ITAIS Newsletter - January 2012 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
Leadership Updates
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
•  CLARIFYING EXPECTATIONS AND BUILDING CONNECTIONS: A PRE-ARRIVAL ONLINE COURSE FOR INTERNATIONAL TAs
•  BEING A CULTURALLY EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR
•  ITAS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  WHAT IS THE ITAIS?

Leadership Updates

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Rebecca Oreto, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Hello, ITAIS members!

This is an exciting issue of the ITAIS Newsletter for me, because it is an extra issue! We have had so many great submissions to the newsletter that we were able to produce a fourth issue this year.

In this issue, we have three articles that detail useful pedagogical activities for ITA trainers, from exercises and projects that you can do with current ITA students to a description of an online program run with new ITAs before they even get to the United States.

Enjoy our colleagues’ articles and have a great semester!