Set the Tone – Equitable Teaching

Set the Tone

Get started with Inclusive Teaching in your classroom. The activities below are designed to help you create a foundation for inclusivity in your classroom. By creating guidelines for discussion, welcoming the use of gender pronouns and other markers of social identity, or engaging some of the other best practices sourced here, you can begin to set a tone of inclusivity in your space. Visit the Inclusive Classrooms section of this site for further practices and materials.

Practical Steps for Inclusive Teaching

This resource guide provides practical ways for instructors to get to know students as individuals, design inclusive course content and material, allow multiple ways to demonstrate learning, and integrate a variety of student engagement techniques (SETs).

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Discussion Guidelines

This resource offers samples of inclusive discussion guidelines. Setting up expectations for discussion with your students at the beginning of the term can be useful in creating an environment conducive to inclusivity, lively discussion, and classroom community building.

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