Faculty Development Workshop
Planning and Pedagogy: Avoiding Discipline Problems while Abroad

Presenters:
Jim Lucas lucasjam@msu.edu, Ph.D., Undergraduate Education, Office of the Provost
Julie Friend friendju@msu.edu, J.D., International Studies and Programs

Date: Friday, January 29, 2010
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM
Location: Spartan Room C, Cross Roads Food Court, International Center
RSVP: Amy Fekete fekete@msu.edu

Description: Faculty and staff increasingly report challenges related to dealing with student behavior, motivation, and attitude while abroad. If you struggle with keeping your study abroad program from reverting into a Spring Break on the beach, you should attend this workshop sponsored by the Offices of Study Abroad, Undergraduate Education, and the Education Abroad Faculty Learning Community. The session will discuss how you can use experiential and student development theories to enhance your program before, during, and after travel to enhance student learning and minimize problems. The session will also offer practical advice about how to trouble shoot academic and disciplinary problems and make connections between student behavior overseas and the relevant MSU/OSA disciplinary policies.

Pre-enrollment is reserved for 2009-10 study abroad program leaders and overall enrollment will be capped at 20.

References:

• Barr, R. B., & Tagg, J. (1995). From teaching to learning: A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change, 27(6), 12 – 25.
• Skipper, T. L. (2005). Student development in the first college year: A primer for college educators. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
• DeBard, R. (2004). Millennials coming to college. As published in M. D. Coomes & R. DeBard (Eds.), Serving the millennial generation (pp. 33-45). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Savicki, V. (2008) Experiential and affective education for international educators. As published in V. Savicki (Ed.), Developing Intercultural Competence & Transformation: theory, research, and application in international education.
• Lutterman-Aguilar, A., & Gingerich, O. (Winter 2002). Experiential pedagogy for study abroad: Education for global citizenship. Frontiers, 8, 41 – 82
• Montrose, Lynne. (Winter 2002). International study and experiential learning: The academic context. Frontiers, 8, 1–15.
• Rooney, M. (2002). Keeping the study in study abroad.  The Chronicle of Higher Education, 49(13), A63.

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