Community Engagement Training Day 2018
Cost: $20.00 Registration essential.
Time: 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Dates and Venues:
· Dunedin: 29th August - St David’s Lecture Block, Otago University
· Napier: 6th September - EIT, 501 Gloucester St, Taradale, Napier
· Auckland: 20th September - Sorrento, Cornwall Park
· Palmerston North: 3rd October - IPU
· Wellington: 6th November - Rutherford House, Victoria University
· Nelson: 22nd November - NMIT, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson
Please check the ISANA NZ homepage for updates: http://www.isananz.org.nz/ or email isananz@gmail.com if you require more details.
Time: 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Dates and Venues:
· Dunedin: 29th August - St David’s Lecture Block, Otago University
· Napier: 6th September - EIT, 501 Gloucester St, Taradale, Napier
· Auckland: 20th September - Sorrento, Cornwall Park
· Palmerston North: 3rd October - IPU
· Wellington: 6th November - Rutherford House, Victoria University
· Nelson: 22nd November - NMIT, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson
Please check the ISANA NZ homepage for updates: http://www.isananz.org.nz/ or email isananz@gmail.com if you require more details.
Overall Aim:
To assist community and student groups in facilitating pastoral support and social connection for international students and their families through community engagement:
A. Awareness
B. Building Bridges
C. Communication
D. Development
To assist community and student groups in facilitating pastoral support and social connection for international students and their families through community engagement:
- By developing connectivity amongst international student support services, local community and international students;
- Through greater awareness of opportunities for community engagement and more effective communication of these opportunities;
- Enabling campus international support services, local communities and international students to enrich the student experience through effective engagement.
A. Awareness
- Theoretical underpinning of community engagement
- Knowing your international student body and own local communities
- Understanding resources, opportunities, diversity and settlement
- Exploring attitudes critical to developing community relationships
- Developing cultural literacy
B. Building Bridges
- Identifying connections for successful community engagement
- Building bridges amongst key players in campus & community
- Developing a support group to catalyse community engagement
- Providing activities that build community within a diverse student body
- Exploring intercultural skills and competence
C. Communication
- Communicating information regularly and relevantly
- Identifying what works and what does not
- Content of communication Intercultural communication strategies for community engagement
D. Development
- Tailoring frameworks for developing and organising in own contexts
- Identifying what needs to be done and who is ideally placed to do it
- Developing people resources within campus and community
- Achieving change and continuity of programmes
- Sharing case studies and networking connections
Training Schedule
8.30 am Registration and Coffee & Tea
9.00 am Introductions and Awareness
9.50 am Building Bridges
10.40 am Morning Tea
11.00 am Communication
11.50 pm Lunch
12.50 pm Development
1.40 pm Ideas assessment and preliminary planning for programmes
2.30 pm Arrangements for funding applications, options for follow-up and mentoring
3.00 pm Evaluation and Close of Day
8.30 am Registration and Coffee & Tea
9.00 am Introductions and Awareness
9.50 am Building Bridges
10.40 am Morning Tea
11.00 am Communication
11.50 pm Lunch
12.50 pm Development
1.40 pm Ideas assessment and preliminary planning for programmes
2.30 pm Arrangements for funding applications, options for follow-up and mentoring
3.00 pm Evaluation and Close of Day