In this activity, participants will be encouraged to identify the challenges faced by students from various backgrounds in an academic setting and develop strategies to promote inclusion.

In this activity, participants will be challenged to identify express the role culture(s) play(s) in shaping their identity.

In this activity, participants will be introduced to the four contact conditions and discuss how the conditions can reduce prejudice and lead to better relations.

This activity challenges participants to consider how the definition of ethics shifts for individuals within each stage of the IDC.

This activity encourages participants to consider ways they and others "find their feet" in new cultural contexts.

This activity encourages participants to reflect on the cultural value dimension of power distance, while considering their own cultural perspectives of authority.

This form helps you center equity in all phases of the institutional assessment process.

This form helps you think through how to plan for success through all phases of an assessment project.

This is the presentation entitled, "An experiential and interactive lesson plan for appreciating difference" from the TESOL 2023 conference.

This activity teaches participants to identify and describe language and identity conflicts that arise in the play Hong Kong, Canada by Tara Goldstein, and invites them to explore feelings of racism, xenophobia, and marginalization and describe the complexities of language discrimination.

This activity invites participants to develop empathy for people from varied backgrounds and experiences, demonstrate intentional listening, and build relationships through sharing experiences.

This activity demonstrates to participants that people bring different talents, perspectives, and backgrounds to groups and helps them understand the benefits of forming diverse groups. 

This activity invites participants to consider how they view people based on appearance and discuss two-way relationships. 

This collection includes activities and simulations geared toward intercultural learning in the world language classroom.

This  collection  includes assessments, activities, and readings pertaining to intercultural learning. 

This collection includes activities that help learners grow in empathy.

This collection includes activity ideas for intercultural learning in the world language classroom.

This collection includes recommended inventories, debriefing tools, and surveys for assessing intercultural learning.

This collection includes resources for language teachers pertaining to intercultural learning benchmarks, assessments, activities, and more within the language classroom.

This simulation encourages participants to examine "the range of possible perspectives that can be brought to bear on [the] complicated work of international development and humanitarian aid."

Look at debrief videos for diverse perspectives on the content of the videos.

While conducting a focus group can appear very similar to sitting around and chatting about something, there are guidelines that make it more effective, valid and reliable as research.  The attached methods guide from the University of Reading (United Kingdom) is a good short introduction and suggests further readings. CILMAR's assessment expert is also very fond of the Focus Group Interviewing website  (and books!) of Drs. Richard A. Krueger & Mary Anne Casey, who have over 40 years of experience & with whom she considers herself extremely fortunate to have studied.

This focus group protocol (question set) was developed to probe the learning outcomes of engineering students who have completed junior year abroad programs; it asks open-ended questions about language skills, intercultural skills, engineering skills and professional skills. Questions can be found in the appendix of the article, between the conclusion and the references. The article exists behind a scholarly paywall, so log-in via a scholarly library account if possible.

Otherwise, a similar focus group protocol, somewhat less engineering-focused but open-source, may be found on the website of the University of Minnesota's Learning Abroad Center.