1. Outside of Our
Comfort Zones
Faculty Identity and Pedagogy in the Global
Classroom

2. Facilitators Christian Bracho, Ph.D.
Professorial Lecturer
School of Education - American University
Alexandra Wood, Ph.D.
Vice President of Academic Affairs
CIEE Study Abroad

3. Ice-Breaker
In small groups, you will rotate around the room to
review 3 different statements about teaching practices.
With your group, please discuss:
- What is the statement saying?
- Do you agree or disagree with the statement?
- What are the challenges that accompany this
approach?

4. Ice-Breaker
Carousel Activity
● Activates prior knowledge and sparks critical
thinking
● Can be used as an opener or mid-class activity
● Allows for chunking of text for close reading
● Engages multiple learning modalities -- group
discussion, movement around the room, etc.
● Can be modified to incorporate posters -- Gallery
Walk

5. Session
Overview
✓ Ice-Breaker
● Case Study - Prague Teaching Workshop
● Activity
● Debrief
● Resources

6. Prague Teaching Workshop
● Purpose & Planning
● Participants
● Agenda
● Reactions & Feedback
● Follow-Up

7. Purpose
● Use data from CIEE Student Program Evaluations to inform an innovative
and proactive strategy for supporting faculty
● Offer a professional development opportunity for faculty from CIEE
Prague and other CIEE locations in Northern Europe
● Encourage faculty to interrogate their identities as global educators and
to experiment with active learning

8. Planning ● Brainstormed with Center Director, Academic
Director, and Regional Director of Operations
● Refined agenda to focus on:
○ Experimenting with active learning
strategies
○ Working with Millennials & Generation Z
students
○ Modeling of teaching practices
● Finalized agenda and built module on Canvas
LMS, including pre-workshop assignments

10. CIEE Location # Faculty
Amsterdam 4
Berlin 2
Budapest 2
London 1
Paris 3
Prague 27
Rome 1
40
● Anthropology
● Architecture
● Art History
● Communications
● Creative Writing
● Economics
● Film Studies
● Gender & Sexuality Studies
● History
● Intercultural Communication
● Language
● Literature
● Political Science
● Psychology

20. Reactions & Feedback
● Daily “exit tickets”
● Comments made during workshop discussions and to facilitators
● Post-workshop online survey
● Debrief with CIEE academic staff and co-facilitators

22. For junior teachers like me, the
workshop helped me to realize
how much there is to learn about
effective teaching.
The workshop focused on concrete
tools through activities in which
participants engaged. There was a bit of
theory, but how this translated into
practice was the most important part.
“Wait time” is an important,
although simple, concept.
We need to address the reality that most
professors do not have any pedagogical
training. How to even start to train them;
how to expect excellence from them? This is
an issue of professors being open to this
training, but also their ability, even with
training, to implement these teaching
methods.
It would have been good to have
more time for the mock
teaching. Participants could
have been asked to bring in
materials or a lesson plan to
then revise.
The connections made both
within disciplines and cross
disciplines and also
internationally were great.

23. Post-Workshop
Follow-Up

24. Session
Overview
✓ Ice-Breaker
✓ Case Study - Prague Teaching Workshop
● Activity
● Debrief
● Resources

25. Think about the graphs you are seeing from the Pew
Report on Millennials in Adulthood.
Write for 2 minutes about how this data might be useful
to have in mind when designing instruction in college
settings abroad.
Pair up with a partner and share your thoughts. Split the
time so that each has time to speak and listen.
Share with the whole group.
Activity

26. Activity
THINK-WRITE-PAIR-SHARE
● Scaffolding of cognitive tasks
● Rehearsal of academic language and concepts
● Productive tasks (writing/ speaking)
● Receptive tasks (reading & observing/ listening)

27. Session
Overview
✓ Ice-Breaker
✓ Case Study - Prague Teaching Workshop
✓ Activity
● Debrief
● Resources

28. Debrief
● What are the key takeaways from the Prague
Teaching Workshop?
● What opportunities and challenges do active
learning strategies present in the study abroad
context?
● How does teaching international students and
diverse learners impact one’s identity as faculty?

29. Resources
● Active Learning Tips
● Action Verbs
● Aligning Assessments
with Objectives
● Educational Value of
Course-Level Learning
Objectives
● Effective Classroom
Discussions
● Generation Z Goes to
College
● Global Learning
Objectives
● In-Class Case Studies
● Millennials in
Adulthood
● Pedagogy, Practice, and
Teaching Innovation
● Rubrics
● The Teacher as Expert,
Formal Authority,
Personal Model,
Facilitator, and
Delegator

30. Contact Us Christian
bracho@american.edu
Ali
awood@ciee.org