This document discusses lessons from intercultural communication that are relevant for university classrooms. Intercultural communication refers to verbal and non-verbal communication between people from different cultures. The document provides tips for instructors on communicating effectively with international students, such as being careful with wording, repeating ideas, and making expectations clear. It also discusses challenges with group work and leadership roles due to cultural differences, and suggests strategies like assigning roles and turn-taking procedures to mitigate issues. While instructors can't change students' cultural views, following these tips can help address common communication problems in mixed-classroom settings.
This presentation highlights the lack of diversity within the psychology educational pipeline and workforce. Understanding the hindering experiences that URM (underrepresented minorities) face throughout their educational and professional careers permits the creation and implementation of strategies to mitigate such barriers and negative experiences to help increase diversity. This presentation offers insight on URM participation trends in the field; barriers faced by URM; strategies to support URM and increase their recruitment; potential avenues to create more psychology opportunities.
Speaking your Language was a project was a tri-institutional partnership between University of Toronto, OCAD University, and Ryerson University. We had a phenomenal working group of international educators, counsellors, and student life colleagues, and were joined by an even more phenomenal group of student volunteers. The intention of the collaboration between the schools was to combine our student populations as well as access to resources as our campuses are quite close.
Gender Differences in New Residents' Preparation to teachElisabethEBennett
This study used a mixed methods approach to analyze both quanitative and qualitaitve data from a new resident survey administered at the beginning of two academic years. Gender differences were found in both types of data, across all post graduate years.
This presentation highlights the lack of diversity within the psychology educational pipeline and workforce. Understanding the hindering experiences that URM (underrepresented minorities) face throughout their educational and professional careers permits the creation and implementation of strategies to mitigate such barriers and negative experiences to help increase diversity. This presentation offers insight on URM participation trends in the field; barriers faced by URM; strategies to support URM and increase their recruitment; potential avenues to create more psychology opportunities.
Speaking your Language was a project was a tri-institutional partnership between University of Toronto, OCAD University, and Ryerson University. We had a phenomenal working group of international educators, counsellors, and student life colleagues, and were joined by an even more phenomenal group of student volunteers. The intention of the collaboration between the schools was to combine our student populations as well as access to resources as our campuses are quite close.
Gender Differences in New Residents' Preparation to teachElisabethEBennett
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Slides from a presentation given at the excellent American Association of Geographers 2016 conference with a focus on social disability issues and mapping applications. Data was sourced from the American Community Survey.
As a part of my College Student Development class we were to pick a topic and come up with a theory guided program or policy. I decided to challenge myself with a topic I did not know much about: Education Abroad.
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Nilanjana Dasgupta, Director of Faculty Equity and Inclusion, shared the results from the faculty survey assessing department culture and its impact on faculty satisfaction.
Tips on teaching international students who come to study at university in the UK. Given at QMUL in 2015 as part of a taught postgraduate course in higher education.
Unpacking Power Hierarchies in Students as Partners PracticesBCcampus
Slides from a session with Roselynn Verwoord, Conan Veitch, Yahlnaaw, and Heather Smith from the Symposium 2018 held on October 24, 2018 in Vancouver, B.C.
Slides from a presentation given at the excellent American Association of Geographers 2016 conference with a focus on social disability issues and mapping applications. Data was sourced from the American Community Survey.
As a part of my College Student Development class we were to pick a topic and come up with a theory guided program or policy. I decided to challenge myself with a topic I did not know much about: Education Abroad.
During my College Student Development course we were assigned to learn about a particular theory of our choosing to then teach the class. I chose to learn about Baxter Magolda's Epistemology Reflection.
Nilanjana Dasgupta, Director of Faculty Equity and Inclusion, shared the results from the faculty survey assessing department culture and its impact on faculty satisfaction.
Tips on teaching international students who come to study at university in the UK. Given at QMUL in 2015 as part of a taught postgraduate course in higher education.
Unpacking Power Hierarchies in Students as Partners PracticesBCcampus
Slides from a session with Roselynn Verwoord, Conan Veitch, Yahlnaaw, and Heather Smith from the Symposium 2018 held on October 24, 2018 in Vancouver, B.C.
A Comprehensive Retention Strategy for International Students
NAFSA Region I Conference - Tacoma, WA - November 7, 2012
Outline
-Complicate Your Perspective
-Activity: Maps of the World
-Domestic Student Retention Theory
-Barriers for International Students
-Best Practices
-Crossing the Bridges
-Discussion
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A group of Northeastern University doctoral students come together to present on the topic: Culturally Competent Leaders: Exploring Cultural Intelligence (CI) in Higher Education. Course: EDU 7281 Research Process (R2)
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
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PRESENTERS:
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Patricia Steiner, Tonia Teresh
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The suggested assignment aimed to help students understand the link between these two disciplines. Case studies from the mechanical and civil engineering industry were selected to develop the pilot assignments. The mathematical rules applied in this assignment were introduced in brief in the assignment information sheet to give students guidelines to carry out further online research. The preliminary statistical results show improvement in students’ multi-disciplinary knowledge in the different units and enhancement in their industrial experience.
Wondering where you belong on the spectrum between a technophobe and technophile? Curious as to how this affects your teaching? More tech-savvy generations of learners are entering our classrooms bringing not only their rich cultural contexts, but also new preferences of learning and engaging both with each other, and their educators. However, incorporating ed-tech strategies effectively into teaching can seem daunting to many educators.
