CULTURAL ICEBERG
What percentage of culture is INVISIBLE, below the waterline?
What is 90%?
Diversity means having _______ in a group.
What is DIFFERENCE?
What’s going on in this picture?
Barcelona is the capital of this region.
Catalonia
In this activity, one person describes a picture and the other draws it without seeing it.
What is the back-to-back drawing activity?
Name ONE thing that is ABOVE the waterline (visible culture)
What is food / clothing / language / music / holidays?
Is this EQUALITY or EQUITY: Everyone gets the SAME support.
What is EQUALITY?
The second question you ask
What do you see that makes you say that?
This famous street in Barcelona connects Plaça de Catalunya to the sea.
La Rambla
This creative activity uses old texts or newspapers where learners black out words to create a new poem.
What is caviardage?
Name ONE thing that is BELOW the waterline (invisible culture)
What is concept of time / communication style / values / beliefs / eye contact norms?
Is this EQUALITY or EQUITY: Everyone gets the support they NEED.
What is EQUITY?
This VTS question invites students to add more ideas after listening to others.
What more can we find?
This hill offers one of the best views of Barcelona and has a church called Sagrat Cor on top.
Tibidabo
This thinking activity asks learners to connect ideas using shapes to show relationships between concepts.
What is hexagonal thinking?
In which part of the iceberg do most cultural CONFLICTS happen - above or below the waterline?
What is BELOW the waterline (deep culture)?
What is the difference between MULTICULTURAL and INTERCULTURAL education? (Give one key difference)
What is: Multicultural = learning ABOUT cultures / Intercultural = building skills to work ACROSS cultures?
Name one of the dynamic endings
Role-play, background music, title etc.
This former bullring was transformed into a shopping centre near Plaça d’Espanya.
Las Arenas
This creativity test measures skills like flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
What is the Torrance Test of Creativity?
A student doesn't make eye contact. Is this SURFACE culture or DEEP culture, and why?
What is DEEP culture - because eye contact norms are invisible values about respect?
Making automatic judgments about people without being aware of it.
What is implicit bias?
In VTS, the teacher listens carefully and repeats students’ ideas without judging them.
What is paraphrasing?
This UNESCO World Heritage Site in Barcelona is a former hospital complex designed in Catalan Modernisme style and is known as the “Recinte Modernista.”
What is Hospital de Sant Pau?
This teaching method allows learners to act out real-life situations to practise empathy, communication, and problem-solving.
Role-Play