Table 3 The relationship between themes and their categories
Theme | Category |
|---|---|
Complex teaching and learning relationships | Supervisor pressure and responsibility re IS performance |
Knowing how to help students | |
IS problems on placement are challenging and complex | |
Adjusting to working in different systems, with people from different cultures | |
IS manage added complexities and pressures | |
Conceptions of international students as learners | Attitudes, behaviours, values and expectations as learners |
Students are individuals | |
General professional skills | |
Student communication skills for professional practice | English language competency |
Professional Writing | |
Social and interpersonal skills | |
Communication skills impact multiple competencies | |
Positive mutual learning relationships | IS inform my teaching and practice |
Cultural exchange, learning and enrichment | |
Positive experience | |
IS working positively with clients from CALD backgrounds | |
Clients assist IS learning |