Our experience shows that the development of digital capabilities in educators is highly dependent upon empowering, developing and enhancing the educators’ mindset. This presentation presents theoretical considerations for developing an educator’s digital capabilities and reviews examples of ed-tech professional development models to support and empower educators to successfully implement technology-enhanced teaching practices.
Do you ever feel out of your depth or overwhelmed with trying to manage students who come to you emotionally distressed? Does this affect your own stress levels?
Whether you are a teacher or support staff, it is essential for your own health and well-being and the well-being of your students that you feel resourced with strategies to manage these situations effectively.
In this presentation, Jane Daisley-Snow will help you recognize the signs of mental health issues; respond appropriately with ‘mental health first aid’; and refer students on to receive the professional support they need.
ANZAC perspectives: Strategies, leading indicators and busting international ...LearningandTeaching
This webinar is a unique collaboration between agencies that promote New Zealand and Australian international education – Education New Zealand and Austrade. Kadi Taylor also throws into the mix the perspective of an education provider that straddles both sides of the Tasman, Navitas.
The presenters bring together disparate data sets from both destinations to illuminate the lead indicator data trends, compare these trends and provide qualitative context to how these played out in these major international education destinations.
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Singing together is powerful. It helps us express our emotions, teaches us to harmonise our differences, and makes us feel part of a community. It also provides an opportunity for language learners to improve pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary and confidence in speaking. For international students living in Australia, a choir can become a family, and a home away from home. It’s a safe place to make friends, improve English, and explore a range of feelings.
In 2018, the first annual Raise Your Voice choir festival for international students was held in Brisbane. In these slides, Vicki Bos and Donna Cook share some of the goals, benefits and outcomes of the 2018 festival, and let you know all about the upcoming 2019 festival. Tune in to the recording if you’re interested in singing with your students, setting up a choir at your language school, or getting involved in the 2019 festival (and beyond).
Providing effective feedback for students can be a time-consuming and often frustrating experience for both student and teacher. In an attempt to identify a method for providing feedback that is both engaging for students and time-efficient for staff, a study comparing audio with written feedback was carried out at Curtin College.
Analysis of students' results indicates that while different types of feedback did not result in any significant difference in grades, the evidence from the study's survey indicates an overwhelmingly positive response by most staff and students to audio feedback.
In these slides, Gemma Clarke shares the results of her study and highlights some of the advantages and disadvantages of using audio feedback with a particular focus on Audacity.
Confidence is key: a successful approach to teaching statisticsLearningandTeaching
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In these slides, Saad Odeh presents an effective teaching technique in statistics developed by SIBT teachers. Rather than enabling the cohort by providing them with extra help to progress in statistics, the idea was to improve their confidence when they do the major assessment, 'the final exam'.
Co-designing a global pd program for 120 Navitas collegesLearningandTeaching
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In these slides, Pauline Farrell and Christina Del Medico outline the co-design process of TEN.
Assessment can have a profound influence on student learning. Some students only seek to engage with that which is to be assessed. In other cases, assessment approaches can inhibit learning by assessing inappropriate things. Authentic assessments provide the means for teachers to influence learning in all the right ways and provide learning experiences that connect students with practical applications of the course materials. These type of assessments also involve active learning where students are motivated to make decisions and judgments and to learn by doing.
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In these slides, Anselm will unravel the mysteries of active learning. Bloom’s Taxonomy and ‘flipped learning’ are presented as theoretical lenses through which active learning may be better understood. Specifically, he argues that active learning consists of two components: ‘active’ and ‘learning’. In designing for engaging and meaningful student learning experiences, there should be an equal emphasis placed on both elements.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2. What is intercultural communication?
Verbal and non-verbal communication
between people from different cultures.
3. Questions for educators
1. What proportion of your classes are international students?
1. What kinds of challenges have you encountered while working with
international students and/or in mixed-classroom settings?
4. Communicating with international students
➢ Be careful with your wording.
➢ Anticipate misunderstandings.
➢ Repeat ideas and instructions.
➢ Use a multi-modal approach.
6. Communicating with international students
➢ Encourage students to use your office hours
➢ Build face-to-face relationships
➢ Let students know it’s OK to make mistakes
7. Group work and class discussions
➢ Make turn taking part of your instructions
➢ Appoint roles to group participants
➢ For peer feedback sessions, model polite feedback and encourage the use of
the pronoun “I”
8. Leadership roles
➢ Studies report that, in activities requiring group decision making involving
American and East Asian participants, East Asians reported feeling less
included in the decision-making process than their American counterparts
(Artitz & Walker, 2014).
➢ Low participation in group work may stem from unfamiliarity, but also from
expectations about leadership.
9. Leadership roles
➢ Western attitudes about leadership are “characterized by individualism and
self-sufficiency, competitiveness, toughness, and rationality” (Artitz &
Walker, 2014).
➢ East Asians from Confucian-influenced cultures “value benevolence, harmony
with others, and self-restraint in leaders” (Artitz & Walker, 2014).
10. Leadership roles
Whereas American who were surveyed valued “decisive and task-oriented”
leadership, East Asians tended to value and expect leadership qualities such as,
“involves others in decision making” and “status-conscious and procedural” and
“modest and compassionate” (Artitz & Walker, 2014).
11. Implications for instruction
While you probably can’t change your students’ culturally-based views about
leadership and group work, the tips I listed regarding turn-taking procedures and
assigning roles can mitigate some of the communication and participation
problems that teachers often report.
13. References
Aritz, J., & Walker, R. C. (2014). Leadership styles in multicultural groups: Americans and East Asians working together.
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Editor's Notes
It is possible for people who share a language to have communication difficulties based on different culturally-based expectations.
