Study Toowoomba International Education Staff Professional Development

Understanding and Engaging International Students

Professional development for Study Toowoomba and regional staff

International students arrive with enormous hopes and often equally powerful fears. When those fears are misunderstood, they can appear as disengagement, avoidance or unexpected behaviour.

This FREE professional development session provides practical tools to better understand and engage international students.

Event includes morning tea.

VENUE - B Block Room 102 - USQ Toowoomba (at the Art Gallery function space)

Wednesday 17 June | 9.30-1.00pm

Communicating Better and Designing Events Students Actually Attend

Different students engage in different ways. Understanding behavioural styles can dramatically improve communication and participation.

This session introduces EDISC behaviour profiling and explores how staff can:

• recognise different behaviour styles

• communicate more effectively across cultures

• design student events that attract and engage a wider range of students

• move beyond the challenge of the same students attending every event.

Designed for academic, administrative and student facing staff working with international students across the Toowoomba and regional education sector.

Your speaker - Anita van Rooyen - Founder and Chief of Awesomeness - Student Confidence

Anita van Rooyen is an award winning confidence coach and human behaviour specialist who has worked with more than 15,000 students across Australian universities and education providers.

Her programs focus on the psychology behind student behaviour, helping staff and students build confidence, engagement and resilience. Anita is the creator of Australian Government funded best practice confidence programs designed to support student wellbeing, retention and success.

A former shy person herself, Anita is known for delivering practical, engaging sessions that translate behavioural science into tools staff can immediately use with students.