Cultivating Intercultural Teaching Competence in Graduate ......RPG students UG students 10148 83%...
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HKUSTMs Elaine WONGDr Beatrice CHU
Ms Nicole LAI
Cultivating Intercultural Teaching Competence in
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Breakout Room 3: Nurturing Global Leaders and Citizens
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2-semester pilot project of a UGC-funded teaching and learning project,Internationalising Teaching and Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education through Building Professional Capacity (HKU14/T&L/16-19)
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in the next 10 minutes,
How?
Why this Project?
What’s in it for ____________?
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—Leo, one of the ICGTAs
“By just raising awareness, there can already be lots of changes.”
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—Dennis, one of the ICGTAs
“Making people ‘see’ the diversity and giving them this ability.
The word ‘insight’ is also about ‘sight’.”
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Why this Project?putting thoughts into action
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Challenges
Venus is the second planet from the Sun
RPGstudents
UGstudents
10148
83% local
600
20% local
17% non-local80% non-local
serve as Graduate Teaching Assistants
(GTAs)
21 academic departments/
divisions
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❏ Cultural differences❏ Different expectations of roles❏ Acceptable class behaviours❏ Communication and learning styles❏ Perceptions of T&L
Diversity encountered
Challenges
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Key to create an active learning
environment
Handle issues on diversity
Understand the impacts on teaching
Observe cultural
differences
Be more culturally
competent
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solution
❏ Foster confidence, adaptability, open-mindedness and consideration when
communicating with diverse audiences
❏ Support the development of teaching materials that consider department-specific
T&L needs
❏ Create a collection of diversity-focused teaching resources to be shared by the
broader HKUST community
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How?how to plan and tackle the ongoing challenges?
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Components of Intercultural Teaching Competence
Foundational competencies
❏ knowledge of one’s positionality❏ ability to respond to difference
Curriculum design competencies
❏ the ability to enrich the curriculum with diverse perspectives through the selection of content, learning activities, assessments, and modelling
Facilitation competencies
❏ ability to create a safe, inclusive learning environment
❏ promote dialogues
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Components of Intercultural Teaching Competence
Foundational competencies
❏ knowledge of one’s positionality❏ ability to respond to difference
Curriculum design competencies
❏ the ability to enrich the curriculum with diverse perspectives through the selection of content, learning activities, assessments, and modelling
Facilitation competencies
❏ ability to create a safe, inclusive learning environment
❏ promote dialogues
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Covid-19
● F2F workshop● Tutorial/laboratory
observations with CEI
● Canvas course● Project team reflection
● Zoom workshop● Interviews with participants
● Now!● What’s next?
Spring 2018
Fall 2019
Spring 2020
Fall 2020
● Nomination● interviews
recruitment
9 ICGTAs from different disciplines
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for students. for instructors. for the learning environment.
What’s in it for ?
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throughout this programme,
Knowledge Strategies
Experience Perspectives
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F2F workshop in Spring 18
● Why ITC is Important
● What cultural viewpoints are brought into the
classroom
● How cultural differences impact students’
engagement
● What observable intercultural cues indicative of
diversity
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Zoom workshop in Spring 20
● A flipped classroom approach
● Reflect on ITC in real teaching scenarios
● Bring in different perspectives
● Apply intercultural instructional strategies
● Discuss case examples from ICGTAs’
classroom observations
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Class observation
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Canvas Course
2 Modules
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videos
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Customized interactions
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Digitalized self test
Flipping cards with instructional strategies
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Animated case examples from ICGTAs’ classroom observation
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Miro board for Zoom training
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Highlights from the two workshops
Video here (cut on thur)
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Create an active and intercultural learning environment
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Enhance GTAs’ intercultural awareness, teaching competence, and strategies
Design and facilitate with educational technology
Think of how to bring it forward by scaling it up
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—Leo, one of the participating ICGTAs
“Mastering the skills of intercultural communication helps
you in teaching. It’s also about how you see and live in this world.
We cannot live in isolation.We are connected.”
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