teaching strategies for the international brain - american honors faculty conference 2016

July 2016

Teaching Strategies for the International BrainAmerican Honors Faculty Conference

Learning Habits

How Do We Learn?

Source: ccdmd

How Do We Learn?

Integrate

Encode

Retrieve

Source: Sigmalive

Memory Structures

Memory and Stress

Source: Williams (1999)

Global Mindset

AH Students from around the world

1 25+

Fall 2015 Cohort, as of June 30, 2016

AH Students from different backgrounds

Average incoming HS GPA: 3.48(verified)

Class of 2017 (as of June 29, 2016)

Gender Ethnicity First Generation

AH Global Student = Brain in Transition

AH Global Student = Brain in Transition

Academic

Language

Identity

Inclusive Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies for the International Brain

Create a global knowledge lab by eliciting participation from all students

Facilitate multimodal learning opportunities

Link their present learning to their past knowledge

How to adapt examples and teaching process to global classroom?

How to identify and support at-risk international students?

Best practices you can take away?

Discussion