scholarly journals Peers to Peers: Developing a Student-Coordinated Conversation Partner Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Aaron ◽  
Carmen Cedeño ◽  
Elisabeth Gareis ◽  
Lalit Kumar ◽  
Abhinaya Swaminathan
Keyword(s):  
Student Leaders ◽  
Intercultural Relationships ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Faculty Advisors ◽  
Successful Student ◽  
Similar Program ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Conversation Partner ◽  
Meaningful Interaction ◽  
Repeated Contact

The lack of meaningful interaction between domestic and international students is a persistent concern in international higher education. Conversation partner programs are a promising measure to promote the rich and repeated contact necessary for the development of intercultural relationships and communication skills. This article describes the process of launching and managing a successful student-coordinated conversation partner program with no or minimal funding. The five core team members (two faculty advisors and three student leaders) explain why they created or joined the program, their responsibilities, what worked, what was challenging, and what they recommend should other institutions want to start a similar program.

scholarly journals Exploring the Roles and Facilitation Strategies of Online Peer Moderators

2019 ◽  
pp. 379-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qunyan Maggie Zhong ◽  
Howard Norton
Keyword(s):  
Online Discussion ◽  
Student Leaders ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collective Inquiry ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Online Discussion Board ◽  
Peer Facilitation

Whilst peer facilitation is deemed to be a beneficial alterative strategy in an asynchronous online discussion, a review of the literature indicates that previous studies have primarily focused on the instructor as the facilitator. Inquiries into the roles that student facilitators perform and strategies they deploy to promote meaningful dialogues and participation in a student-led online discussion board have not been widely explored. Using posted messages of seven student facilitators in a peer-moderated online discussion forum, this study aimed to address the gap in the literature. Content analysis of the data revealed that the student moderators played four major roles during the discussions: 1) a knowledge constructor who actively engaged in a collective inquiry and contributed to a deeper understanding of a subject matter; 2) a team builder who expended considerable efforts to create group cohesion to achieve their learning objectives as a team; 3) a motivator who encouraged and inspired team members to engage in and contribute to the discussion; 4) an organiser who managed and monitored each phase of the discussion and orchestrated the subsequent group oral presentation. The findings suggest that assigning students to lead online discussions is an effective strategy to foster learner autonomy and nurture student leaders. The paper concludes with pedagogical implications and directions for future research.

scholarly journals Intercultural Interaction in English: Taiwanese University Students’ Investment and Resistance in Culturally Mixed Groups

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402094186
Author(s):  
Shu-Wen Lan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Reflective Journals ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Local Students ◽  
Mixed Groups ◽  
Repeated Contact

Despite increased diversity on campuses worldwide, research has documented a lack of intercultural interaction among university students. Culturally mixed groups have been found to be a promising means of promoting the rich, repeated contact necessary for intercultural interaction, but hardly any studies of local students’ perceptions of such groups have been conducted in the newly internationalized universities in Asia. Through the lens of an expanded model of investment, this study analyzes reflective journals and interviews with Taiwanese college students to examine their perceptions and experiences of culturally mixed groups. Findings indicate that the majority resisted non-native to non-native speaker intercultural interaction in these groups. This resistance was driven by their pro-standard English ideologies, traceable to the earliest stages of their English education, which promoted native-speaker models and unrealistic imagined communities of native-like speakers.

scholarly journals The Value Of Webcams For Virtual Teams

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Olson ◽  
Frank Appunn ◽  
Kimberly Walters ◽  
Lynn Grinnell ◽  
Chad McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Team Process ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Content

The latest low-cost technology solutions provide practical and reliable video options form standard personal computers using the Internet. By adding video to an established and geographically dispersed team process, this exploratory research tries to establish the experience of participants and perceived effectiveness of the team. Building on the literature, this qualitative research performs a content analysis design on a text transcription of weekly audio logs from participants. This approach analyzes the rich content of team members to discover the relevance of differing elements within trust, technology, and effectiveness find support. By understanding the influences of adding video to teams, leaders, and managers should be able to make informed decisions regarding the adoption of video for each participant. The attitude evolution regarding the use of technology over a period of six weeks provides further considerations for deployment.

scholarly journals Knowledge Asymmetry in Action

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (53) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Stable Condition ◽  
Intercultural Relationships ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Knowledge Asymmetry ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Agriculture Water

<p align="LEFT">This article forges a connection between knowledge asymmetry and intercultural communication to challenge extant understandings of knowledge asymmetry as a static and stable condition that infl uences the processes and outcomes of interactive encounters that promote learning. The article draws its empirical material from ethnographic fieldwork at a training course on climate change that involved the participation of development practitioners, policy makers and civil servants working in broad professional arenas such as engineering, agriculture, water management and urban development in Sri Lanka, Kenya, Egypt, Bangladesh, Uganda, Tanzania, Vietnam and Denmark. The material is represented in the form of ethnographic vignettes to demonstrate knowledge asymmetry ‘in action’: how knowledge asymmetry is far from a static and stable condition, but rather how it emerges and disappears as participants summon, articulate, dismiss, ridicule, ignore or explore the rich pools of their culture/knowledge differences during the training course interaction. The article aligns itself to Barth’s (2002) conceptualization of culture as knowledge and to contemporary understandings of intercultural communication that privilege sensitivities to the webs of geo-historical relations and macro power and economic asymmetries that structure and inform intercultural relationships. The article also emphasizes the relevance of seeing knowledge asymmetry as a concept-metaphor (Moore 2004).</p>

scholarly journals SUPPORTING ENGINEERING STUDENT LEADERS TO INFLUENCE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE THROUGH A CO-CURRICULAR LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Daniow ◽  
Mike Klassen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Student Leaders ◽  
Student Government ◽  
Leadership Programs ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Student Club ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Campus Activities

