CHAPTER 8: My Personal Contributions to Crossover Pedagogy: Coteaching As an International Cosmopolite

Being a bilingual and multicultural global citizen, my life experiences help me to be a resilient philosopher, intuitive scholar, and passionate educator. The term crossover in music means combining different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience, as Robert mentioned in the second chapter. Crossover education combines the strengths, perspectives, and pedagogies of both faculty and administrators. The genre of music I contribute to my coteaching, coauthoring, copresenting, and coconsulting with Robert and others represents an ensemble of staff-administrator perspective as well as instructional set to a tempo of the quarterlife cadence.

As the associate director of student diversity programs at Champlain College in Vermont, I supervise professional residential life staff, provide after-hours emergency support for residential students, design and facilitate educational programming, and train student staff on protocols, procedures, and programming. At the same time, I teach Mandarin Chinese at Champlain College and coteach two elective graduate courses each year on the philosophy of meaning-making and ethics of helping relationships at the University of Vermont.