GlobalWe've organized our workshops into broad themes to guide and inform your decisions.
The themes are not meant to limit your participation in any way. You may choose to take one, some, or all the workshops under a theme that aligns with your interests and needs, and you may take any workshop under any other theme.
Themes:
- Theoretical Foundations for Teaching in Globally Diverse Classes
- Support for Group Work: Supporting Long-Term or High-Stakes Student Groups
- Inclusive Learning Communities: Integration, Inclusion, and Community Building in the Classroom
- Becoming Global Citizens: Deepening Students’ Global, International, and Intercultural Perspectives
- Intercultural Interaction: Developing Important Skills and Attitudes
Theoretical Foundations for Teaching in Globally Diverse Classes
This set of offerings focuses on why we as educators need to care about integrating global diversity in our learning environments, what the research tells us we can do to create more inclusive learning environments, and how that can impact student learning. While this group of workshops is more theory-based, it also offers practical tools, strategies and frameworks that can be applied as you consider your student learning goals and in your classes.
In this workshop we will introduce and provide examples of different culture patterns. Together, we’ll explore how they impact interactions that are part of every learning environment. focus on how different cultural patterns can influence engagement, participation, instructor-student interactions, and student-student interactions. We will grapple with common and challenging class scenarios as they relate to cultural differences. Participants will leave with increased understanding, appreciation, and confidence along with skills, strategies, and resources for more effectively engaging cultural differences.
How can we design a course that will deepen our students’ international, intercultural, and global learning? Join us for this interactive online workshop where you will consider ways to scaffold and align internationalized learning outcomes, assessments, teaching strategies, and content to prepare global ready students.
In this workshop we explore the assets and added value of cultural and linguistic diversity (consider how red + blue = purple!). After hearing from international and domestic students about their experiences, hopes, and expectations in their globally diverse classes, participants will experience and share frameworks, strategies, and activities that actively and intentionally include and engage this diversity so that its full learning potential can be realized across all disciplines.
This 1-hour workshop is designed to help you consider the role of cultural communication styles in your classroom, so you can help your students deepen their intercultural communication skills. During the webinar, we will review high-context and low-context communication styles used in different cultures and countries and provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your own communication style. You will also experience a teaching activity that you can do with your students on cultural communication styles.
Join a conversation on class participation to learn and share ideas, resources, and tools for establishing broader and deeper student engagement and interaction. We will facilitate this discussion using an activity that invites all voices, the Whip Around.
Support for Group Work: Supporting Long-Term or High-Stakes Student Groups
This set of offerings supports instructors in courses where students are asked to engage in group work that is long-term and/or high stakes. The offerings in this cluster provide ideas and strategies instructors can use to help students create effective, inclusive, and meaningful group experiences.
In this workshop we explore the assets and added value of cultural and linguistic diversity (consider how red + blue = purple!). After hearing from international and domestic students about their experiences, hopes, and expectations in their globally diverse classes, participants will experience and share frameworks, strategies, and activities that actively and intentionally include and engage this diversity so that its full learning potential can be realized across all disciplines.
You will experience one quick and easy “check-in’ activity, the 7-Word Story, and discuss others that can be integrated into your course design in order to 1) build and strengthen a sense of community among learners, 2) broaden participation, 3) provide frequent and brief opportunities for students to engage content and practice and develop interpersonal and intercultural skills, and, very importantly, 4) for you to gather valuable information from students about the students themselves and/or about what and how they are processing class content.
This is a fun activity that demonstrates our human tendency to gravitate to the familiar—people who look, think, and act like us, as well as the limitations of this tendency. We observe this in our classrooms all the time. Students self-segregate into their same social or cultural groups, and in doing so miss out on valuable opportunities to grow their networks, broaden their perspectives, and practice intercultural skills needed in our interconnected world.
This 1-hour workshop is designed to help you consider the role of cultural communication styles in your classroom, so you can help your students deepen their intercultural communication skills. During the webinar, we will review high-context and low-context communication styles used in different cultures and countries and provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your own communication style. You will also experience a teaching activity that you can do with your students on cultural communication styles.
Learn one approach for establishing class or group agreements and expectations. Establishing class or group agreements and expectations sets a tone for the course that reinforces intentionality and collaborative decision-making processes, and the idea that the classroom learning environment is something we all contribute to, are responsible for, and can influence. Making these explicit and clear for yourself and for students is important for all members of the class, and even more so for students who may be new to U.S. classrooms and educational practices in higher education.
Experience an activity that is especially valuable for fostering rapport among students from diverse cultural backgrounds. During this 30-minute webinar, we will model and discuss effective facilitation strategies for how you can help your students "find common ground."
One challenge that many instructors face is a concern about fitting in all the required course content while also engaging students in active learning. A jigsaw activity is a way to do both by partially shifting the onus of teaching content onto the students. Come experience the Jigsaw activity with your colleagues, and consider/discuss course content that lends itself to the jigsaw approach.
