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As the world becomes increasingly smaller, the Intercultural Outreach program is dedicated to helping you fulfill your role as a facilitator of global understanding. Intercultural Outreach students will come into your classroom to give a free multimedia culture presentation to your students. Last year students delivered over 1,200 presentations to local elementary and high schools, Cub Scout packs, and retirement homes across the Wasatch Front. Your students will experience cultural activities without leaving the classroom.
Presentations are designed for grades K–12. Outreach presenters will tailor their presentations to accommodate most specific requests from teachers and facilitators.You may submit specific requests when scheduling the presentations.
One of the points always stressed by BYU students is that "even though we are all different in some ways, we are very much alike in so many ways." Through this program my students learn tolerance and that we are truly "one people" in this world.
"BYU students are professional, yet they speak at the students' level. They are dependable and highly motivated. I highly recommend BYU's International Outreach program. It's the best exposure most of my students will ever have about life outside their own little world." —Carol Stevens, 6th Grade Teacher, Valley Crest Elementary.
"BYU's Intercultural Outreach class trains BYU students in correct and positive teaching techniques and helps them know how to adjust their teaching style to different age groups. It also trains them to be positive in their explanation of the countries and cultures they are representing. This class is very committed to helping the international students, and students with experiences in foreign countries, become good ambassadors of those countries and in developing interconnections with the U.S. students they teach." —Ruth King, 5th/6th Grade teacher, Cedar Ridge Elementary.
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Scheduling Presentations
Presentations are available during BYU's academic fall and winter semesters. At the beginning of each semester, a letter is mailed to each school listing the presenters' names, cultures represented, and availablity (information will not be available until late September). Contact us early to assure that your culture choice is available.
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Elementary students learn about Korea |
High School students learn about China |
Fact Sheets
These handouts contain important facts on each country. They are designed by our student presentersto be used during presentations. Pictures, common words and phrases, and other helpful teaching tips are included on the fact sheet. View a complete list of available fact sheets or view these fact sheet examples:
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To help support your teaching, the Intercultural Outreach office provides a library of documentation collected throughout the years. Save research time and money by checking out our Library Resources.
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All content copyright 2007 David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.
Apart
from the wide spectrum of books and videos in areas of politics, political
theory, diplomacy, and foreign policy, the Intercultural Outreach
Resource Library, situated in 273 HRCB, is a treasure for those interested
in learning about other countries and cultures. All the materials
are divided into several categories, namely: general, governmental,
and cultural info; maps, pictures, and pamphlets of cities and regions;
and finally, teaching units consisting of slides and other class presentation
materials. Major informational materials have been acquired from embassies
or directly from the country of origin by our previous and current
students and faculty in order to ensure that all our materials are
useful, reliable, and current. 
President Larry M. Gibson, of the Highland Utah West Stake,
reported, “The contribution of the Intercultural Outreach program
in allowing our staff to borrow the flags of many nations, in a display
of worldwide interest in family history, and the collection of descendants
of emigrants from throughout the world in this land of Zion, was immensely
appreciated. The simple presence of the flags pointedly brought the
focus of the fair to the diversity of our heritage.” 
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