This course aims to help instructors teach successfully in an international setting. We will discuss how course content and teaching and learning methods can be adapted to a diverse audience in order to harness the potential of the diversity among students and instructors. We will also examine our own (unconscious) assumptions that we, as lecturers, bring to the teaching process and explore diversity-sensitive communication.

In addition to theoretical input, the course includes interactive activities that encourage participants to reflect on their own teaching and share their own experiences. The aim is to develop a resource- and potential-oriented understanding of diversity, which implies that an appropriate and critical approach to diversity in an international setting can promote the professional and personal development of students. The workshop includes practical exercises in communication and interaction with international students.

By the end of the course, participants will have developed an understanding of how to appropriately address diversity in international teaching settings and will be able to design effective teaching and learning processes.

Participants will:

• explore internationalization and diversity in academic teaching and learning settings,
• discuss the challenges and benefits of teaching in an international context,
• consider how teaching can accommodate student diversity,
• practice interacting and communicating with international students,
• develop ideas and strategies for addressing existing diversity in their own teaching.