Teaching International Students

Being explicit about assessment

• Look at the list of students’ previous assessment experiences
• Identify where such students will have
• difficulties or surprises in UK universities
• 3. Task: Write explicit statements to explain to your students what they will have to do for assessments in your course (describe each activity).

Managing assessed group work

• Is the task really a group task? What makes it a group, and not an individual task?
• On what basis are you going to form the groups and why?
• What induction into group work have the students had?
• What induction into group work are you going to give the students?
• If the groups don’t work what plans do you have in place to resolve conflict?
• How will you be monitoring the group task/progress?
• What is the division of marks between group work and individual effort?
• What are the assessment criteria?

Academic Writing

• Get students writing early and often
• Refer to specialists early if needed
• Don’t tackle everything at once
• Start with structure
• What is the argument/story
• Sequencing - logical order
• Paragraph theme sentences
• Now for the details
• Short sentences
• Punctuation
• Let some things go!

• Muddled writing is a clear indication
• of muddled thoughts!
• [Robert Brown]
• Get students to talk through what they want to say

Summary

• Get to know your students and what is different/difficult for them and work out ways of helping them to understand ‘How the West is done’.
• [Singh and Doherty, 200x]

• Any Questions?

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