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TIP: Tailored Intercultural Pedagogy for teachers working with cross-border learners
The challenge
This training assists you with responding to cross-border learners鈥 distinctive needs, which is an Education Code of Practice requirement. Meeting these unique needs requires specialist attention.
With new rigour being introduced to literacy and numeracy in the New Zealand Curriculum, it is all the more important to offer tailored scaffolding for newly arrived cross-border students in schools. Currently, there are no English language pre-requisites for long-stay international students.
For tertiary teachers, retention, mitigating academic misconduct and strengthening international student class participation present sometimes acute and complex challenges.聽聽
Literature and the observations of professional networks show that locally trained teachers possess limited knowledge of: (i) cross-border learners' acculturation stressors; (ii) the impact of smaller English vocabulary sizes; and (iii) the adjustment cross-border learners need to make to adapt to local learning environments.
Our response
What is TIP?
TIP is the fruit of extensive classroom experience, insights from specialist international educationa networks, and the integration of interdisciplinary findings. This training will offer a 鈥渄ragnet pedagogy鈥 that is responsive to learners鈥 cultural orientation, English language limitations and unfamiliarity with the 'hidden curriculum' that tilts towards domestic learners.
Training includes the following components, and the mode of delivery is adapted to sub-sector and host institution contexts:
Training format:
- Policies and practice: Introduction to the objectives, policies and practices of the international education sector. This includes the highlighting of salient clauses in the 2021 Education Code of Practice in relation to all cross-border learners.
- Cross-border learners鈥 unique needs: An overview of the cross-border dynamics learners negotiate, which sets their needs apart from those of domestic students. This includes learner unfamiliarity with teaching approaches, susceptibility to academic misconduct and smaller vocabulary sizes.
- Dragnet pedagogy and language use: Effective interactive strategies informed by interdisciplinary insights are presented and discussed. This includes supporting entry-level English users with user-friendly linguistic tools and techniques for mainstream subject teachers.
Impact
For school and tertiary teachers:
- Introduces teaching staff to the international education sector
- Outlines international students' difficulties adjusting to NZ life and learning
- Presents pedagogic tools for supporting international student learning and inclusion
Training price on inquiry. For more information, please email admin@isana.nz or chris.beard@isana.nz.
