Description:

About the workshop:

International students face difficulties that can be “invisible” to the instructor and the classroom.

In this workshop, participants will explore these challenges from the students’ point of view and learn strategies to achieve cross-cultural collaboration. Specifically, participants will draft a list of course and counseling components that facilitate a course design based on balanced cultural teaching frameworks.

About the facilitators:

Eugenia Vasileiadou is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Chemistry Department. Her research focuses on the exploratory synthesis, thin film fabrication and structure-property characterization of halide perovskites for optoelectronic applications. At Northwestern, Eugenia has been a teaching assistant for several sequences of General Chemistry courses, including laboratory and recitation sections. She has completed the Teaching Certificate Program, and served as a workshop leader for the Northwestern Graduate Student Teaching Conference and the Chemistry Department-Orientation TA training. Additionally, she has been involved in outreach instruction of Hellenic culture and language. Eugenia is passionate about implementing learning-centered and inclusive teaching practices in STEM.

Aoi Saito is a second-year student in the Ph.D. program of the History Department. Her focus is on women in the entertainment industry in twentieth-century Japan. Her current project examines a prostitute who traveled in the Empire of Japan during World War II in order to describe prostitutes' lives outside of the sex business. Before coming to Northwestern, she worked as a language instructor in a few universities. At Northwestern, she has been a teaching assistant for history courses, such as global history. Also, she served as a workshop leader for the Northwestern Graduate Student Teaching Conference in 2020. Aoi is interested in the assessment and evaluation of courses.