Professional Development for Teachers Educators working with people from other cultures face an array of communication issues, which range from cultural differences in learning styles and classroom participation to teamwork. Teachers are also finding that their teaching styles - which are culturally defined - may require some adaptation to facilitate the learning of students from around the world. The Centre for Intercultural Communication (CIC) provides educators and school administrators with a wide selection of courses to choose from, designed to meet your time constraints and need for current knowledge and skills. Sample Programs Our three-day interactive Course Skills for Teachers in Multicultural Classrooms offers a unique opportunity to enhance your problem solving and conflict resolution skills to effectively reconcile diverging views among culturally diverse people. Topics Topics include: Building Relationships Across Cultures Intercultural Problem Solving Cross-Cultural Adaptation Learning Styles Across Cultures Motivation and Feedback We can promote learning and teaching environments that build on diversity and benefit from different points of view. One way is to enhance educators' communication skills. Another is to benefit from the Experiential Learning Style Model on which the Centre for Intercultural Communication Global Teachers programs are based, recognizing that people learn best through experience. The model is core to our three-week practice-based Global Teachers courses and outlines the processes of learning, change, and growth that occur when learners reflect on their observations following an experience. Modules Modules include: Foundations of Intercultural Communication Intercultural Communication Skills Learning and Teaching Across Cultures The Impact of Culture in E-Learning Internationalizing the Post-Secondary School International Academic Forum Workplace Diversity Building Multicultural Teams Multicultural Forum Understanding Canadian Culture About the Centre for Intercultural Communication The Centre for Intercultural Communication (CIC) at the University of British Columbia is proud to offer a wide selection of Executive and Professional Training programs to assist professionals to communicate effectively across ethnic and organizational cultures and to teach them how cultural differences can positively influence the conduct of international business and cross-cultural interactions, emphasizing participants' ability to analyze, assess, and interpret cultural variables, and to work in a specific culture as well as in many cultures. Using these insights, participants in our programs learn how to break down the conceptual, theoretical, and practical boundaries limiting our ability to understand and work with people from around the world.

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