Intercultural communication has been identified as a cross-cutting competency within the field of international education. Developing intercultural skills is essential for those who support international students and scholars. Developing Proficiency in Intercultural Communication is a four-part NAFSA e-Learning Express Course series, which provides professionals within the field the opportunity to strengthen their skills and experience in order to become more successful in their work.

Express Courses Included in this Series:

• Foundations of Intercultural Communication
• Intercultural Adjustment and Adaptation
• Communicating Across Cultures
• Culture and Identity

Many offices rely on student staff or volunteers to provide advising, mentoring, and programming to their student populations. While providing invaluable support, these students must also gain skills and training that will prepare them for future global careers. In this NAFSA e-Learning Seminar, participants will learn strategies for delivering impactful and effective student staff training. Discover ways to better prepare your student staff or volunteers for their responsibilities and the situations they will come across. This seminar will also provide examples of programs from international student services and education abroad offices that focus on helping them develop global leadership and intercultural competencies.

Fully revised and updated, the book tackles the vital issues involved in English language testing. Computer-based and other alternative testing methods, ethical considerations, and the challenges of assessing test validity are among the topics covered.

Engaged international experience is a critical element in building current and preservice teachers’ global competency and cross-cultural skills. However, not all teacher education programs leave room for international experiential learning opportunities.

Faculty and students in the sciences, technology, engineering, art, math, and design disciplines (STEAM'D) are expected to possess global competencies that will prepare them to succeed in their increasingly globalized fields as well. Explore models of integrating global learning into the curriculum and co-curricular activities of the STEAM'D fields to address world problems and learning goals.

This is the third session in Series III of Architecture for Global Learning and is part of the Fall Group:Global Learning Theory at Work. Learn about our other Series III Fall Group sessions: Designing Curriculum for Global Learning and Relating Research to Global Learning.

This AGL session provides examples of the new ways international educators and employers are identifying and developing students' global competencies; those that 21st century graduates are expected to have as they transition into career paths in an evolving, global marketplace. Presenters focus on examples from different settings. Faculty, career center advisors, and administrators from any discipline concerned with the development of global learning that addresses these labor market requirements will benefit from this session.Student/Retiree members should login to see special pricing.

This is the recording of the fourth session in Series III of Architecture for Global Learning and is part of the Spring Group:Global Learning for Your Goals.

This AGL session complements our previous session, Global Learning for 21st Century Workforce Development and explores examples of global learning integration into nontraditional career post-secondary and higher education environments.

This is the career education that will effectively prepare students for the coming wave of high-growth industries responding to changing local and global circumstances and necessities. These include: Information Technology (IT), tourism, health, customer service, and more. Administrators and faculty working in community colleges, career technical education, associate's programs, and similar fields will benefit from this session.

Foreign language proficiency and cross-cultural understanding should, ideally, go hand in hand. However, foreign language programs do not always successfully incorporate global learning practices into curriculum and miss the opportunity to help students develop global perspectives. Presenters will discuss their research and practice into the deep learning relationship between foreign language instruction and intercultural competencies.