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Brown, Majorie Angel – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
Beginning graduate students who are working in higher education can benefit from establishing a professional development plan designed to enhance leadership capacity. The challenge is to align personal goals with those of the graduate program, yet ensure that collegial socialization and professional competency development occurs. Professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Leadership Training, Capacity Building
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Kruger, Mellissa L. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
At the beginning of my academic journey I held the belief that I would learn to teach simply by teaching. To my dismay, I had underestimated the complicated nature of teaching in higher education and gave little consideration to the ways students learn. Feeling overwhelmed by my situation, I began questioning my teaching practices and student…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Inclusion
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Santhanam, Elizabeth; Paulusz, Wendy – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2009
The Faculty of Engineering in an Australian university collaborated with a central academic/educational development unit to design and deliver a teaching development program for all engineering teaching assistants (TAs). This paper discusses the approach taken to promote inclusive education in engineering in a situation with competing priorities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Teaching Assistants
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McHeimech, Zeinab – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2009
Can we effectively integrate Deaf students into our post-secondary classes before recognizing and listening to them? Studies indicate that Deaf students continue to struggle, be silenced, and experience isolation when mainstreamed. Deaf students, or second-language students, inevitably develop new identities once included; however, we cannot…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Student Diversity
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Steinman, Linda – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2009
Internationalization at the university level may be envisioned in various ways. Often, it is considered along the economic dimensions: money in, money out; international fees; and international articulation possibilities for both education and business. Harris (2008) argues for a less economic, more cultural interpretation of internationalization.…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Global Approach, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
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Jamal, Zenobia; Guo, Shibao – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2008
The student population in Canada's higher education institutions is becoming increasingly racially and culturally diverse. Canadian higher education has the obligation to build inclusive teaching and learning environments where the needs and aspirations of students from diverse cultures and backgrounds can be addressed in an equitable manner.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Classroom Environment, Student Diversity, Educational Change