Engaging international students in active learning
Engaging international students in active learning
Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service
Date: Tuesday 26 April 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Venue: Online via Zoom
Category: Academic events
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann
Website: www.glasgow.ac.uk/leads/events
With rising international student numbers come many inspiring encounters but also potential misalignments of teacher and student expectations. These misalignments apply especially to expectations around how learning should take place and the role teachers and students play in the (co-)construction of knowledge. Engaging students from diverse academic cultures in an active learning process can be a particular hurdle due to students being unfamiliar with the concept and practice of co-constructing knowledge in the classroom. In order to create more alignment with our students, this session will offer an overview of the specific transition challenges of international students and introduce approaches on how to engage them more actively in their learning and include them in the classroom community as a whole. Drawing on insights from intercultural pedagogy, many of these approaches will include rapport-building activities which are easy to integrate into subject specific teaching. Selected activities will be evaluated with a view for participants to find one that may be compatible with the objectives of their upcoming courses. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach diverse international student cohorts.