Section I Teaching across cultures: the issues and the context -- Teaching educationally mobile students in times of change -- The impact of educational mobility on teaching and learning -- Teachers as mediators of educational diversity and pedagogic variation -- Teachers as mediators of educational diversity and pedagogic variation -- Learning in English, teaching in English: issues for teachers -- 'This is your place too': working towards inclusive teaching and learning -- Section II Developing students' skills for intercultural and communicative competence -- Practical strategies for developing students' English language proficiency -- Fostering and assessing students' intercultural competence -- Section III Intercultural teaching, learning and assessment issues -- Designing programmes and courses with an international perspective -- Encouraging student participation in lectures -- Encouraging participation in seminars, tutorials and in supervision -- Managing assessed, collaborative group work involving diverse student groups -- Assessing diverse students: an overview of the issues -- Practical strategies for making assessment accessible, authentic and sustainable.
Summary
"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 of disciplines and national contexts. It not only considers Anglophone countries, including the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, but also the use of English as a language of instruction in countries where neither teachers nor students are native English speakers"--
