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| Leadership Updates |
| LETTER FROM THE EDITOR |
| Rebecca Oreto, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
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| ARTICLES |
| CLARIFYING EXPECTATIONS AND BUILDING CONNECTIONS: A PRE-ARRIVAL ONLINE COURSE FOR INTERNATIONAL TAs |
| Kate Martin and Jeff Lindgren, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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Last summer, the University of Minnesota piloted a pre-arrival
online course for ITAs in the College of Science and Engineering.
Student evaluations indicated that the course helped them understand
expectations, improve their English, care more about their future role
as TAs, and feel more excited about coming to Minnesota. Read More |
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| BEING A CULTURALLY EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR |
| Pauline Carpenter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
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Living and studying in a different culture, ITAs may face
challenges being culturally effective communicators in their various
roles. This article describes a workshop developed for ITAs in which
participants review and discuss differences in communication across
cultures and develop strategies for being competent communicators in an
American university context. Read More |
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| ITAS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK |
| Dr. Krystyna Golkowska, Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar, Doha |
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Golkowska proposes ethnographic fieldwork as a framework for
designing activities that build communicative and cultural competence of
international students in ITA development programs. Read More |
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| ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY |
| WHAT IS THE ITAIS? |
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