Lost in Translation? Find instructions and support for multilingual teaching and curriculum work
Sometimes it can be hard to find the right information, so we have gathered a few support pages and services that include information about support and resources for multilingual teaching. Hopefully these tips will give you a general idea of the available services, or at least point you in the right direction when you need them.
In Teachers handbook
On Teachers handbook Applying the language guidelines to teaching | Aalto University The first part of the instructions is aimed at all teachers for the implementation of teaching and the use of languages in daily teaching. The second part is intended to support, in particular, programme directors and the heads of majors. The last part is particularly intended to support the vice deans for education and other education management staff in developing the education portfolio. At the end of these instructions, you can find term definitions as well as links to the guidelines that the present instructions are based on.
When planning your own teaching see also from Teachers handbook Tools and tips for multilingual teaching | Aalto University. This page includes pedagogical and technical information how to support simultaneous use of multiple languages in a multilingual course, how to design a multilingual workspace in MyCourses, how to subtitle your teaching in real time, what multilingual lecture slides look like, or how to ensure that key concepts are clear to everyone regardless of language. There are multiple solutions, and you can also invent them yourself and share them with colleagues.
Support and training for teachers
You can Book a Group Training for teaching staff | Aalto University This training introduces key tools and practical methods that support multilingual teaching at Aalto University. You will learn about the tools available for preparing multilingual course content, such as translating text or files, creating captions or subtitles for videos, and organizing language versions on MyCourses.
Tips on how to create multilingual courses with MyCourses – OPIT some practical instructions how make course space in MyCourses multilingual. See also MyCourse instructions MyCourses: Multilingual teaching
And finally you can contact the pedagogical and digipedagogical support in your school, MyTeaching support service or Book a specialist session service to support your course. You can find all contact information in Teachers handbook page Services and support for teaching
