Description:

Workshop Description:

With a growing number of international students, classroom environments are becoming more diverse. When designing a course, embracing different cultures and background knowledge can be challenging. From this workshop, participants will learn how to acknowledge and bridge the differences international students bring into the classroom and to improve classroom climate.

About the Facilitators:

Eunice Bae is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Chemistry Department. She has been a teaching assistance for General and Physical chemistry laboratory courses at Northwestern. She is part of chemistry graduate student teachers (CGST), which is an organization in the chemistry department to foster graduate students as teachers and to improve learning experiences for undergraduate students.

Utsav Manjeer is a PhD candidate in the department of Economics. His main field of interest is in development economics and as part of his research, he has worked in Ghana, India and Rwanda and the US.Prior to that, Utsav obtained his BA in Economics and Mathematics from Cornell university and attended high school in India. Teaching being an integral interest of Utsav’s curriculum, he has TA-ed several classes and led a workshop for new TAs in the past.