Join Victoria Surtees for Chat Internationalization (Chat-I) to discuss the topic: Promoting engagement with materials. Tailor messages to audiences with different levels of linguistic ability.
We will be doing that by exploring the following prompt: How to we promote student engagement with the materials that we assign?
In our session, we’ll discuss:
- Your strategies for selecting and promoting student engagement with readings and other materials.
- A text selection strategy called the “Quad text set.”
- A strategy to support student reading called “reverse reading”.
Chat-I is an opportunity to hear what colleagues are doing in different disciplines and to think through wicked problems together.
This year, Chat-I topics are inspired by the Intercultural Facilitation Competencies developed by Dimitrov and Haque (2016).
- For each session, we will explore resources, discuss tensions, and share practical strategies for building our skills as facilitators in different areas.
- As always, come to one session or many, bring a friend, or stay on the mailing list to receive the materials from each session.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Online Via Zoom
To register, or for more information, please contact: TLCevents@ufv.ca
Upcoming dates & topics:
| Month | Topic | Skills we’ll build |
| November 13, 2025 | Promoting engagement with materials | Tailor messages to audiences with different levels of linguistic ability |
| December 11, 2025 | Designing for equity | Recognize the barriers students may face in participating in class |
| January 8, 2026 | Designing accountable discussion spaces | Identify risk factors for learners that might surface during classroom activities |
| February 12, 2026 | Cross-cultural group work | Create opportunities for peer learning and interactions among diverse learners |
| March 12, 2026 | Teaching for integrity | Articulate the meaning of academic integrity in one’s own discipline. |
| April 9, 2026 | Growing students’ networks | Mentor students during their transition to new cultures and disciplines |
| May 14, 2026 | Clear and kind feedback | Provide feedback across cultures in a variety of ways |
| June 11, 2026 | Teaching listening | Facilitate discussions among students with a variety of communication styles |
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