Peer Teaching & Learning Fosters Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning

Through Campus-to-Campus Connections, Peer Teaching & Learning (PTL) participants expand relationships across the eleven campuses within New England by coming together during the Winter Interim session to study, teach, and interact across cultures throughout the United States and worldwide.

Campus-to-Campus Connections (C2C) offers a dynamic opportunity to connect and share with PTL participants in Vermont and New Hampshire and across international cultures. C2C is designed to strengthen cross-cultural understanding, global perspective, environmental consciousness, and disability culture awareness through educational, communication, and travel exchanges. Participants come together in person at C2C gatherings, travel to each other’s campuses for site visits, and connect through innovative mediums offered by communication technology like teleconferencing, making video films, and social media. As with all PTL programs, the participants create, implement, and sustain campus connection activities. C2C promotes the awareness that campus participants belong to something bigger, in this case, PTL’s network. The power of this realization and the actual development of cross-cultural friendships, social networks, and collegial relationships are significant benefits to all involved.