Teaching for transition and diversity

Teaching across learning and teaching cultures

Transitioning to tertiary study can be confronting and challenging for all students. They have to become familiar with a new culture of learning and teaching, and the language of their discipline area. Students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds face particular challenges in that they have to learn new patterns of behaviour, adapt to different teaching pedagogies, and acquire new cultural and discipline knowledge, often in a second or third language.

This resource gives you practical advice, strategies and resources for dealing with the following: