1st Edition

Tools for Teaching in an Educationally Mobile World

By Jude Carroll Copyright 2015
216 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Tools for Teaching in an Educationally Mobile World examines the challenges that undergraduate and postgraduate teachers often encounter when working with students from different national and cultural backgrounds. It focuses on the consequences for interactive teaching and for course design in a world where students, ideas and courses are mobile, using examples and experiences from a wide range... Read more
Section 1: Teaching across cultures: the issues and the context  Chapter 1. Teaching educationally mobile students in times of change  Chapter 2. The impact of educational mobility on teaching and learning  Chapter 3. Teachers as mediators of educational diversity and pedagogic variation   Chapter 4. Learning in English, teaching in English: the issues for teachers  Chapter 5. ‘This is your place, too’: working towards inclusive teaching and learning  Section 2: Developing students’ skills for intercultural and communicative competence  Chapter 6. Practical strategies for developing students’ English language proficiency  Chapter 7. Fostering and assessing students’ intercultural competence  Section 3: Intercultural teaching, learning and assessment issues   Chapter 8. Designing programs and courses with an international perspective  Chapter 9. Encouraging student participation in lectures  Chapter 10. Encouraging participation in seminars, tutorials and in supervision  Chapter 11. Managing assessed, collaborative group work involving diverse student groups  Chapter 12. Assessing diverse students: an overview of the issues  Chapter 13. Practical strategies for assessing diverse students and for making assessment accessible, authentic and sustainable  References

Biography

Jude Carroll taught in universities for many years and was awarded a UK Higher Education Academy National Teaching Award in recognition of her work on teaching international students and on learning, teaching and assessment in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. She collaborated with the HEA-sponsored Teaching International Students project (2009–2011).