the Intercultural Development Continuum (Hammer, 2012), which supports individuals to reflect on their intercultural competencies and identify areas of growth, progressing from denial, polarization, minimization, acceptance, to adaptation.

Temitope F. Adeoye, Virginia T Cabrera, Daniela Castellanos-Reyes, Michael R Lolkus, Marquetta I Strait (2022). Supporting Graduate Teaching Assistants' Intercultural Competencies | Seed Grant 2021. (Version 2.0). https://hubicl.org/publications/167/2