Improving Academic Literacy for
International Students

(Retired) | Last updated June 22, 2015
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Improving Academic Literacy for
International Students

(Retired) | Last updated June 22, 2015

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Improving Academic Literacy for International Students
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Overview

This online training will give you strategies for engaging faculty and staff to help international students build the skills that are essential for their academic success. You will gain ideas for providing targeted co-curricular academic literacy support to help students perform better in the classroom. You will learn how to:

  • Identify barriers to students developing their academic literacy
  • Build courses and services to support student development
  • Engage faculty, staff, and the students themselves in the process
  • Assess the impact of initiatives and learning

Who should attend?

Academic and student support staff charged with improving international student outcomes (both graduate and undergraduate) will learn new ideas on improving academic literacy.

Agenda

  • Defining academic literacy
  • Identifying struggling students and potential barriers to their success
  • Building support programming
    • Coursework and services
    • Programmatic examples
      • Proactive orientation
      • Advanced writing, critical reading and analysis, advanced speaking, and presenting
      • Group work and working in intercultural teams
  • Engaging faculty and staff
  • Assessing the impact
  • Resources for future reference

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Why is this event retired?

At AI we want to always ensure that the best and most current trainings are available to members, and we regularly review our trainings to ensure that is the case.