Teaching International Students: Diversifying Your Classroom
Workshop Description:
With a growing number of international students, classroom environments are becoming more diverse. When designing a course, embracing different cultures and background knowledge can be challenging. From this workshop, participants will learn how to acknowledge and bridge the differences international students bring into the classroom and to improve classroom climate.
About the Facilitators:
Eunice Bae is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Chemistry Department. She has been a teaching assistance for General and Physical chemistry laboratory courses at Northwestern. She is part of chemistry graduate student teachers (CGST), which is an organization in the chemistry department to foster graduate students as teachers and to improve learning experiences for undergraduate students.