Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Teaching Seminar
Providing an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and professional staff to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact and reflect on a variety of topics to enhance teaching and learning.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers the following workshop:
Teaching International Students and Multicultural Awareness
Cynthia DeRoma, CETL – Faculty Development Programs
We will start this session by reflecting on how culture affects many aspects we take for granted in most university courses, including power relations, the role of the individual, time, and much more. We will then add the additional hurdle of negotiating all that in a different language. As we discuss how to take advantage of a linguistically and culturally diverse campus, participants will have a chance to share their experiences and learn more about:
– international students’ challenges and successes;
– what we can do to support non-native English speakers in our classes without lowering standards;
– additional resources inside and outside UConn.
Friday, February 10th
1:30-3:00pm
Oak Hall, room 117
Registration is required.
To register and view more workshops, please visit http://cetl.uconn.edu/seminars/.
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu