It's me, your instructor:
Justyna Giezynska
International education has been my passion for the last 17 years. For the last 9 years, I have been working directly with university staff as a trainer and training facilitator.
I graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC (MA) and University of California, Santa Cruz (BA in Cultural Anthropology), both in the USA.
Apart from Poland and USA, I lived in Italy and Hungary - I spent abroad about 13 years.
I currently coordinate two multi-member Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships related to internationalisation of teaching and learning as Intercultural Classroom is now in my focus.
Watch this video if you are already teaching multicultural, multilingual students. Scroll down for a video if you have never taught such groups.
"Growing an Intercultural Mindset" is a course
for academic teachers working in a multinational, multicultural and multilingual environment.
This course is delivered asynchronously, with occasional special live online meetings, and weekly non-mandatory office hours.
Thanks to this course, you will:
Gain knowledge about the concepts of culture and intercultural competence and their impact on the didactic work environment;
Acquire skills to effectively and appropriatelly communicate with students from different cultures in a variety of situations, including situations of conflict;
Develop attitutes helping you build an inclusive space for diverse learners and to successfully mentor students.
The course contains:
- video lectures;
- materials to download;
- excercises and „homework”;
- an option to meet with me and other course participants during office hours.
There is no exam. Upon completion, participants receive a certificate issued by Studybility.
Watch this video if you are new to teaching diverse groups of students.
Course dates:
The next edition starts on
Oct.16, 2023
Course format:
16 hours of online classwork & homework.
Optional office hours week.
Course workload:
A module is released each week for 6 weeks of the course.
Each module requires 2-3 hours of work.
After the last module is released, you will have two extra weeks to still access course materials and complete your work.
Price:
599€ per person
You will be learning in six modules:
Part A. Course Introduction
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Preparatory Module
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Module 1: Culture in Higher Education
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- Introduction and Intended Learning Outcomes for Module 1 (1 min)
- Key Points in Internationalisation of Higher Education (20 min) (17:57)
- Internationalisation of Higher Education - a Brief History (40 min)
- Global Citizens in Higher Education (20 min)
- ACTIVITY! Transformation toward Global Citizenship
- How do you understand culture (5 min)
- Culture: an Onion or an Iceberg (20 min) (13:32)
- Definitions of Culture and their Purpose (5 min)
- Post-COVID19 Reality and Academic Teaching (10 min) (10:13)
Module 2: Intercultural Competence (ICC)
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- Introduction and Intended Learning Outcomes for Module 2 (1 min)
- Understanding Intercultural Competence (ICC) (15 min) (13:58)
- Cultural Humility Explained (30 min)
- Academic Teachers and ICC (45 min)
- Values Across the World (15 min) (0:28)
- ACTIVITY! Values That Drive Us (15 min)
- ICC Case Studies (35 min)
- The Intercultural Development (10 min) (4:10)
- Enculturation, Acculturation and Culture Shock (15 min) (14:58)
- ACTIVITY! How to be prepared for a culture shock (15 min)
Module 3: Intercultural Management in Relations with Students
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- Introduction and Intended Learning Outcomes for Module 3 (1 min)
- Intercultural Management In the Classroom. Is That Even Possible? (10 min)
- A Student's Lifecycle at a University (5 min) (2:45)
- Cultural Diversity (10 min)
- ACTIVITY! Diversity of Your Students (10 min)
- Finland: A Case Study in Diversity (30 min)
- Stereotyping: So Easy, So Hard (15 min) (4:16)
- ACTIVITY! Stereotypes: from Thoughts to Actions (10 min)
- Applied Practice: National Culture (30 min)
- ACTIVITY! Do You Recognise Your National Culture? (10 min)
- Applied Practice: Culture Map (30 min)
Module 4: Teaching and Learning in an Intercultural Environment
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- Introduction and Intended Learning Outcomes for Module 4 (1 min)
- Intercultural Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual Classroom (5 min)
- Verbal Communication and the Role of Language (30 min) (15:58)
- ACTIVITY! Do you really know how you speak? (15 min)
- Speaking Without Words (20 min) (10:40)
- The Listening Wheel (5 min) (4:17)
- ACTIVITY! A True Listener (15 min)
- Delivering Feedback (10 min)
- ACTIVITY! How Do You Give Feedback? (10 min)
Module 5: Interacting with International Students Outside of the Classroom
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- Introduction and Intended Learning Outcomes for Module 5 (1 min)
- ACTIVITY! Where Are the International Students? (20 min)
- Your University as a Home (5 min) (4:25)
- Communicating across the Generations (5 min) (4:48)
- ACTIVITY! Daily Communication with Students (25 min)
- Hierarchy, Space and Time in Daily Interactions (10 min)
- ACTIVITY! In-Person Interaction (5 min)
- Distance Interaction (20 min)
- ACTIVITY! Distance Interaction (20 min)
Module 6: Intercultural Crisis Management
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- Introduction and Intended Learning Outcomes for Module 6 (1 min)
- The Anatomy of a Conflict (10 min)
- Conflict Styles (5 min)
- ACTIVITY! Spheres of Misunderstanding (10 min)
- The Theory of an Intercultural Conflict (15 min)
- When Things Go Wrong... (15 min)
- Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (10 min)
- ACTIVITY! Conflicts around the world (15 min)
- Case Study: Israeli-Palenstinian Conflict (45 min)
- Negotiations in an Intercultural Setting (20 min)
- Conflict as a Propeller for Change (20 min)
- ACTIVITY! And They Lived Happily Ever After? (10 min)
- Conflict Resolution across Cultures (5 min)
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