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Instructors: Katherine Beydler, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Teaching, and Tamar Bernfeld, PhD, Assistant Director, Center for Teaching

Description:

This session will focus on how to consider and include the perspective of students with English as an additional language in all classrooms. We will invite participants to reflect on their own experiences to inform our conversation and discuss how to accommodate the needs of diverse learner backgrounds.

Participants who attend this session will learn:

• Teaching strategies intended to welcome multilingual learners
• Techniques for giving transparent feedback to all students
• Inclusive assignment and learning activity design
   

Engaging Across Cultures is offered by International Student and Scholar Services and extends the success of our Building Our Global Community series for staff and faculty by creating a special series tailored to graduate and professional students at the University of Iowa. Engaging Across Cultures is a non-academic, professional development certificate program that creates an opportunity for UI graduate and professional students to learn more about fostering an intercultural campus while honing skills that will carry into the future workplace.

Participants may take sessions individually, without working toward a certificate. Successful fulfillment of Engaging Across Cultures requires completion of the introductory session and two elective sessions. Engaging Across Cultures is free of charge to participants and the program does not offer course credit for participating in it. Individuals who complete the professional development certificate program will receive a certificate and be recognized on the International Programs website.