HKUSTMs Elaine WONGDr Beatrice CHU

Ms Nicole LAI

Cultivating Intercultural Teaching Competence in

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Breakout Room 3: Nurturing Global Leaders and Citizens

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)

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.”

—Dennis, one of the ICGTAs

“Making people ‘see’ the diversity and giving them this ability.

The word ‘insight’ is also about ‘sight’.”

Why this Project?putting thoughts into action

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

❏ Cultural differences❏ Different expectations of roles❏ Acceptable class behaviours❏ Communication and learning styles❏ Perceptions of T&L

Diversity encountered

Challenges

Key to create an active learning

environment

Handle issues on diversity

Understand the impacts on teaching

Observe cultural

differences

Be more culturally

competent

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

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

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

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

for students. for instructors. for the learning environment.

What’s in it for ?

throughout this programme,

Knowledge Strategies

Experience Perspectives

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

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

Class observation

Canvas Course

2 Modules

videos

Customized interactions

Digitalized self test

Flipping cards with instructional strategies

Animated case examples from ICGTAs’ classroom observation

Miro board for Zoom training

Highlights from the two workshops

Video here (cut on thur)

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

—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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