Join a conversation on class participation to learn and share ideas, resources, and tools for establishing broader and deeper student engagement and interaction. We will facilitate this discussion using an activity that invites all voices, the Whip Around.
Learning and using students’ names, and encouraging students to do the same with each other, is essential for building community in your class. There are many creative ways to encourage students to learn and use names. In this 30-minute session, we will experience two simple activities and discuss others.
Inclusive Learning Communities: Integration, Inclusion and Community Building in the Classroom
This set of offerings focuses on creating a welcoming, supportive and inclusive learning environment in any classroom, regardless of whether students are asked to engage in group work. The proposed workshops provide a variety of different ways for students to engage with course content and with each other. Actively and intentionally establishing an inclusive learning space where students feel known, seen, heard and valued is critical for effective learning to take place. Casey and Murphy Robinson write in their book, Neuroscience of Inclusion, “A feeling of belonging and being a valued member of the group is not just nice to have; it is a brain requirement for survival and to feel and operate at our best.” (2017, p. 12)
In this workshop we explore the assets and added value of cultural and linguistic diversity (consider how red + blue = purple!). After hearing from international and domestic students about their experiences, hopes, and expectations in their globally diverse classes, participants will experience and share frameworks, strategies, and activities that actively and intentionally include and engage this diversity so that its full learning potential can be realized across all disciplines.
Join us to learn about this versatile and easy classroom assessment technique (CAT). This activity serves to provide instructors with valuable mid-term information on how students are doing. We will share several ways this activity can be implemented to demonstrate its versatility.
You will experience one quick and easy “check-in’ activity, the 7-Word Story, and discuss others that can be integrated into your course design in order to 1) build and strengthen a sense of community among learners, 2) broaden participation, 3) provide frequent and brief opportunities for students to engage content and practice and develop interpersonal and intercultural skills, and, very importantly, 4) for you to gather valuable information from students about the students themselves and/or about what and how they are processing class content.
This is a fun activity that demonstrates our human tendency to gravitate to the familiar—people who look, think, and act like us, as well as the limitations of this tendency. We observe this in our classrooms all the time. Students self-segregate into their same social or cultural groups, and in doing so miss out on valuable opportunities to grow their networks, broaden their perspectives, and practice intercultural skills needed in our interconnected world.
This 1-hour workshop is designed to help you consider the role of cultural communication styles in your classroom, so you can help your students deepen their intercultural communication skills. During the webinar, we will review high-context and low-context communication styles used in different cultures and countries and provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your own communication style. You will also experience a teaching activity that you can do with your students on cultural communication styles.
Learn one approach for establishing class or group agreements and expectations. Establishing class or group agreements and expectations sets a tone for the course that reinforces intentionality and collaborative decision-making processes, and the idea that the classroom learning environment is something we all contribute to, are responsible for, and can influence. Making these explicit and clear for yourself and for students is important for all members of the class, and even more so for students who may be new to U.S. classrooms and educational practices in higher education.
Experience an activity that is especially valuable for fostering rapport among students from diverse cultural backgrounds. During this 30-minute webinar, we will model and discuss effective facilitation strategies for how you can help your students "find common ground."
Come experience a fun, interactive review activity. Give one, get one (GOGO) is a great way to get students up and moving and talking to each other while assessing their understanding. Through this activity students can share key takeaways from a lesson, and based on what they come up with and share, you can learn what students are gaining from the lesson and if there are any underrepresented areas of content that you can address in a future class or exam review session. We will demonstrate the GOGO activity’s versatility, as well.
One challenge that many instructors face is a concern about fitting in all the required course content while also engaging students in active learning. A jigsaw activity is a way to do both by partially shifting the onus of teaching content onto the students. Come experience the Jigsaw activity with your colleagues, and consider/discuss course content that lends itself to the jigsaw approach.
An often-cited reason students choose not to ask questions or contribute to large- or small-group discussions is they are afraid they will “say something stupid.” Come learn a new activity that involves anonymity, and other concrete strategies to alleviate these fears and promote increased participation from all students.
Join a conversation on class participation to learn and share ideas, resources, and tools for establishing broader and deeper student engagement and interaction. We will facilitate this discussion using an activity that invites all voices, the Whip Around.
Learning and using students’ names, and encouraging students to do the same with each other, is essential for building community in your class. There are many creative ways to encourage students to learn and use names. In this 30-minute session, we will experience two simple activities and discuss others.
Becoming Global Citizens: Deepening Global, International, and Intercultural Perspectives
This set of offerings will help instructors from all disciplines internationalize their courses by focusing on students' global, international, and intercultural perspectives. Instructors will gain concrete strategies on how to help students cultivate these perspectives, sharpen students’ comparative thinking, and deepen their sense of global interdependence. They also focus on developing awareness of and concern for global issues, global diversity, and interdependence between the local and the global. Note: If interested in going more in-depth for this theme, consider the Internationalizing Course Design cohort program.
