Teaching large international groups (A/B)

Dates and work units: 12 WU

• Wed, 28.05.25, 9:00-14:00 o'clock online (6 WU)
• self-paced learning between both workshop days (2 WU)
• Fr, 06.06.2025, 9:00-12:30 o'clock online (4 WU)

Registration:
Please register until Wed, 18.05.2025.
Later registrations may not be taken into account. This workshop is organized and funded by Project LInK and therefore free of costs for participants.

Content:
This course is designed to support lecturers in successfully teaching large student groups in an international setting. We will explore how teaching methods and content can be adapted to engage a heterogeneous audience, leveraging the diversity of both students and lecturers as a resource. In addition, we will critically examine our own (unconscious) biases that influence the teaching process and focus on diversity-sensitive communication.
In addition to theoretical input, the course features interactive activities that encourage participants to reflect on their own teaching practices and share their own experiences. Particular emphasis will be placed on strategies and methods to promote engagement, participation and inclusion in large classes, which participants will be asked to actively reflect on between the two sessions. The aim is to develop a resource- and potential-oriented understanding of diversity, which implies that an appropriate and critical approach to diversity in an international setting can promote the professional and personal development of students.
By the end of the course, participants will have developed strategies to effectively manage diversity in large international classrooms and will be equipped to design inclusive and engaging teaching and learning processes.

Learning goals:
The participants will ...

• explore internationalisation and diversity in large academic teaching and learning settings;
• discuss obstacles and benefits of teaching large student groups in an international context;
• identify and develop strategies to accommodate student diversity in large classrooms;
• analyze how communication and implicit bias affect teaching and learning in an international setting;
• reflect on and evaluate teaching methods to foster engagement, inclusion and leverage diversity in their teaching.

Location:
Online

Methods and approaches:
Theoretical input, self-reflection, group work.
Course Language: English

Facilitator:
Dr. Monika Staab: holds a PhD in adult and continuing education from the Universities of Würzburg and Florence and is a certified Holistic Life Coach and Mind-Body Practitioner. She supports students, lecturers and higher education institutions as a freelance coach and trainer. Her focus is on digital teaching, blended learning, internationalisation of higher education, activating methods, mindfulness as well as stress and self-management. She has extensive theoretical and practical experience in university didactics and has completed numerous international study and research visits.