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CMHSE Workshop P: Teaching culturally diverse groups - Clayton

Published: 11 June 2008

The Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education (CMHSE) is now offering a range of staff development workshops for clinical teachers from all areas of health professional education. These objective driven, practically orientated workshops are based on topics that teachers have indicated are important and relevant in today’s complex teaching environment.

The next available workshop will be Workshop P: Teaching culturally diverse groups.

Time: 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2008
Venue: Clayton
Facilitator: Andrea Paul

This workshop outlines some of the language and cultural factors affecting clinical teaching and learning in multicultural groups, and introduces practical strategies for teaching students from non-English speaking language backgrounds. Principles and approaches learned in this workshop can be applied more widely to a range of teaching contexts. The workshop focuses on:

• The relationship between communication style, culture and language
• The ways in which discourse rules, based in culture, impact on communication
• Cultural, language and teaching methodology factors that may inhibit international students and influence clinical learning and performance
• Principles and methodology for a safe and effective learning environment
• Instructional strategies and teacher language to facilitate increased student participation
• The integration of communication skills teaching into clinical content

Cost:

• Monash University staff - no cost
• Monash University Associates* - $55
• External participants - $110

*Associates are those teachers with direct teaching responsibilities for Monash University Health Professional students i.e. clinical teachers, PBL tutors, clinical supervisors.

Registration is available at the educator workshops webpage.