This 1.5-hour workshop is designed to help you reflect on your cultural identity in teaching. You will have an opportunity to think about how the culture(s) you grew up in and lived in for an extended period of time influence your teaching. We will also discuss several strategies on how you can effectively share your intercultural experiences and lessons learned with your students and what you can do to help your students realize that their culture(s) have influenced their perspectives on self, others, and the world.
How can we design a course that will deepen our students’ international, intercultural, and global learning? Join us for this interactive online workshop where you will consider ways to scaffold and align internationalized learning outcomes, assessments, teaching strategies, and content to prepare global ready students.
In this workshop we explore the assets and added value of cultural and linguistic diversity (consider how red + blue = purple!). After hearing from international and domestic students about their experiences, hopes, and expectations in their globally diverse classes, participants will experience and share frameworks, strategies, and activities that actively and intentionally include and engage this diversity so that its full learning potential can be realized across all disciplines.
This is a fun activity that demonstrates our human tendency to gravitate to the familiar—people who look, think, and act like us, as well as the limitations of this tendency. We observe this in our classrooms all the time. Students self-segregate into their same social or cultural groups, and in doing so miss out on valuable opportunities to grow their networks, broaden their perspectives, and practice intercultural skills needed in our interconnected world.
What if you could take your class anywhere in the world right now, with almost no carbon or financial cost, and not just experience the amazing sights and sounds of destinations across the globe, but develop relationships with academic partners, and engage in substantive conversations with your students' peers? With Collaborative Online International Learning, you can. Join this one-hour session on Collaborative Online International Learning, or COIL, if you want to: understand the core principles of COIL pedagogy; discuss guidelines for targeting efficient, fun, and successful project development; review innovative example projects; and prepare for developing a COIL partnership with an international faculty member by reviewing partnership resources and guidelines.
This 1-hour workshop is designed to help you consider the role of cultural communication styles in your classroom, so you can help your students deepen their intercultural communication skills. During the webinar, we will review high-context and low-context communication styles used in different cultures and countries and provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your own communication style. You will also experience a teaching activity that you can do with your students on cultural communication styles.
This 1-hour workshop is designed to help you integrate the UN Sustainable Development Goals into your courses. Integrating the goals can help your students build awareness of global issues and learn about concrete steps they could take to address them on both global and local levels. We will review several methods for and examples of integrating the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that address various global challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate change, peace, and justice that you can include in your classroom discussions.
Intercultural Interaction: Developing Important Skills and Attitudes
This set of offerings will support instructors who want to help students cultivate and advance their interpersonal and intercultural skills. The emphasis is on learning to recognize ourselves and others as cultural beings and on moving forward in our interpersonal interactions with respect, humility and curiosity. These skills and attitudes are essential for preparing students to work in diverse and interactive social environments. Industry leaders (students’ future employers) have expressed that recent graduates have the technical skills they require, but are lacking in skills for working effectively on diverse teams and organizations. All instructors have an opportunity and responsibility to help students develop in these areas as well.
This 1.5-hour workshop is designed to help you reflect on your cultural identity in teaching. You will have an opportunity to think about how the culture(s) you grew up in and lived in for an extended period of time influence your teaching. We will also discuss several strategies on how you can effectively share your intercultural experiences and lessons learned with your students and what you can do to help your students realize that their culture(s) have influenced their perspectives on self, others, and the world.
This is a fun activity that demonstrates our human tendency to gravitate to the familiar—people who look, think, and act like us, as well as the limitations of this tendency. We observe this in our classrooms all the time. Students self-segregate into their same social or cultural groups, and in doing so miss out on valuable opportunities to grow their networks, broaden their perspectives, and practice intercultural skills needed in our interconnected world.
What if you could take your class anywhere in the world right now, with almost no carbon or financial cost, and not just experience the amazing sights and sounds of destinations across the globe, but develop relationships with academic partners, and engage in substantive conversations with your students' peers? With Collaborative Online International Learning, you can. Join this one-hour session on Collaborative Online International Learning, or COIL, if you want to: understand the core principles of COIL pedagogy; discuss guidelines for targeting efficient, fun, and successful project development; review innovative example projects; and prepare for developing a COIL partnership with an international faculty member by reviewing partnership resources and guidelines.
This 1-hour workshop is designed to help you consider the role of cultural communication styles in your classroom, so you can help your students deepen their intercultural communication skills. During the webinar, we will review high-context and low-context communication styles used in different cultures and countries and provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your own communication style. You will also experience a teaching activity that you can do with your students on cultural communication styles.
Experience an activity that is especially valuable for fostering rapport among students from diverse cultural backgrounds. During this 30-minute webinar, we will model and discuss effective facilitation strategies for how you can help your students "find common ground."
Join a conversation on class participation to learn and share ideas, resources, and tools for establishing broader and deeper student engagement and interaction. We will facilitate this discussion using an activity that invites all voices, the Whip Around.