Over the past year we have expanded the Teaching Breakfast by meeting weekly and creating two opportunities to join in the conversation: Teaching Breakfast on Thursday mornings
and Coffee Chat on Wednesday afternoons. We are continuing with this schedule for the coming semester with one tweak. Our plan is to alternate between Teaching Breakfast and Coffee Chats each week. We will still meet both in person and virtually, so if
you feel comfortable participating in person, come on down; if you would rather meet via Teams, hop on your computer! These spaces will continue to be a place to come together to talk about new modalities you might be using to teach and hopefully share and
get a few answers. This week we will be holding our Coffee Chat:
Our readings for this week explore some concepts around internationalization in higher education and ways to cope being in the middle of an intercultural experience.
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The End of Internationalization – The attached article is from the journal
International Higher Education and explores the idea of internationalization and what it should look like for campuses in a global age. The questions on page 5 are useful to rethink how we should reframe this concept.
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Brené Brown, the Messy Middle & Intercultural Learning – While this article explores ideas from the start of the pandemic, they still resonate in
the current moment. I like the “messy middle” concept as a way to talk about getting our students and ourselves to accept the uncomfortableness of learning. In this article the focus is on intercultural learning, but it could also be for any learning context.
We look forward to
hearing about your ideas of supporting your students through uncomfortable learning.
We hope to see you on Wednesday afternoon for Coffee Chat (March 30)
if you can make it!
Chilton
Chilton Reynolds
TLTC Interim Director
COIL Campus Coordinator
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC)
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY 13820
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Phone: 607-436-2673