Abstract – Engineering students develop leadership skills and identity through campus activities such as student government, clubs and design teams. We developed a program to enhance experiential learning of student club leaders related to organizational leadership.  In this paper, we examine elements of this program related to the topic of organizational culture, a concept that has received little attention in engineering education.  Students reported making use of program learning to implement and influence impactful structural and process changes in their organizations. This paper reports on the results of this teaching approach with hopes of informing and inspiring other leadership programs that aim to leverage the rich learning environment that student clubs provide.  

Attitudes of Interdisciplinary Team Members Toward Speech-Language Services in Public Schools

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lou Tomes ◽  
Dixie D. Sanger
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Psychologists ◽  
Elementary School Principals ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
State Area

A survey study examined the attitudes of interdisciplinary team members toward public school speech-language programs. Perceptions of clinicians' communication skills and of the clarity of team member roles were also explored. Relationships between educators' attitudes toward our services and various variables relating to professional interactions were investigated. A 64-item questionnaire was completed by 346 randomly selected respondents from a two-state area. Classroom teachers of grades kindergarten through 3, teachers of grades 4 through 6, elementary school principals, school psychologists, and learning disabilities teachers comprised five professional categories which were sampled randomly. Analysis of the results revealed that educators generally had positive attitudes toward our services; however, there was some confusion regarding team member roles and clinicians' ability to provide management suggestions. Implications for school clinicians were discussed.

Maximizing Expertise and Collaboration to Support Students With Brain Injury: A Case Study in Speech-Language Pathology

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1267-1282
Author(s):  
Jessica Salley ◽  
Sarah Krusen ◽  
Margaret Lockovich ◽  
Bethany Wilson ◽  
Brenda Eagan-Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Medical Setting ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Team Members ◽  
School Activities ◽  
School Based ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Specialized Education

Purpose Through a hypothetical case study, this article aimed to describe an evidence-based approach for speech-language pathologists in managing students with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly within a formal statewide-supported school-based brain injury team model, such as the BrainSTEPS Brain Injury School Consulting Program operating in Pennsylvania and Colorado. Conclusion Upon transitioning from the medical setting back to school, children with TBI present with unique educational needs. Children with moderate-to-severe TBIs can demonstrate a range of strengths and deficits in speech, language, cognition, and feeding and swallowing, impacting their participation in various school activities. The specialized education, training, and insight of speech-language pathologists, in collaboration with multidisciplinary medical and educational team members, can enable the success of students with TBI when transitioning back to school postinjury ( DePompei & Blosser, 2019 ; DePompei & Tyler, 2018 ). This transition should focus on educational planning, implementation of strategies and supports, and postsecondary planning for vocations or higher education.

The Need for Nurse Training to Promote Improved Patient-Provider Communication for Patients With Complex Communication Needs

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora Downey ◽  
Mary Beth Happ
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Provider Communication ◽  
Nurse Training ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Patient Provider Communication ◽  
Communication Needs

Abstract Hospitalized patients across the age continuum often present with complex communication needs (CCN) due to motor, sensory, cognitive, and linguistic barriers they may experience during their admission. Although hospitals recognize the need to enhance communication to improve quality and safety for all patients, the emphasis has been primarily on improving ”care coordination” amongst the health care providers the patient encounters across all points of admission. Most hospitals have yet to focus on improving the patient-provider communication experience, especially for patients with CCN. However, this population no longer can be ignored, as new standards mandate efforts to improve communication for patients with CCN. Nurses, as the team members responsible for continuous care during hospital stays, and speech-language pathologists, as communication disorders specialists, are positioned distinctively to facilitate patient communication and prevent miscommunications between patients and care providers. This article highlights the need to enhance the patient-provider communication experience for patients with CCN. We review the state of nurse training for patients with CCN, discuss the role speech-language pathologists can play in developing and implementing nurse training protocols, and outline basic elements nurse training modules should include.

Food for Thought

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caryn Easterling
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Clinical History ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Expected Outcome

Our professional American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) guidelines state, if a speech-language pathologist suspects on the basis of the clinical history that there may be an esophageal disorder contributing to the patient's dysphagia, then “An esophageal screening can be incorporated into most [videofluoroscopic swallowing studies, or] VFSS” (ASHA, 2004). However, the esophageal screen has not been defined by ASHA or by the American College of Radiology. This “Food for Thought” column suggests deglutologists work together to determine the procedure and expected outcome for the esophageal screen so that there is acceptance and consensus among the multidisciplinary team members who evaluate patients with dysphagia.

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