Learning from your students need not mean you stop teaching them anything! But balancing our own curricular goals with the needs and desires an increasingly multilingual and international, media saturated, and ChatGPT savvy student body may require some new teaching strategies. In this workshop, we will discuss strategies for building an intentional and welcoming classroom community with Penn’s diverse body of international students in mind. We’ll think through the ways our course content and curricular goals exist in conversation with the varied lived experiences and linguistic histories of the students we teach, and how we can learn more about our students and the worlds they navigate. Ideally, participants will leave this workshop with some new ways we can learn from our students and build a lively classroom community while simultaneously engaging students in class curricular goals—perhaps even expanding those goals along the way.

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Graduate School of Education, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.